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Mumbai (Bombay) and Maharashtra Restaurant Reviews

As Mumbai grows exponentially, so do its restaurants. Among Indian food you'll find kebabs and tandoori food—meat, bread, cottage cheese, and vegetables cooked inside a clay oven. These dishes, often found on menus and served with Mughlai (a variety of Muslim cuisine) and Punjabi cuisine, are by far the most popular food in town. Also popular, and closely related to Mughlai food are the typically meat-heavy dishes from the North-West Frontier, the area of undivided India that's partly in modern-day Pakistan. Another dish likely to pop up on menus is Gujarati vegetarian thalis—combination platters that are a little oilier than those from elsewhere in India. You may also encounter some Jain food, which is also vegetarian but cooked without root vegetables, such as onions and garlic. Jains try to avoid all destruction of life, and eating such vegetables destroys both the entire plant and any microorganisms that might be living on it. Seafood from the Konkan coast—from Maharashtra south through Goa all the way to Mangalore, in Karnataka—is also a favorite in Mumbai. More »