Rude Food by Vir Sanghvi: Fishing for compliments

But until Mumbais fish restaurants made this the preferred way of ordering crab (around the early 1990s, I think) Indians were not used to this..

When I shot at another famous Mumbai seafood restaurant, Trishna for Somebody Feed Phil last month, the only crab we saw had been killed, shelled and brought to the table as a mound of butter-soaked flesh...

I argued in my show (the one the crabs took over) that the seafood craze in Mumbai was based not on any love of authentic South Indian (or coastal to use the trendy term) food but simple excitement about fresh fish, the larger the better..

Ananda retired from the President, flirted with a Thai restaurant that was polished off by the business slump during the Pandemic and then resurfaced a fortnight ago, starting an extended residency at Bharat Excellensea (geddit?) one of the first coastal restaurants in the Fort area of Mumbai which I remembered from the 1990s...

On the other hand, restaurants that serve more authentic Malvani food have now found a new popularity though very few of them are in the centre of South Mumbai..

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