The old Colaba Causeway remains the same as it was 50 years back. The same ramshackle buildings, the same old buses ploughing through sultry conditions, the same deserted stores where the only buzz is that of flies and not to forget the same old restaurants serving cuisines that people in Mumbai have grown up on. Each food joint has its own singularity, though filthy but totally comforting.
Colaba Causaway is located in the southern part of Mumbai, earlier known as Old Woman’s Island because the place was constructed in 1838 and the two islands were joined to Mumbai. The place is embellished with many heritage structures like National Gallery of Modern Arts (NGMA), Regal Cinema, Khusrow Bagh, Gateway of India and Sasson Dock. The Colaba Causeway is also known as Cultural Square of Mumbai and quite famous among tourists from different parts of the world.
Apart from heritage flavour, Colaba Causeway is much known to locals for various culinary magic. Camy Wafers opposite to Kailash Parbat restaurant is a spicy and sweet delights. Whoever tastes the onion khakhras or kalakand will always remember the forever. The methi khakhras at Camy are the best, but need to check the timing as methi produces much heat in the body. The world of snacks brings people to Theobroma – a relatively recent Causeway bakery, so tiny that there is no space for your stomach to expand. Immensely popular from Byculla to Chinchpokli. Or at least from Breach Candy to Cuffe Parade. They do chocolate in very form, from brownies to pastries to brittle. Innovative ideas and top quality ingredients have made this place quite the winner.
Unfamiliarity is what the Causeway rules. The place is visible with everyone from different nationalists, touts, and tourists, beggars and hookers, branded stores and emporiums with mannequins frozen in the early 1950s. Add to the buttom-pinchers and drug dealers as you negotiate the broken footpaths and almost plunge into an open sewer.
Causeway was built by the British, a road to the southernmost islets of the archipelago from the Fort. Sepia-tinted photos show a narrow causeway, stretching out towards Colaba, with water on both sides. Soon these seas had been reclaimed, leaving this connecting road high and dry. The only sign that waves once lapped against both its shores remains in the name. The word Colaba Causeway would roughly signify the stretch between Regal Theatre and Sassoon Docks. Lined on both sides with stores and restaurants, this was, in its heyday, Bombay’s shopping paradise. Gradually, the world of retail shifted to Breach Candy, and then further, to Bandra, Juhu and the malls of Bombay’s suburbia. Causeway stores stayed frozen in time, the dust of years barely stirred by their old fans. Budget tourists descended in droves, but did little more for Causeway than litter its footpaths with hawkers peddling the ethnic Indian experience, from inlaid boxes to kurtas and kolhapuri chappals. Causeway was sinking, back into the sea from which it rose.
Synopsis - Indian Food, Indian Exotic Cuisines, India Best Food Experience
Colaba Causaway is located in the southern part of Mumbai, earlier known as Old Woman’s Island because the place was constructed in 1838 and the two islands were joined to Mumbai. The place is embellished with many heritage structures like National Gallery of Modern Arts (NGMA), Regal Cinema, Khusrow Bagh, Gateway of India and Sasson Dock. The Colaba Causeway is also known as Cultural Square of Mumbai and quite famous among tourists from different parts of the world.
Apart from heritage flavour, Colaba Causeway is much known to locals for various culinary magic. Camy Wafers opposite to Kailash Parbat restaurant is a spicy and sweet delights. Whoever tastes the onion khakhras or kalakand will always remember the forever. The methi khakhras at Camy are the best, but need to check the timing as methi produces much heat in the body. The world of snacks brings people to Theobroma – a relatively recent Causeway bakery, so tiny that there is no space for your stomach to expand. Immensely popular from Byculla to Chinchpokli. Or at least from Breach Candy to Cuffe Parade. They do chocolate in very form, from brownies to pastries to brittle. Innovative ideas and top quality ingredients have made this place quite the winner.
Unfamiliarity is what the Causeway rules. The place is visible with everyone from different nationalists, touts, and tourists, beggars and hookers, branded stores and emporiums with mannequins frozen in the early 1950s. Add to the buttom-pinchers and drug dealers as you negotiate the broken footpaths and almost plunge into an open sewer.
Causeway was built by the British, a road to the southernmost islets of the archipelago from the Fort. Sepia-tinted photos show a narrow causeway, stretching out towards Colaba, with water on both sides. Soon these seas had been reclaimed, leaving this connecting road high and dry. The only sign that waves once lapped against both its shores remains in the name. The word Colaba Causeway would roughly signify the stretch between Regal Theatre and Sassoon Docks. Lined on both sides with stores and restaurants, this was, in its heyday, Bombay’s shopping paradise. Gradually, the world of retail shifted to Breach Candy, and then further, to Bandra, Juhu and the malls of Bombay’s suburbia. Causeway stores stayed frozen in time, the dust of years barely stirred by their old fans. Budget tourists descended in droves, but did little more for Causeway than litter its footpaths with hawkers peddling the ethnic Indian experience, from inlaid boxes to kurtas and kolhapuri chappals. Causeway was sinking, back into the sea from which it rose.
Synopsis - Indian Food, Indian Exotic Cuisines, India Best Food Experience
