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Submitted by cnb on Thu, 05/10/2006 - 02:16. | | | | |
Summary: Vegetarian place at Chowpatty, Mumbai with a choice of a few of dishes from each part of West/North India
Getting there: From Chowpatty take the right which goes to Peddar Road. Get off opposite Babul Nath Mandir
Don't Miss: Sabudana Wada, Batata Wada
Food Cost: 100-200
Drinks Cost: <50
Description:

Soam is a vegetarian restaurant near Chowpatty in Mumbai opposite Babul Nath Mandir.

It serves a few vegetarian dishes from Maharashtrian, Gujarati, Rajasthani and Punjabi cuisines so that overall you get a good choice if you want to mix and match things and experiment. You don't have a comprehensive coverage of any cuisine but that's not the aim.

 

We started with Batata Wada and Sabudana Wada. They were very nice and made excellent starters.

The one thing which would probably come to mind is that similar stuff may be available at about 1/5th the price in small restaurants and may taste better too. As long as you have that in your head you can't really enjoy this place. The USP of this place is really to give you a taste of a lot of vegetarian cuisines and snacks all under one roof.

You're also paying to eat in an AC restaurant where you get served on shiny metal plates and a leaf.

For the main course we had

1.) Masale Bhat which was very average
2.) Gatte ki Sabzi with Lacchedar Paratha which was decent.

At the end we were still hungry and ordered a Farsan Platter. We thought it would be like conventional Farsan Mart snacks but they had tried some innovative ways of making dhokla, samosa etc which we didn't really like.

Conclusion: Excellent snacks but don't get the Farsan Platter. Average to decent main course dishes.

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