Bade Miya
Rated: Poor
based on 11 reviews
Tulloch Road, Apollo Bunder, Behind Taj Mahal Hotel, Colaba, Mumbai
22848038, 22851649
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Jul 10, 2007
You Get What You Pay For - F%@*#ing Indigestion!
Call me finicky, but I generally avoid eating meat off the streets - you never know where it came from, how it's been stored and what type of bugs it may be carrying. I figure there is no reason to invite gastro-intestinal trouble. I am doubly conscious about this during the monsoons.
Having said that, I agreed to going to Bade Miya's against my better judgement last week. Before any allegations of hypocrisy are flung at me, let me say that it was late, I was famished, I had knocked back several vodkas at Busaba so my judgement was clouded and most importantly, nowhere else would serve us a quick bite before bed.
Put succinctly, Bade Miya's is a dump, pretty much on every level imaginable! Here's why...
Ambience: If you don't come in a car, you will more than likely be seated with total strangers on tacky patio furniture situated a moist, craggy sidewalk under a drippy eave of the roof overhead (I realize it's July, but that is no excuse!). Even more aggarvating - be prepared to be hovered over by other patrons waiting their turn for seating.
Hygiene: I cannot say for sure when the health department has last been there to do an audit but from the looks of things, I would say not anytime in this millennium. The food is cooked right on the road with an open sewer flowing by. The veritable menagerie of cats and dogs that call this lane home are more than happy to scavenge for scraps in the "kitchen" at Bade Miya. Add to this the swarms of flies and other insect life and you have the total picture.
Service: The waiters/seaters seem to come in 2 flavors - rude/inattentive and super chatty/over-bearing. Both these "flavors" leave a lot to be desired as far as dining experiences go.
Food: On the face of it, the food tastes OK. People seemed to be wolfing down their food with wild abandon (us included). We ordered buna ghosht, chicken tikkas and a couple of butter chicken rolls which got inhaled in under 15 minutes - I'm thinking this is more to do with the fact that most of the patrons are drunk, hungry and liable to eat most anything than with the quality of the food itself.
Given the low hygiene standards and general lack of oversight ordering at Bade Miya is a bit like a game of Russian Roulette - one REALLY cannot be sure of it's origins. Order chicken and you may end up getting crow; order mutton and you may be served dog. What I got along with my butter chicken roll was a very upset stomach!
Price: Very affordable. All our food and a few soft drinks set us back about 350 bucks. "Not bad," some would say. To me, however, that's a lot to pay for an upset stomach that I did not even want in the first place!
Overall: HIGHLY avoidable...now don't say you have not been warned!
