Best Restaurants in Fort, Mumbai
The 16 best restaurants in Fort, Mumbai: Italian restaurant, South Indian, Vegetarian, Vegan, Indian Breakfast, Parsi. Ratings, price ranges, opening hours and what to order.
About Fort
The commercial heart of colonial Bombay and still the best-preserved Victorian Gothic and Art Deco precinct in the city, which is why UNESCO listed it. Offices and law courts by day, and a dense run of Irani cafes, bookstalls and old bars that have been feeding the same streets for a century.
- Getting there
- CSMT on the Central and Harbour lines, or Churchgate on the Western line. Both put you within a ten-minute walk of most of it.
- When to go
- Weekday mornings for the buildings, Sunday for empty streets and photographs.
Known for
- The Victorian Gothic and Art Deco ensemble
- Kala Ghoda galleries and the arts festival
- Flora Fountain and the pavement booksellers
- Irani cafes that have not changed in decades
Tip. Almost everything worth seeing here is within a twenty-minute walk. Start at CSMT and finish at the Gateway.
Where to eat in Fort, by occasion
Breakfast and Irani cafes
- Cafe Excelsior: A century-old Irani cafe near CSMT for kheema pav and bun maska.
- ANNA Idli: South Indian breakfast: idli, dosa and filter coffee.
Seafood
- Trishna: The Kala Ghoda seafood restaurant famous for its butter garlic crab.
- Mahesh Lunch Home: The Mangalorean seafood restaurant open since 1977, for crab, prawn ghee roast and neer dosa.
A special meal
- Ekaa: A long, ingredient-led tasting menu from chef Niyati Rao, with a serious cocktail list.
- Americano: A small, much-booked Italian restaurant and cocktail bar in Kala Ghoda.
- The Clearing House: European food and cocktails in an elegant room at Ballard Estate.
North Indian and Mughlai
- Copper Chimney, Kala Ghoda: North Indian kebabs and curries in Kala Ghoda.
- Punjab Grill: Punjabi grills and curries in Kala Ghoda.
- Ustaadi: Mughlai biryanis and tandoori near Crawford Market.
Cheap, quick and a beer
- Cannon Pav Bhaji: The pav bhaji stall opposite CSMT that has fed the station since the 1970s.
- Farhang Restaurant: Mughlai and Chinese food near the docks.
- Cafe Military: A Parsi cafe that is as much a beer joint as a restaurant, for kheema ghotala and salli boti.
On in Fort
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Satish Gujral 100: The Modernist Returns
A centenary retrospective of artist and architect Satish Gujral bringing together more than a hundred works across painting, sculpture, drawing and mixed media along with personal archives, curated by Pramod KG and returning his work to the city where his career began.
All restaurants in Fort
Americano
ANNA Idli
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Cafe Excelsior
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Cafe Military
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Cannon Pav Bhaji
Copper Chimney, Kala Ghoda
Ekaa
Farhang Restaurant
India restaurant
Mahesh Lunch Home
Punjab Grill
The Clearing House
The Goose and Gridiron
Trishna
Ustaadi
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Yazdani Bakery & Restaurant
Things to do in Fort
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT)
A working railway station that is also a UNESCO World Heritage masterpiece
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
Mumbai's grand museum: Indus Valley seals to Mughal miniatures under an Indo-Saracenic dome
Crawford Market (Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Mandai)
A Victorian produce market with friezes by Rudyard Kipling's father
Flora Fountain (Hutatma Chowk)
The 1864 fountain at the crossroads of the Fort's grandest Victorian streets
Jehangir Art Gallery
Mumbai's best-known public art gallery: free, ever-changing, and the heart of Kala Ghoda
Kala Ghoda Art District
The crescent of galleries, cafés and heritage streets that hosts Mumbai's biggest arts festival