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MUMBAI
KOKO Goregaon: Mumbai’s Luxury Asian Dining Favourite Arrives in the Western Suburbs
For years, KOKO has been one of Mumbai’s most recognisable names in luxury Asian dining. Now the restaurant has expanded its footprint with KOKO Goregaon , a sprawling new address inside Oberoi Garden City’s International Business Park. Designed as a high-energy Asian dining destination in the western suburbs, the new outpost blends Cantonese-Japanese cuisine, immersive design, and a cocktail programme that carries the brand’s signature sense of theatre. For Goregaon, a neigh
1 day ago5 min read
The Nutcracker Powai: Where Dinner Slowly Turns Into Drinks
The Nutcracker Powai has opened in Hiranandani Gardens as the brand’s largest outlet yet, introducing a full bar experience inside a space long known for comfort-first dining. But this is not just another expansion. It feels like the brand acknowledging that its audience has grown up. We went in for dinner. We stayed for drinks. The Arrival: Familiar, But Sharper Evenings in Powai move differently. Office lights switch off in waves. The pavements fill with dog walkers. There’
Feb 253 min read
5 New Cafes in Mumbai Worth Visiting Right Now (2026) | Paperboard
Mumbai doesn't need more cafés. What it needs are the right ones. And in the last few weeks, the city quietly delivered five openings that are genuinely worth leaving home for, whether you're in Bandra, heading to Fort, or making the drive to Andheri West. This is the Paperboard edit. Best new cafes of Mumbai 2026. No filler. Just the five new cafés in Mumbai that have already earned a permanent spot in our rotation. 1. Pardon Our French, Ballard Estate, Fort If you know Po
Feb 235 min read
DELHI
The Agave Room Delhi: A Cocktail Bar Built Around the Five Elements
Delhi’s cocktail culture has steadily evolved over the last decade, but The Agave Room Delhi introduces something altogether different. Tucked inside a quiet, tree-lined neighbourhood, the space is an agave-forward cocktail bar built around tequila, mezcal, and an idea rarely explored in India’s bar scene: drinks designed through the lens of the five elements. Walk in and it becomes immediately clear that this is not just another cocktail bar. The lighting is low and intenti
43 minutes ago5 min read
Second Born Delhi: A Rooftop Bar in GK2 Built for Long Evenings and Easy Conversations
Delhi has a new rooftop bar, and it isn’t in a rush. Second Born Delhi , located in GK2’s M Block Market, arrives with a different rhythm from the city’s usual nightlife. Instead of chasing spectacle, the rooftop bar leans into something quieter and more intentional: long evenings, good drinks, and the kind of conversations that stretch comfortably into the night. Founded by Sangram Singh Samra and Anushka Chaturvedi, the space is imagined as the easygoing sibling to Staple.
1 day ago5 min read
Cavity at Barbet & Pals: Inside Delhi’s Most Immersive Cocktail Experience
Cavity at Barbet & Pals is a new immersive nine-course cocktail and culinary experience in Greater Kailash II, New Delhi, and it quietly changes how we think about a night out. Housed inside Barbet & Pals, this intimate, evolving space moves beyond the idea of a bar and into something far more deliberate and far more personal. Delhi has no shortage of new openings, but this is not another launch with a longer bar counter and louder playlist. Cavity feels like a room you are m
Feb 254 min read
GOA
Vaarta Goa: A Heritage Home Where Indian Street Food Slows Down
There is something quietly unexpected about Vaarta Goa , a new restaurant tucked inside a restored 160-year-old home in Sangolda. In a state known for beach shacks and global cuisine, Vaarta approaches something far more personal: Indian street food, slowed down and given the space it deserves. This is not a chaat counter or a nostalgia themed café. Vaarta Goa approaches street food with care, turning familiar flavours into a dining experience rooted in memory, conversation a
5 minutes ago5 min read
Jugnu Goa, a Destination Dining Experience Tucked Into Assagao
There is a certain moment in Assagao when the light softens, the roads slow down, and dinner stops being a plan and starts becoming a feeling. Jugnu belongs to that hour. Set inside a restored 160-year-old Portuguese villa, Jugnu Goa is not just another restaurant in North Goa. It is an evening that unfolds slowly, one space, one mood, one memory at a time. You arrive through a quiet Assagao lane, past villas that have seen centuries come and go. From the outside, Jugnu keep
Feb 64 min read
Drop Dead Sexy Assagao Opens in Goa, Where You Are the Artwork
The first thing you notice at Drop Dead Sexy is not the bar. It is not the cocktails either. It is the sensation of being looked at, not in a self-conscious way, but in a way that feels oddly affirming. This new immersive art bar in Assagao does not ask who you are or why you came. It assumes you belong. It assumes you are already worthy of attention. Drop Dead Sexy is imagined as a living artwork, a space designed by Siddharth Kerkar where the guest is not a visitor but t
Jan 224 min read
BANGALORE
CAVORE Bengaluru: A Dining-First Nightlife Destination on Residency Road
Bengaluru’s dining and nightlife scenes rarely overlap in the same room. Most places lean clearly toward one or the other. CAVORE Bengaluru, located on Residency Road in the heart of the city, attempts something different, a restaurant that slowly transforms into a nightlife destination as the evening progresses. It begins as a place for long dinners and unhurried conversations, and by late evening the room shifts in energy, with music, cocktails and a packed bar taking over
1 day ago4 min read
ParTTwo Bengaluru: Level Up to ParTTwo on Lavelle Road
There is a particular kind of evening that only central Bengaluru can deliver. You begin on Lavelle Road, the traffic thinning just enough to suggest possibility, and end up two floors above Vittal Mallya Road at ParTTwo Bengaluru, a 70-seater restaurant and cocktail bar that refuses to be boxed into either category. In a city that often asks you to choose between a serious dinner and a spirited night out, ParTTwo quietly proposes something else. Come without labels. Stay for
Feb 195 min read
MISU St Marks Road Brings Elevated Pan-Asian Dining to Bengaluru’s CBD
MISU St Marks Road is the brand’s most design-forward Bengaluru outpost yet, opening at 1Sobha Mall in the heart of the city’s Central Business District. Known for its approachable yet refined take on pan-Asian cuisine, MISU has quietly built a loyal following over the years. This new address feels like a confident step forward, where immersive interiors, a soju-led cocktail programme, and comfort-driven Asian flavours come together under one dramatic roof. St . Marks Road h
Feb 174 min read
HOTELS
Boutique Hotel in Sri Lanka: Waking Up to the Ocean at The Hotel SL
There are many coastal stays that promise sea views. Very few deliver them without compromise. The Hotel SL does something quietly radical for a boutique hotel in Sri Lanka, every single room faces the ocean. No side glances. No partial views. You open the blinds and the beach fills the room before anything else does. I stayed here for three nights at the end of January, and that one detail shaped the entire experience. This is a small, design-forward beachfront stay on Sri
Feb 94 min read
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