Mumbai
मुंबई
Mumbai closes at 1:30am by law, so the city front-loads: dinner at nine, room at eleven, everything decided by midnight. Bandra is where the interesting music is; Lower Parel is where the money is. The legal drinking age here is 25, and it is checked.
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Open right now
Wednesday 20:31 local
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Rooms published
Saturday
Peak night
25+
Legal drinking age
Asia/Kolkata
Through the night
Peaks at 2 of 2 rooms around 19:00.
The rooms
Ranked by editorial score, weighted with freshness, impact and scene. The method is public.
Bonobo
A terraced Bandra house that has been the reliable centre of Mumbai’s underground for over a decade. Small, unpretentious, consistently the best booking in the city.
antiSOCIAL
A basement built for live music that turned into the city’s most important room for local electronic acts.
Toto’s Garage
A car-repair-shop theme, a jukebox of rock, and the least fashionable good time in Bandra. Unchanged since 1993 and all the better for it.
Slink & Bardot
AER
The thirty-fourth floor of the Four Seasons, open to the sea on every side. Come for the hour before sunset.
Bastian
Kitty Su Mumbai
One of the very few explicitly queer club nights operating at scale in India, and one that takes that responsibility seriously.
Asilo
Soho House Mumbai
The Daily Bar & Kitchen
Raasta Bombay
Tryst
Districts
Where to base yourself, and what each part of the city is for.
Bandra West
4The best small rooms and the best crowd in the city.
Khar
2Bandra’s quieter neighbour, with two of the city’s key live rooms.
Lower Parel
2Mill-land towers. Rooftops and larger clubs.
Worli
2Sea-facing, expensive, and increasingly the late option.
Colaba
0South Mumbai. Older institutions and hotel bars.
Nearby scenes
Worth a train, a bus, or a change of flight.
One night in Mumbai?
Give the concierge your hours, your budget and your sound. Get a route through the city’s venues, with timings and door tips for each stop.