The best places to eat Bhel Puri in Mumbai

Five places where you can try the iconic Mumbai snack
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Meher Mirza9 April 2018

The one thing you have to do when you visit Mumbai is much on their iconic snack - Bhel Puri.

Below, Meher Mirza reveals the top five places to get your Bhel Puri fix.

Sharma Bhelpuri House

A great place to try Mumbai’s iconic snack for the first time. Here, the bhelpuri (potatoes, onions, puri and puffed rice, and sweet, sour and spicy chutneys spooned over it with sev — hair-thin strands of fried chickpea flour — on top) comes with slivers of mango.

Kamla Bhawan, MG Road, Opposite Municipal Gardens, Vile Parle East

Golden Bhelpuri House

Going strong since 1960, this has shot to prominence for the invention of its “Golden Bhel”; so called because the dish is sluiced with yellow split peas and turmeric.

VP Road, E Block, Sikka Nagar, Girgaon

Bhel Puri

Chowpatty Beach

This is how bhel is meant to be eaten — on a hot summer evening from a shack on Chowpatty beach The beach is thick with bhel stalls; try Jai Jawan.

Swati Snacks

This is bhel in salubrious environs: comfortable seating, an open kitchen, icy A/C and sugar cane juice to drink.

Opposite Bhatia Hospital, Tardeo

Vithal Family Restaurant and Bar

Vithal Khadawala started out as a hawker in 1875, quickly becoming an exceedingly popular bhel vendor. The original restaurant shut; what remains now is this branch, run by one of the founder’s four grandchildren.

AK Naik Marg, Near Mukta Cinema, CS

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