New restaurants, bars and cafés in Mumbai, with opening reports from the past 180 days. Explore Coming soon for the next arrivals.
New restaurants, bars and cafés in Mumbai, with opening reports from the past 180 days. Explore Coming soon for the next arrivals.
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27 recent openings
CinCin’s Goregaon restaurant brings handmade pasta, Neapolitan pizza and Italian aperitivo to Oberoi Garden City.
The kitchen’s focus on handmade pasta and regional Italian preparations gives this new suburban branch a clear dining proposition.
Krish Shah’s duplex restaurant pairs Blanco’s daytime room with the more intimate Noir, using Indian flavours across a globally influenced menu.
Sol kadhi ceviche, Bombay Wellington and other cross cultural plates give this new Bandra kitchen a distinct culinary idea.
An all day restaurant in a green Versova bungalow, with globally inspired cooking and Indian influences. A neighbourhood address for a relaxed meal in Aram Nagar.
A new bungalow restaurant that brings a quieter dining setting to Versova, with a contemporary menu extending beyond coffee and desserts.
Grey Soul’s Kala Ghoda flagship pairs its Indian coffee programme with espresso, pour overs and a compact food menu.
A roaster’s café where bean selection and brewing have as much attention as the room. A useful addition to a Fort coffee walk.
A vegetarian restaurant at Eskay Resorts with a tropical setting and a menu of global dishes, alongside cocktails. The space takes its design cues from the five elements.
A new Borivali option for a leisurely vegetarian dinner, combining a full restaurant experience with cocktails and a distinctive setting.
Boojee’s new café at One BKC brings its coffee and all day dining to a larger Bandra East address.
A new BKC stop for a relaxed café meal or coffee, with a distinct storefront at One BKC.
A Japanese izakaya above Linking Road with sharing plates, vinyl listening and karaoke in a red booth dining room.
The new Bandra outpost brings Japanese comfort food and music together on the 14th floor of Mansionz One.
Manuel Olveira and Mickee Tuljapurkar bring La Panthera to the Eros building, with Spanish pintxos, tapas and slow fermented pizzas.
A new Churchgate dining room with a clear Spanish influence, suited to an aperitivo and plates to share.
The roaster’s Island 2.0 café pairs a dedicated brew bar with vegetarian all-day food.
A coffee-led opening with a roastery background and a full daytime dining menu.
Sanjana Arora’s dessert shop centres on scoop cakes, cookies and soft-serve sundaes.
A focused sweet stop from the chef behind La Folie, with nostalgic bakes at the centre of the menu.
Araku Valley coffee anchors this Bandra café, with food and bakes throughout the day.
A destination for exploring coffee provenance and different brews alongside a café meal.
Specialty brews meet dishes such as thecha grilled cheese and a Kejriwal dosa.
This specific new branch appears in Paperboard’s opening edit and has a food menu beyond standard café staples.
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 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.
An open kitchen centred on freshly made pasta and Neapolitan pizza.
A focused pasta-and-pizza address with a recent Curly Tales review and Paperboard endorsement.
Karishma Sakhrani’s menu explores sweet and savoury brioche, including butter-chicken French toast.
A specific culinary idea makes this tiny café more than another coffee launch.
Chef Christopher Fernandes builds the menu around sandwiches, inventive egg dishes and substantial vegetarian plates.
A small kitchen with its own bread programme and a clear food focus.
Bruno Ferrari and Joao Pedro bring regional Italian cooking to heritage Amarchand Mansion.
Regional Italian cooking with a clear point of view: Abruzzo cheese dumplings, hand-folded lamb pasta and an extensive wine selection in a heritage Colaba dining room.
An all-day diner combining Indian flavours with pizzas, breakfast plates and desserts.
The deliberately playful food programme earned it a place in Paperboard’s new-opening edit.
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.
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.
A cocktail bar from the Barbet & Pals team built around punch.
A specialist drinks concept with recent Paperboard endorsement.
Asian cooking with Indian ingredients, from robata dishes to dim sum.
A distinctive pantry and a fresh Paperboard recommendation support its inclusion.
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.
Hunger Inc.’s sandwich shop expands into a new Lower Parel dining room.
The bakery-and-sandwich specialism earns this branch a place alongside formal restaurants.
Pinky Chandan Dixit’s more leisurely interpretation of Soam’s Gujarati food traditions.
A strong option for regional vegetarian dining in a restored heritage building.
A boulangerie with an open bakehouse and locally inflected pastries.
Technical baking and Paperboard’s revisit recommendation make a useful food-led option beyond Bandra.
