The Mumbai Top 202026
The twenty rooms we would send someone to in Mumbai this year, in order.
How this list was built
Ordered by NOX editorial score, weighted with Instagram freshness, room impact, scene importance and longevity. An editor can lock any position. See /about for the full method.
The full methodBonobo
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.
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.
antiSOCIAL
A basement built for live music that turned into the city’s most important room for local electronic acts.
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.