RFK Cuisine · Indian · Mumbai
Best Indian Restaurants in Mumbai 2026
Indian · Mumbai · 7 rooms ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 20, 2026 · Updated June 27, 2026
Mumbai has no Michelin stars — the guide has never set foot in India — and the city does not seem to miss them. What it has instead is range almost no other place can match: a converted textile mill turning out a ten-course tasting ranked among Asia's fifty best, a 1923 Irani café serving berry pulao two streets away, and a Kala Ghoda crab room that London tried to copy and got a star for. These are the seven rooms that show what Indian cooking does best here in 2026, from the modern tasting menus to the institutions, ranked on the cooking, the room and what the bill buys, with the dish to order and how to get a table.
1.Masque
India's most decorated tasting menu, No. 15 in Asia and Art of Hospitality 2026 — book Masque for the benchmark of modern Indian cooking.
Masque, in a stripped-back Mahalaxmi textile mill, is the most decorated kitchen in the city: number 15 on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 and winner of that year's Art of Hospitality award. Chef Varun Totlani, who came up through the kitchen to take it over in 2022, cooks a ten-course tasting built entirely from Indian produce — foraged greens, single-estate ingredients, coastal seafood — with no imported luxury anywhere on the plate. Dishes like smoked pork with Kashmiri chilli and poha, or sunchoke with Mangalorean ghassi, treat regional Indian flavour as the raw material for genuinely original cooking. The Masque Lab seats fourteen for a closer look. Expect several thousand rupees a head before the pairing. For the single most ambitious Indian meal in Mumbai, book well ahead.
Reserve online weeks out; the seasonal ten-course tasting, the smoked pork, and the beverage pairing.
2.Ekaa
Niyati Rao's ingredient-led tasting with no cuisine borders, the city's most adventurous kitchen — book Ekaa for cooking you cannot predict.
Ekaa, in the old Kitab Mahal building in Fort, is chef Niyati Rao's refusal to be pinned to a cuisine. Trained in part at Noma and at The Bombay Canteen, she builds a ten-course menu around a single Indian ingredient at a time — amaranth, a particular chilli, a foraged leaf — and follows it wherever the technique leads, so the food is recognisably of India without being "Indian food" in any traditional sense. The room is small and design-forward, the cooking the most experimental on this list. The ten-course tasting runs around ₹4,500 before drinks, which is remarkable value for the ambition. For the most surprising meal in the city, and a glimpse of where Indian fine dining is heading, book a week or two ahead.
Reserve online; the ten-course tasting and the non-alcoholic pairing, which is as inventive as the food.
3.Trishna
India's most famous seafood room and the butter-pepper-garlic crab that defined it — book Trishna for the best crab you will eat anywhere.
Trishna, a small, perpetually full room in Kala Ghoda, is arguably India's most famous seafood restaurant, and the dish that made it is the Hyderabadi butter-pepper-garlic crab: a whole crab in a rich, peppery, garlicky butter that the kitchen has spent decades getting exactly right. Around it run koliwada prawns, tandoori pomfret and squad of coastal classics cooked with the same unfussy authority. There is nothing designed about the place — it is fluorescent-lit and tightly packed — and that is the point; the cooking carries the whole evening. London's Michelin-starred Trishna was built in its image. Expect a generous mid-range bill. For the single best seafood meal in Mumbai, book ahead, especially on weekends, and order the crab first.
Book direct; the butter-pepper-garlic crab, the koliwada prawns, and the tandoori pomfret.
4.Ziya
Sea-view modern Indian under the first Indian-origin chef ever to win a Michelin star — book Ziya for polished fine dining with a famous name.
Ziya, on the ground floor of The Oberoi at Nariman Point with the Arabian Sea out the window, is mentored by Vineet Bhatia, the first chef of Indian origin to win a Michelin star, and it is the most polished hotel fine-dining room on this list. The seven-to-ten-course menu, prepared in a glass-walled kitchen, reworks Indian dishes with French technique — and finishes, famously, with Bhatia's chocolate samosa, a dessert that has followed him around the world. It is grown-up, formal and expensive in the way hotel dining is, with service to match. For a special-occasion Indian dinner with a view and a serious wine list, this is the room; book through the hotel and ask for a sea-facing table.
Reserve through The Oberoi; the tasting menu, a sea-view table, and the chocolate samosa to finish.
5.The Bombay Canteen
Regional India reimagined for a great night out, eggs Kejriwal and seasonal thalis — book The Bombay Canteen for the city's most fun modern Indian.
The Bombay Canteen, in the Kamala Mills compound in Lower Parel, took the idea the late Floyd Cardoz founded it on — regional Indian home cooking dressed up for a modern restaurant — and turned it into the most consistently enjoyable table in the city. Under executive chef Hussain Shahzad, the kitchen roams the whole country and the seasons: a famous eggs Kejriwal to start, changing regional specials, a knockout thali, and one of Mumbai's best cocktail programmes alongside. It is lively, design-led and built for a group rather than a hushed tasting, and it does that job better than anyone. Expect a comfortable mid-range bill. For a celebratory dinner that shows off the range of Indian cooking, book online a few days out.
Reserve online; the eggs Kejriwal, whatever the regional special is, and a cocktail from the bar.
6.Khyber
The grand Frontier-cuisine institution, raan and reza kebab under museum-grade art — book Khyber for old-school North Indian done properly.
Khyber, on the edge of Kala Ghoda, is the grand old North Indian and Mughlai institution, open since 1958 and decorated like a small museum, its rooms hung with work by some of India's best-known artists. The cooking is Frontier-style and unapologetically rich: the Raan-e-Khyber, a slow-roast leg of lamb, the reza kebab, dal Khyber and breads from the tandoor, served in portions built for sharing. It is the antithesis of the minimalist tasting room — loud, ornate, generous — and it remains a benchmark for this style of cooking in the city. Expect around ₹3,000 for two before drinks. For a celebratory North Indian feast with serious atmosphere, book ahead and bring an appetite.
Book direct; the Raan-e-Khyber, the reza kebab, and the dal with tandoor breads.
7.Britannia & Co.
The 1923 Irani café and the berry pulao that defines it — go to Britannia for one of the most distinctive plates in the city, at lunch.
Britannia & Co., a 1923 Irani café in Ballard Estate, is not a fine-dining room and never pretends to be — paper menus, old photographs, communal tables, lunch only — but it serves one of the most distinctive dishes in Mumbai: the berry pulao, spiced rice and meat studded with tart Iranian barberries, brought to the city by the founding family's Persian roots. For decades the late Boman Kohinoor worked the floor in person, and the place still runs on that warmth. The dhansak, the salli boti and the caramel custard round out a short Parsi menu. A plate of berry pulao is about ₹800. For a heritage lunch you cannot get anywhere else, go early — it sells out — and order the berry pulao without thinking.
Walk in at lunch (cash-friendly); the berry pulao, the salli boti, and the caramel custard.
How Mumbai eats Indian
Mumbai's Indian dining splits cleanly into two worlds that happen to share a few square kilometres of the old city. At the top is a young modern-Indian movement — Masque, Ekaa, The Bombay Canteen — that treats Indian produce and regional technique as the basis for original, contemporary cooking, with tasting menus and cocktail lists to match anywhere in Asia. Underneath, and just as essential, sit the institutions: the Mughlai grandeur of Khyber, the seafood authority of Trishna, the Parsi heritage of Britannia and the Irani cafés. The city's real luxury is that you can do both in a weekend, often within a single neighbourhood like Kala Ghoda or Fort.
A few practical notes for 2026. The tasting rooms — Masque and Ekaa — and hotel fine dining at Ziya need booking days to weeks ahead and run at fixed seatings; the institutions are easier but still fill, especially Trishna and Britannia at weekends and lunch. Britannia and most Irani cafés are lunch-only and cash-friendly, so plan around them. Tipping of around ten percent is normal where service is not already added. The monsoon (roughly June to September) is glorious for coastal seafood but check hours, and the cooler months from November are peak season. For the wider city, use the full Mumbai dining guide, and compare the cuisine across the region on our best Indian worldwide pillar.
Where not to look for it
Skip these for the best of Mumbai Indian
The five-star hotel buffets, for the cooking. Several luxury hotels run sprawling Indian buffets aimed at tour groups and business travellers. They are convenient and safe, but they flatten the regional specificity that makes the rooms on this list worth the trip. If you are staying in a hotel, book Ziya à la carte or cab out to Trishna instead of grazing the buffet.
Britannia, if you want dinner or a quiet table. It is one of the city's great rooms, but it is lunch-only, cash-friendly, communal and often sold out of berry pulao by mid-afternoon. Do not build an evening around it — go early for lunch, and save the tasting-menu rooms for dinner.
Frequently asked
What is the best Indian restaurant in Mumbai?
Masque, in a converted Mahalaxmi textile mill, is our pick and the city's most decorated kitchen: number 15 on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 and winner of that year's Art of Hospitality award. Chef Varun Totlani cooks a ten-course modern Indian tasting built entirely from Indian produce, foraged and farm-sourced, with no imported luxury. For a different kind of modern tasting, Ekaa in Fort runs chef Niyati Rao's boundary-less ten-course menu for around ₹4,500. Book Masque for the benchmark and Ekaa for the most adventurous cooking in town.
Are there Michelin-starred restaurants in Mumbai?
No. The Michelin Guide does not cover India, so no restaurant in Mumbai — or anywhere in the country — holds a Michelin star, however good it is. The benchmark here is Asia's 50 Best Restaurants, where Masque sits at number 15 in 2026, plus the city's long-standing institutions. It is worth saying that Indian chefs win stars abroad: Vineet Bhatia, who mentors Ziya at The Oberoi, was the first chef of Indian origin to earn one, and London's Trishna, inspired by the Mumbai original, holds a star of its own.
Where should I eat seafood in Mumbai?
Trishna, in Kala Ghoda, is the answer and arguably India's most famous seafood restaurant. The dish to order is the Hyderabadi butter-pepper-garlic crab, a whole crab in a rich, peppery butter that the kitchen has been perfecting for decades; the koliwada prawns and the tandoori pomfret are close behind. It is a small, busy, no-frills room where the cooking does all the work, and it is the restaurant that inspired the Michelin-starred Trishna in London. Book ahead, especially at weekends, and go hungry.
How much does dinner cost at Mumbai's best Indian restaurants?
The range is wide. The modern tasting menus are the splurge: Masque runs to several thousand rupees a head before drinks, and Ekaa's ten-course menu is around ₹4,500. Ziya at The Oberoi is hotel-priced. The institutions are far gentler: a feast at Khyber lands around ₹3,000 for two, and Britannia & Co.'s legendary berry pulao is about ₹800 a plate. Mumbai is one of the few cities where a world-ranked tasting menu and a 1920s Irani café sit a short cab ride apart, so you can spend a lot or a little.
What is berry pulao and where do I get it?
Berry pulao is a Parsi dish of spiced rice and meat studded with tart Iranian barberries, and the place to eat it is Britannia & Co., a 1923 Irani café in Ballard Estate. The recipe came from the founding family's Iranian roots, and for decades the late Boman Kohinoor worked the floor in person. It is a heritage room rather than a fine-dining one — paper menus, old photographs, communal tables — but the berry pulao is one of the most distinctive plates of food in the city. Go at lunch; it often sells out.
More Indian, by city
More from RFK
Browse the full Mumbai dining guide, compare the global field on the best Indian worldwide, read the verdict on Asia's-50-Best Masque and the seafood at Trishna, plan a table to impress a client, or open the full RFK cuisine index.
Restaurants for Kings is reader-supported. Some reservation links are affiliate links with OpenTable, Resy or Tock; we earn a small commission at no cost to you, and a link never buys a place on a ranking. Editorial scores and ranking order are independent of any commercial relationship. See our ranking methodology.