VEGETARIAN & THALIS, Mumbai

The local veg restaurants such as Shiv Sagar and Swadesh are the best places to fill up on good and cheap veg food. The clean (!) restaurants are filled with locals having a meal or a snack.

Choice of food includes: Dosas, Pakodas, Upma (my favorite breakfast), Puri Bhaji (my favorite lunch), Idlis, Vadas, varous Chaats, Biryani, and the popular Pav Bhaji. Various desserts, faloodas, lassis, and fresh fruit shakes are also available.

These restaurants are very inexpensive. You can have a meal for under $1 and a big meal for under $2. Good (clean) alternative to street foods. (Idlis start at Rs 16, dosas start at Rs 20, pav bhaji is Rs 40)

Near our Hotel there where a lot of veg restaurant, but in one of this they have a big manu, from south indian dishes to north and mexican too!
But dosa is my prefered......there are several filling, u have to try...I love spinach so I take this one but there are spacy or not, with shees or not....at your choose!

Great ambience and location. After you are done with shopping on Linking road hop on in for a sumptous meal. Its crowded on the weekends, you will have to put down your name at the reception outside and wait for you to be called in when a table gets empty, not a long wait, and its worth it.

Favorite Dish: They serve parathas, Only parathas, with every concievable and imgainable filling possible, and they are all veg. We went in a group of 5 people and all of us ordered a diff paratha and got a taste of them all. Later we flushed down the meal with a generous glass of lassi...ummm yummy!

Try alu parathas (as always) green peas and lassi!

I have been a fan of this tiny place since very long now. If you really want to enjoy this experience, my suggestion will be to board a local train and reach Charni Road. A quaint restaurant awaits your taste buds very close to the station. The place is called “Crystal”. Kheer (a sweet preparation of boiled rice with milk) enthusiasts swear by the kheer you get here. According to patrons of kheer, which I am not, you apparently get world’s best kheer here maybe just next to what your mom might make for you.

I have no idea how old this place is. But it is among the few places which are not jazzed up and you enter a non-descript place with plastic tables and chairs and ceiling fans on the ground floor while the “so-called” mezzanine floor has table fans to do the honours. The mezzanine floor is slightly difficult for people like Xi Shun to fit in, hence the “so-called mezzanine floor” in the statement before. The owner of the place or so I assume is this old gentleman sitting in a white kurta pajama at the entrance. One of the few places which does not play Kenny Gee and plays old hindi movie songs.

Favorite Dish: My favourites are baingan bharta (eggplant mince) with roti (indian bread) or rajma (lentil) chawal (rice) or gobi paratha (indian bread stuffed with spiced cauliflower).

Simple, no-fuss, home – like food which is incredibly reasonable. A meal for two which includes 2 veggies, around 7-8 rotis, raita (A dip made of curd with veggies like cucumber, tomato etc.) and dessert will cost you some 100 bucks. The place has many patrons in the elitist as well.

Its packed for dinner on weekends with people from all ranks of society. Crystal serves only vegetarian food and I am not complaining at all.

A lovely resturant on the 2nd level of the Inorbit Mall in Malad (west). It has an authentic indian decore . The walls got an authentic earthy look designed to look like a wall in a hut in a village. There are clay pots decorating the walls.The veg thali is for about 150/- Consits of poha , idli and sambar, chutney, methi tikkis, dal,a couple of assorted vegetables kadi,papad, khichidi,chappatis,puris rice all unlimited.So remember to starve before you go there to do justice to the food.You get a choice of a sweet dish either aamraas,gulab jamun, mango halva etc.The mean ends with sweet pan yumm

Favorite Dish: The best dish was the Aam raaas (mango pulp) and the methi tikkis (small cutlets )

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This place serves only Gujarati Thalis so there is no choice in ordering what you want but you can select what you want in the thali once you get all the items in it and take more of what you like most amongst the seven different things they offer on your plate in small bowls that make up your thali. The service is unlimited food that is kept on being served to you regardless of how much you have eaten and unless you tell them to stop they will keep on serving you and keep all the bowls full. The place is airconditioned and nicely done up with a lot of old brass pots and artefacts on the walls. Great food and nice ambience with six to eight people all waiting to serve you all the different items continuously till you can have no more!!! Cooked in a very hygeinic way and served in shining stainless steel thalis you are pampered with a lot of good food till you are ready to drop dead with all the good food in your stomach!!! At Rs130 per thali it is a very good priced offer for someone who lives to eat or loves to eat!!! The timings are from 11am to 3pm for lunch and 7pm to 10pm for dinner (Closed on Sunday evenings). All Thaker Bhojanalay tip pictures courtesy: Navinkurian2002@VT.

Favorite Dish: There is only one thing you can order here ..... the Thali!!! It is a plate with a lot of different small bowls with all the different types of dishes served one after the other and kept on being served till you protest and say no!!! The serving is unlimited and continuous so you really have to tell them to stop very firmly if you don't want to waste the food in your plate. There is a lot of vegetables and dal varieties along with the chapati, phulkas, jowar and bajra rotis besides the rice and khichdi that you can try from and then take more once you know which you like or have them all till you are full!!! A glass of buttermilk is also served. There is a sweet dish selection as well with atleast four to five different sweet dishes like Shrikhand, Rasmalai, Rasgolla, Gulab Jamun and you can choose what you want. The water is only served from mineral water bottles. The place has a small dining area so not too many tables out there so come early if you don't want to wait in queue to get in.

Luckily, someone was able to lead me to this small restaurant in the impossibly crowded Crawford Market so I could get my fill of great Gujarati thali. Not fancy, no silverware, and delicious. Check the website to see what's on the menu today!

On a busy day, you may want to call ahead for a table since the place is very small--however, it’s also very casual and I doubt you’d have to wait long in any case. No tourists, not a lot of English spoken, but since this is a thali place you don’t need it.

Favorite Dish: Thali is a particular style of eating that's popular in many parts of India, particularly the south and the west. You don't order anything, just sit down and wait for your big plate (or banana leaf) to get loaded with small quantities of dozens of dishes by the waiters cruising the restaurant. Try not to eat too fast, because those waiters are hovering around waiting for you to finish any item so they can replenish it on your plate! And don't forget that there's dessert at the end! You can really, really overeat in a thali restaurant...take it from one who's done it way too many times.

Rajdhani served us a huge variety of vegetarian dishes: cabbage with peas, kadi (sweetish yogurt-based sauce), khichdi (split peas and rice), sweet masoor dal, mung dal, potato stew, potato samosas, a spicy orange-colored dal, various chutneys and pickled beets, kedgeree rice, plain rice, papads, and four different kinds of breads (sweet small wheat cakes, spicy flat pancakes with herbs, whole wheat chapattis, and puffy rotis fresh out of the pan). One thing I hadn’t seen before was cubes of what seemed to be idli bread, with sesame seeds. We washed it all down with buttermilk and finished up with rasgulla. Wow. Once again, I had to roll out the door.

The restaurant actually has no decor , the area around is not very appeasing but the Food is most amazing and the price .. no one can beat !! for just a Dollar , yes 1$ for an unlimited buffet of Indian food . Which has 2 starters , 4 main dishes , 2 dals , buttermilk , sweet dish , all included . U can also choose from his special sweet dishes - try the shri khand , puran poli (only on wed , sat) . Also ask for his dal bhakri which must be crumbled and had with dal ( the spicier one ) . Also ask for bajri roti which is a special roti made out of Bajra flour ( a kind of grain grown in north india)

Sunday has a special menu - worth trying.

Favorite Dish: jalebi - only on Sun ( when the price increases by 40c )