Desert le le from Le 15

A place like Le15 stands out in a town where every street has at least one restaurant, 2 bakeries and 3 snacks and farsan outlets, and numerous vada pav stalls - Le15 is a blind choice for most of those, who cant sacrifice on taste when they want to snack on some yummy bites. 

This tiny little store has so much to offer that it's beyond awesome. Right next to Phoenix mills is the ultimate heaven for anyone who has the smallest sweet tooth. Inside Good Earth, Raghuvanshi Mills Compound, Lower Parel, Mumbai is this small cake heaven.The cupcakes here are the best I've eaten so far.My favourite being the Red Velvet followed by Belgian & Nutella. You may find its price to be slightly steep but as the saying goes that if u want quality,get ready to spend some extra bucks. The macaron's are also great. They have other seasonal desserts too ... Fruit tarts , fruit pastry's.

This one is for those who seriously appreciate their desserts and enjoy the experience of making these bits of pure heaven! Above everything, the attention to detail and the effort to make one feel at home...
and the cheesecakes... it doesn't get better or simpler than this!!! Kudos!! Keep going!!!

Marathi Jevnavar PRAKASH

Prakash Shakahari Upahaar Kendra located at Balkrishna Sadan, Gokhale Road North, Near Shiv Sena Bhavan, Dadar West. Prakash Snack Centre, this restaurant is unique in so many ways. The restaurant has stuck to its Maharastrian menu and is good to go for both snacks and meals. At the cash counter, you are greeted by a Burrp Certificate and an enlarged article about this restaurant which was printed in The New York Times. People always prefer to order the thali peeth here, which is a flat bread made of flours of different grains and is generally filling. The restaurant also serves the typically Maharastrian cuisine of Kanda pohe, batata wada, puri bhaji and other dishes too and all of them are worth trying as they are all made well and taste great! Top off the food with the drink Piyush or masala milk which is popular among the guests. The food is very reasonably priced. Go to Prakash for a unique experience of Maharastrian food by quaintly dressed (shorts, shirts and caps) waiters who don't talk much but let the food do all the talking. After eating as much as you can stuff [a maximum of 3 items + Piyush / Masala Milk], the bill will surely around Rs.200; Value for Money. After you are done eating, the bill is presented to you on a yellow piece of paper written in pencil; a practice followed for many years now. 

Galti se Locha ho gaya...

Manchurian Locho available at: Jani Khaman And Locho House, Shop No.11, Star Trade Centre, Sodawala Lane, opposite Chamunda Circle, Borivali (West) which is priced at  Rs. 40 is one of the best Gujrati, Indian and Chinese combination.

Have you come across any recipe which is a mistake and yet served with style and fashion across the country? If not, let me take an opportunity here to introduce you to ‘Locho’, which is a bad mistake made good through the spirit of entrepreneurship. Incidentally,When a cook in Surat added too much water to his khaman(Gujrati farsan, all mumbaikars would be aware of this term,rest plz Google!!) batter, it became the base for locho. He did not have guts to accept the fault and carried on steaming the same batter. To his surprise the goofed up recipe was loved by people and was soon in demand. ‘Locho’ which literally means ‘mistake’ in Gujarati thus derived its name from here. At Jani, which recently opened in Mumbai after years of success in Surat, locho has gone the way Mumbai’s street dosa and bhel have – it’s got a Chindian version, with a topping of Manchurian or Szechuan sauce along with butter, chaat masala, sev, and onions. For an additional Rs10, they’ll add cheese.

Raste se jaa rahaa tha... Bhel puri Gupta ki kha raha tha...

Channa Chor Bhel and Fried Dal Bhel which is available at: Gupta Bhel Wala, on the pavement outside Khyber and Fabindia in Kala Ghoda at a thrown away price of Rs.20 each. 

This third-generation bhel and pani puri vendor, who sets up shop right next to Sanjay Singh’s sandwich stall, sells over a dozen varieties of chaat. If you manage to resist his regular bhel and half-hot-half-cold ragda pani puri, try his fried channa chor (chana chor) bhel or fried dal bhel, in which chana chor and fried dal respectively replace kurmura or puffed rice. The bhels even travel well, as slightly moist chana chor or fried dal doesn’t taste bad at all. Douse the heat on your palate at either the nariyal pani wala or the nimbu pani wala, both of whom have stalls close by.

Fresh and Honest Coffee

Fresh and Honest has been an honest choice since the days when I started hating Nescafe and Bru for the chicory powder added in it which spoils the taste of coffee. They have these big black and decker coffee machines with bean holders and coffee grinding mechanisms inside them, and they install 'em all over the place, selling fresh-ground coffee cappucino for cheap, along with other coffee, tea, milk and soup offerings. 

My favourite at this mumbai outlet is the evergreen cappucino. at 8-30ish am when you reach churchgate and you have to drag yourself out of bed at 6:30 to get to work in time, this cappucino is a real eye opener. If i am really hungry, well, I go for Horlicks or for hot chocolate which fills up my stomach a bit and is not too heavy on my pockets also.
The things that differentiate them from a Bru or a Nescafe dispenser? Well, for one, they use fresh milk and hence your milk/tea/coffee is creamy and milky enough. The Bru and Nescafe dispensers use a water and milk-powder mix to create the flavor which is watery at all times. F&H also use fresh crushed beans and hence the coffee is stronger, tastier, yummier!

Anna ki "Chai" Dimaag aur Mood fresh kar jaye...

“Ek chai ki kimmat tum kya jano sunil babu” all those tea lvers would agree with me that not everyone understands the worth of having tea, and the importance it holds in tea-lovers life. We tea-holics can judge and do judge every cup of cutting tea we have at different tea-vendors

All the office goers near Mogul Lane, Opposite New Era Fabrics, Matunga West, depend solely on Anna’s chai to make a fresh start to the hectic day.  Anna makes the best chai but beware, he is fond of sugar. So tell him to make the tea with less sugar. Added advantage of this tapri (road side stall) is that you get to play with Piglini - the local cat and Dancy - the cat dog.

Shake it make it Babieee

·         Bachelorr’s (yes they have an extra ‘r’ and is not any spelling mistake, not by me at least) situated at 45, Sattar Sea View, Chowpatty (Girgaon), Mumbai is one of the best juice parlors in Mumbai . The place is equipped up with people after all the restaurants in the town usually close down. Bachelorr's, Chowpatty Sea Face, It's been in business since the 1940s and has generated a loyal following, who gather by the roadside kiosk during warm evenings, perched on car bonnets and in open boots.  

    

      The place is famous for their milk shakes and the chocolate shake is the best. Even the mango cream that I had tried once was good. The cream-and-strawberry milkshake is a classic, but it also churns out numerous chocolate variations – from Classic Chocolate and Black Gold Premium to Liquid Marble – along with a host of fresh lime, coconut water and lychee juices. 

But then not too forget that it’s too heavy on your wallet also.