Mumbai Food: The Bandra Project will rekindle your adore event with a suburb

Ribs With East Indian Spices

As we mark a integrate sitting on wicker chairs, opposite a backdrop of a pleasing nightfall and waves kissing a rocks, we are momentarily ecstatic to an dusk on Carter Road. Except that a environment is projected on a screen. In another digital projection, blush-hued bougainvillea flourishing on an earth-toned wall invite us.

Created by Ayaz Basrai of The Busride Design Studio, it celebrates Bandra’s immature pockets. These elements, and a food and splash menu desirous by a suburb, make adult The Bandra Project by PizzaExpress.

Maple Chicken

Manhattan meets Goa
The all-day village bar and kitchen is a pizza chain’s initial hyperlocal restaurant. By year-end, they will launch outlets in Khar and Kamala Mills with a same concept. “Each will be shabby by a neighbourhood. Ayaz designed a initial opening in Colaba. We have a long-term rendezvous with him to synergise a pattern of all outlets,” says Deepinder Batth, COO, Gourmet Investments that operates a sequence in India.

Over acoustic versions of Coldplay and Rihanna tracks, we soak in a Manhattan-meets-Goa vibe of a 3,000 sq ft space, with checkered tiles, colonial-style marble tables, a bar illustrated with designs of old-fashioned bungalows and geometric high-rises [all by designer Pronit Nath] and a dining territory confronting a lotus pond.

Ragi Pancakes

An paper to a East Indian
Drawn adult in conference with several homegrown and general chefs, a cooking menu packs in a accumulation of European dishes, many tweaked with East Indian influences, as an paper to one of a suburb’s many distinguished communities. For example, Ribs With East Indian Spices (Rs 895, all prices disdainful of taxes) facilities smoked pig doused easily in a sharp bottle masala-style massage that we suffer with baked baby potatoes.

A digital projection of Carter Road dance during a restaurant

We bite several tiny plates, sandwiches, sliders and cheese platters. The menu also includes Italian pizza, pasta and risotto that a pizzeria is famous for. We suffer Ragi Pancakes (Rs 395), where crisp, mini ragi discs swell underneath chunks of chorizo; a piquancy turn offset with a lurch of green cream. Spicy And Sweet Aubergine (Rs 475) is a bruschetta-esque tiny image that marries a flavours perfectly, accentuated by charred and obese aubergine and crusty bread. Reminiscent of Bandra’s bakeries is York Fingers (Rs 475), where strips of flaky fritter are pressed with bacon and cheese. We rinse it down with The Fort (Rs 495), a salute to a suburb’s Portuguese fort. The splash is a manly whiskey-based take on a Old Fashioned with a spirit of benevolence from maple syrup.

The interiors. Pics/Bipin Kokate

Maple love
Another categorical that we penchant is Maple Chicken (Rs 745), where fall-off-the-bone meat, glassy with maple syrup and red chillies, plays a delicious miscellany on a tastebuds, accompanied with a tawny potato mash. Even a carnivore in us is full with Mushroom Stroganoff (Rs 745) that explodes with a umami flavours of a fungii, creaminess from a salsa and al dente furious rice.

Ayaz Basrai

Over rounds of a heady Espresso Martini and Boozy Hot Chocolate, Basrai indulges us in sharp-witted gibberish about a film Andaz Apna Apna, and stalking Shakti Kapoor on a flight. As we exit, we realize that this plan may’ve only helped rekindle a adore event with a still-charming suburb.

Opens: on Jul 17, 8 am to 1 am
At: Ground floor, HSBC Bank Building, Pali Road, Bandra West.
Call: 62506800

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