Went to this place for an early evening cocktail and food with my friends on a Saturday. The parking scene and the overall area (Linking rd.) where Mumbai Times Cafe' is located irks me for starters....literally a sea of shoppers, with wife and kids tagging along, walking all over the freakin' roads looking at trinkets and roadside clothes......drives me mad!!!
Anyways, once we got there: Ambience was good, drinks and food were strictly okay (we had margharitas, one kebab and one chinese platter), the music and clientele was questionable....commercial songs: lemon tree, tub thumpin', etc....
ran into a kiddo who had gotten drunk for the first time in his life and was over-reacting in the bathroom with his 2-3 other equally naive companions....u know, the usual clutching of the belly, fake attemps to throw up, constant swearing, pouring generous amounts of water on his head. annoying as hell...and then there was this other companion of these juvies who was holed up in the one and only stall that they have for gents to take a leak!!???!! Unbelievable...i just excused myself and came back later.
the outside section which was a terrace was also dicey and looked like a make shift arrangement/under construction. the valet too takes at least 15-20 mins to retrieve your car which is also frustrating.
few things that pleased me at this place was the huge poster with Bombay's skyline on the wall by the DJ which looked v. nice and the fact that they had a lot of TVs with various different channels playing so i could catch up on a little bit of cricket action that i had missed.
siddhster
