2 Best Restaurants in Central Mumbai, Mumbai

Birthed by the Carvalho family in 1908 as a bakery that shouldered supplies to American ships stationed in port, it relocated to its current location in 1935. You can find a reliable selection of baked goods and snacks here.

Once bustling Lalbaug was the beating heart of Mumbai's mill lands and center of its radical leftist political culture. The mills have since folded, but the area is still home to a clot of eateries serving excellent Maharashtrian cooking, and among the best is Ladu Samrat, an unfussy, eminently affordable, but rather threadbare restaurant serving homey vegetarian Maharashtrian snacks.