Mumbai Food: This new Juhu grill brings India on your plate

Motichur and Sitaphal Rabdi Parfait

We can roughly hear a request flags whipping in a cold winds of Spiti Valley as a balmy Tibetan tune welcomes us into +91, a two-week-old grill nearby Juhu Circle. We are now bewitched by a atmospheric restaurant’s art gallery-meets-museum decor. It includes kitschy lanterns and barnis (pickle jars) that are a reversion to a summers when a grandmother would store homemade chhunda in them.

A wall is ornate with an designation of quirky matchboxes from Japan and India (there’s Magic Head too). Another facilities potion cases that reason several artefacts, including a ceramic bust of a stately with a parrot enclosure popping out of his head. Curious, we try to review a poster only as a vast organisation walks in and settles on cushioned wicker chairs by a marble-top tables, and blocks a view. Grudgingly, we spin to a menu.

Onion Bhanavala

Code of conduct
From Andhra-style Rasam to Allahabad Beetroot Tikki, Parsi Style Sali Boti, Gondoraj Duck, Kashmiri Gushtaba Goat Curry and Cumin Sikkim Red Rice, a menu covers many of India, yet limited to renouned fare. Each plate is accompanied by a area formula of a city where it originates from.

We start with Maharashtrian-style Onion Bhanavala (Rs 350) comprising a smoke-stack of non-greasy onion fritters dotted with flecks of dry garlic and coriander chutney. The frail cloaking gives approach to slimey onion stuffing with a sharp flog from a flakes. It resembles a kothimbir vadi, solely a richer version.

Recheado Murgh Tikka

Discover Vengurla
We pierce on to Recheado Murg Tikka (Rs 525) starring succulent, weak duck pieces cooking in a tasty Goan red masala that packs in flavours of peppercorns, cloves and garlic. The charred edges lend them a scrumptious, smoked aftertaste. We rinse these down with Jambhul Karvand Martini (`450), a hat-tip to a exhausted city of Vengurla in south Konkan. We can ambience a grainy hardness of a fresh, honeyed and slight spicy java plum as a concoction, infused with a pulp, caresses a palate.

Rave over rabdi
From a mains, we’re vehement to sequence Kashmiri Gushtaba Goat Curry, yet it’s unavailable. So, we settle for Rajasthani Laal Maas (Rs 625) with Rosemary and Olive Naan (Rs 95). We also call for a potion of Majjiga (Rs 250), as a cautionary extinguisher in box a ambience buds locate glow from a traditional, burning mutton curry. However, this chronicle of laal maas is underwhelming, yet a mutton chunks are intensely tender. We mop adult a runny, mildly-spiced gravy with olive-studded frail naan. The Andhra-style, thick and spiced buttermilk is refreshing.

For dessert, we puncture into a abounding Motichur and Sitaphal Rabdi Parfait (Rs 375) served in a margarita glass. The bottom of sugar-soaked motichur laddoo is layered with thick pistachio-specked sitaphal rabdi, surfaced with a crisp, ghee-fried tuile. The tawny delivery engulfs a senses.

While a large check creates us heedful of an encore, we hear a guest reprimand a waiter, “Every 4 days, we am here, and have attempted many things on a menu. Please make something new.”

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TIME: 12 pm to 4 pm; 7 pm to 1.30 am
AT: Om Satyadeep Apartments, Gulmohar Cross Road 7, JVPD Scheme, Juhu.
CALL: 33715950

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