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BAWRI | EATING OUT

Bawri, It's

Crazy Good!

If you're casing the joint for a superlative Indian
restaurant, doling out rich, contemporary Indian food,
in Bombay, Chef Amninder Sandhu's Bawri it is!

Text: Javed Gaya
I have a superlative Indian restaurant which
am often asked by friends visiting
Bombay from abroad about the best
showcases the best regional cuisines India
Indian restaurant to go to. This is always
is far from being pretentious and snobbish.
a very difficult question, as I try to explain has to offer in charming surroundings, but
to them that there is no such thing as a I will come to this point later.
generic Indian restaurant. The best Indian The restaurant is situated in BKC and
food, in my opinion, is to be found in the is run by Chef Amninder Sandhu. I first
ITC Hotels which offer a variety of different encountered her culinary magic at a very
restaurants from frontier food such as underrated restaurant, Arth, in Khar West,
Bukhara to Awadhi cuisine as in Dum Pukht and was impressed not only by the quality
and South Indian in Dakshin. But these of the food, but the inventiveness of the
are in different restaurants, not under one cooking. Then I heard about her setting
roof. Indian Accent is too experimental and up Bawri in Assagaon in Goa which, by all
overly influenced by the West in terms of the accounts has been a raging success. Given
emphasis on tasting menus, etc. However, the fact that Assagaon has several very
today I can say with some confidence that good Indian restaurants, such as Jamun and
with the entry of Bawri on the Bombay Gunpowder, the instant popularity of Bawri
food scene last December, that we finally has been remarkable.

A huge, warm space, that's Bawri

The freshest of tandoori breads

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