Cocktail bars and restaurant bars in Mumbai, selected for the people, ingredients and ideas behind their drinks.
Cocktail bars and restaurant bars in Mumbai, selected for the people, ingredients and ideas behind their drinks.
places on the shortlist
27 recent openings
Gresham Fernandes reworks Bandra’s food traditions, including East Indian crab curry with croissant pav.
Local culinary history gives the menu a distinct identity; mahua cocktails extend that idea to the bar.
Alex Sanchez’s Italian-inflected cooking meets a bar built around house-made infusions.
A place for a full meal, with the cocktail programme worth exploring in its own right.
Ankush Gamre’s cocktails, including drinks on tap, accompany Varun Totlani’s small plates.
The team behind Masque brings a strong kitchen and an inventive drinks programme to a mill-space bar.
Goan and Portuguese influences run through a relaxed menu accompanied by tropical cocktails.
Regional cooking and a thoughtful bar make it an appealing alternative to a conventional business-district dinner.
A rooftop bar with distinct Yacht Club and Gimlet Garden drinks menus.
The drinks programme earns attention alongside the views from the Four Seasons rooftop.
Chef Sahil Singh’s menu and a cocktail programme by Anonymous Food Labs bring a clear food-and-drinks focus to this intimate dinner club.
Chef Sahil Singh’s inventive small plates meet cocktails by Anonymous Food Labs in an intimate Bandra dinner club. Come for the duck shawarma gyoza and stay for the bar.
A cocktail bar from the Barbet & Pals team built around punch.
A specialist drinks concept with recent Paperboard endorsement.
Jishnu AJ’s cocktails accompany Mohammed Touseef Shamsudeen’s newly refreshed kitchen menu, with fermentation and preservation in the mix.
Fresh menus and a place in Paperboard’s September bar edit make this an address to revisit.
Sachin Kadam’s global menu meets Dimi Lezinska’s cocktail programme.
Paperboard recommends a revisit; Time Out’s 3/5 review is more mixed, particularly on starters.
Sahil Singh’s menu explores Japanese cooking with cross-cultural influences.
A chef-led Asian dining option included in both CNT’s city guide and Paperboard’s revisit edit.
A glasshouse bar in a former textile mill, pairing European flavours and Japanese techniques with crafted cocktails.
Paperboard’s latest Mumbai bar selection brings this established address back into focus.
Asian cooking with Indian ingredients, from robata dishes to dim sum.
A distinctive pantry and a fresh Paperboard recommendation support its inclusion.
Cantonese claypots, dim sum and wok cooking in a restored cinema building.
A distinctive Hong Kong–Mumbai dining idea, with cocktails that carry through the same influences.
Chef Sarfaraz Ahmed’s playful take on Indian cooking, with tableside theatre and inventive cocktails in Santacruz.
The Numbers Within cocktail menu builds personality-inspired drinks around nine numerology archetypes, adding another playful layer to a kitchen that reinterprets regional Indian dishes.
A live-fire kitchen, on-site bakery and cocktails using regional Indian ingredients.
The bar’s migration-inspired programme and the kitchen’s craft give it a clearer proposition than a generic lounge.
A Khar dining room pairing coastal flavours with a bar built around house preparations.
Lab Mag’s opening coverage and Paperboard’s revisit edit provide two distinct editorial signals.
Koki Ito’s highballs and Maaya Takaoka’s sake selection in a music bar above Izumi.
Paperboard’s August revisit edit highlights it as a considered drinking destination.
The original Olive pairs Mediterranean cooking, a courtyard setting and a changing cocktail programme.
A fresh cocktail menu gives this longstanding dinner address another reason to revisit, with signature drinks, reworked classics and thoughtful zero-proof options.
An Italian dining room and mezzanine bar at JW Marriott Mumbai Sahar, with an open kitchen and rustic regional cooking.
The new cocktail menu travels through Italy’s cities and stories. Amalfi’s Costa di Limone combines gin, lemon-thyme, dry vermouth and a touch of sea salt, making the bar a reason to linger over dinner.
A neighbourhood bar and diner whose cocktails explore the stories of Bandra’s villages.
Cocktail Menu 2.0 revisits Chimbai, Pali, Ranwar and Sherly through local ingredients and inventive techniques, giving familiar neighbourhood stories a fresh expression.
Regional cooking and cocktails following the culinary routes between Kabul and Chittagong.
The Adventures on the Grand Trunk Road cocktail menu turns regional ingredients and travel stories into eleven drinks, alongside a kitchen built around the same route.
