Mumbai Food: Six places to conduct to for your 3 am breakfast binge

Chembur’s beginning riser
If we occur to be flitting by Chembur by 4.30 am, and locate a sniff of some creatively baked South Indian fare, chances are that it (the aroma) is emanating from Ravindra Gowda’s temporary setup outward Chembur railway station.

Groups mob a stall; a File Pics, Sameer Markande

The male serves a uninformed accumulation of Poha, Idli, Upma, and Dosa.

All of it churned adult in a early hours of a morning. His elementary though juicy delicacies are discriminating off by 5.15 am.
Who: Ravindra Gowda
Famous for: Poha, Upma, Dosa, Idli
Price: Under Rs 20
At: Outside Chembur railway station.

Versova’s idli guru
In a line right subsequent to Legacy of China grill in Seven Bungalows, which, by a way, is abandoned of streetlights, one can (on many days) mark a male and his cycle, skulking in a corner. This suburban superhero, who’s superpower lies in gratifying a nightly cravings of suburban dwellers — many being road-ripping biker boys of Yari Road — serves adult bubbling prohibited idlis with chutney that he carries around in a enclosure placed on his bicycle. Most people dropping by are regulars, who have been eating here for decades. However, when we attempted to locate him via a really stormy week, he couldn’t be speckled during his common location. Damn you, rains!
Who: The fugitive Idli male
Famous for: Idli
Price: Rs 20
At: Seven Bungalows, Versova.

Vijay preps a Bun Maska before business arrive. Pics/Bipin Kokate

Bun Maska underneath cover
For as prolonged as SoBo peeps can recall, a male station in a dilemma conflicting a footpath, right outward Churchgate Station, has been portion bun maska to inspired midnight folk. Protective of his space, and heedful of reporters and photographers. Although this male refused to let us take any cinema or share information, it doesn’t take divided a fact that his setup sees scores of people from 3 am onwards. A unchanging haunt for midnight commuters, he sets adult a list conflicting Churchgate Station wall, on a footpath, and now, during a monsoons, behind a cosmetic sheet. He also serves adult a occasional bun-jam, adding a hold of benevolence to a fare.
Famous for: Bun Maska
At: Footpath outward Churchgate Station.

Jam-happy mornings
Shukla has been environment adult his list outward a Canteena Juice Centre for a past 9 years. Known to offer adult a breakfast classical — bun maska and jam-bun — Shukla, hails from Allahabad. Every night during 2.30 am, he sets adult shop, and is busy by scores, all of whom penchant a elementary bread-butter and chai combo to means them by a night. Shukla lives above a extract centre with his mother, 5 daughters, and a son. He also sells cigarettes, that adds to his fan bottom among nightcrawlers.
Who: Vijay Bahadur Shukla
Famous for: Bun maska/ jam bun
Price: Rs 11
At: Outside Canteena Juice Centre, conflicting Metro in Colaba Causeway.

Vinod’s chai is a outrageous pull for nightcrawlers

Chai high in Colaba
The “lambi competition ka ghoda,” Vinod, has been environment adult his late-night tea case for 20 years. Vijay and him coexist with any other, only like how Vinod’s chai needs Vijay’s juicy bun maska to be dipped in it. The some-more garrulous of a duo, Vijay forked out that many business who came here during peculiar hours, were foreigners. “Once, we had a abounding NRI male tell me that this was a best chai he had had in India,” he says. chai woke adult this contributor during dawn, all yawns forgotten.
Who: Vinod Upadhyay
Famous for: Chai
Price: Rs 10
At: Outside Canteena Juice Centre, opposite. Metro in Colaba Causeway.

Chandrahas Shetty serves adult Upma-Poha

Poha-Upma party
If you’ve never eaten Poha-Upma done by a Shetty, this man’s creatively done breakfast sweetmeat should be a initial one we should try. Shetty’s Poha-Upma is served prohibited and tasty, and has an authentic South-Indian pepper to it, creation it one of a go-to places in SoBo for creatures of a night. The 26-year-old hails from Mangalore, and has been environment adult emporium here for a past 3 years. “I start creation a Poha-Upma during 2 am, and set adult emporium by 3-3.30 am,” he informs.
Who: Chandrahas Shetty
Famous for: Poha/Upma
Price: Rs 12-15
At: Outside Canteena Juice Centre, conflicting Metro in Colaba Causeway.

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