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and Talents Club oversee home-style Parsi
H.M.V. was iconic at Kala Ghoda
As young executives, if work got too
boring we sneaked out of the office early
in the evening for a quick movie at either
Strand or Regal. The choice of food in
South Mumbai was just amazing. Chicken
broth and chicken sandwiches at Paradise
towards the end of Colaba Causeway.
A quick beer with work colleagues at
Mondegar which I thought had an amazing
collection of rock music. Not to mention
their wonderful jukebox. A small little
Chinese restaurant called Fredericks, at the
beginning of the Causeway which served
some really good Chinese food although
it wasn’t as well-known as the other well-
known Chinese restaurants in town. If
you wanted to know what the hippies
were upto, there was always Leopold. The
chicken or beef chilli fry with a couple of
beers and hanging out with a few hippies
was a refreshing change. Or Delhi Darbar
for good Moghlai food and Olympia for
a good kheema pav and chai breakfast.
But one of my real favourites was the
Victory Stall at the Gateway of India, Pier
no 1, with a beautiful view of the Bay. The
restaurant had the ladies from the Time
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Food. You could even hear the waves from
the Arabian Sea lap gently on the stone
wall of the pier. We mourned when Victory
Stall had to move out from that wonderful
location.
After enjoying the best of Colaba for three
years, I moved to Churchgate at Vaswani
Mansion opposite the KC College. Not as
interesting as Colaba and the eating places
were a little more expensive because you
had the entire array of restaurants on Vir
Nariman Road from Gaylord, Talk of the
Town, Kamling and the rest. An icecream
sandwich at K Rustom was always a
pleasure. And the hot dog at Bombelli’s.
Then there was the Sundance Cafe right
behind Eros cinema. As a young executive
our post-launch haunt was a cappuccino at
the Ritz coffee shop, which was exceedingly
good.
I think the most enjoyable part of my
career came when I moved to Phirozeshah
Mehta Road in the old Lakshmi Building
right opposite the old HMV studios which
is no longer there.
Yazdani was famous for baida pav and Irani chai
For one, the famous Strand Book Store
was just next door and one could go there
during lunch time and browse through
their amazing collection of books which
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