The Scores
The Restaurant
Hussain Shahzad cooked a year at Eleven Madison Park in New York and ran the pass at The Bombay Canteen before he took over the kitchen at O Pedro, the modern-Goan room the Hunger Inc. group opened in BKC in 2017. The payoff is on the record: Condé Nast Traveller India ranked O Pedro #7 in the country in its 2023 Top Restaurant Awards, and named Shahzad Chef of the Year the same year. This is Goan cooking treated with the seriousness usually reserved for European fine dining — and priced like a midweek dinner.
Order Pedro's ceviche first — cured fish over tamarind, ginger, garlic and chilli, finished with a Bhavnagri-chilli salsa and tempura crumbs, a riff on Goa's fried-fish habit. The prawn balchão arrives with house poee bread to mop up the masala, and Rita's chicken omelette curry is the dish regulars order without looking at the menu. The flavours lean hard into the Goan larder: toddy vinegar, recheado masala, xacuti spice, coconut feni. Dinner runs about ₹2,000 for two before drinks, which is the quiet headline here — this much cooking for this little money is rare in BKC.
The room is built for noise. Warm amber light, blue-and-white Portuguese tile, a central bar pouring the best feni cocktails in the city, and a volume that tells you everyone is having a good night. The soundtrack swings between Goan folk and Bombay indie, and a private room seats sixteen. It sits in the Jet Airways-Godrej BKC Building, behind the frangipani trees — easy to find once you know it is there, easy to miss if you don't.
Best Occasion Fit
Birthday: Book this room for a birthday — the kitchen sends a personalised dessert, the staff know how to mark a moment, and the feni list keeps the table loud and happy. Reserve the private room for parties over ten.
First date: The noise and warmth do the work before the menu lands, and the shared-plate format keeps the conversation moving. Arrive hungry and let the ceviche break the ice.
Team dinner: Long tables, sharing portions, and a staff that handles groups without losing the pace — O Pedro is built for the dinner where the table matters as much as the food. Pre-order a few large plates to keep it moving.
Not For
Not for a quiet, intimate dinner or a delicate conversation — O Pedro is loud by design, the tables are close, and the room runs hot and busy. Take a date you already know here, not one you need to hear across a candle.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is O Pedro worth it? Yes. O Pedro is the modern-Goan room from the Hunger Inc. team behind The Bombay Canteen, and Condé Nast Traveller India ranked it #7 in the country in 2023, the same year executive chef Hussain Shahzad — a Bombay Canteen and Eleven Madison Park alumnus — was named Chef of the Year. Dinner runs about ₹2,000 for two, which makes serious, well-sourced Goan cooking one of the better-value tables in BKC. Go for the energy as much as the food.
How do you book a table at O Pedro? Book direct or through Dineout. O Pedro sits in the Jet Airways-Godrej BKC Building in Bandra Kurla Complex, and weekend evenings fill fast, so reserve a few days ahead for Friday and Saturday and for any group over six. For a party of ten or more, ask about the private dining room that seats sixteen. Weeknights are easier and the room is just as lively.
What should I order at O Pedro? Start with Pedro's ceviche — cured fish over tamarind, ginger, garlic and chilli with a Bhavnagri-chilli salsa and tempura crumbs — then the prawn balchão with house poee bread to mop up the masala. Add Rita's chicken omelette curry and a crab dish if the table is hungry, and drink the feni cocktails, which are the best in the city. Finish with the pastéis de nata.
How much does dinner cost at O Pedro? Plan on roughly ₹2,000 for two before drinks — small plates and Goan mains priced to share, which makes O Pedro genuinely good value for the quality and the BKC postcode. Cocktails and the feni list will push the bill up, but you can eat very well here without overspending. It reads as a celebration room at a midweek-dinner price.
Is O Pedro good for a birthday or group dinner? Very. The loud, warm room, the sharing format and a kitchen that will send a personalised dessert make O Pedro one of the best birthday and team-dinner tables in Mumbai. Book the sixteen-seat private room for larger parties. See our birthday and team dinner guides for more rooms with the same energy.
What Guests Say
The prawn balchão is something I think about regularly. The house bread alone — cooked in the cast-iron pan with a little coconut fat — is worth the trip. O Pedro understands that Goan food is not simple, and it refuses to treat it as such.
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