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Mumbai's street food has made its way into kitchens of restaurants in the city, including five star hotels. [3] [27] [28] In fact, restaurants in various parts of the world have incorporated Mumbai's street food into their menu cards. [24] [29] Homegrown fast food companies that serve street food in Mumbai have been launched in recent years. [30]
The Table is a restaurant at Colaba, Mumbai, India, known for serving San Francisco style globally inspired cuisine. It was established by Jay Yousuf and Gauri Devidayal in early 2011. It was established by Jay Yousuf and Gauri Devidayal in early 2011.
The Leopold Cafe was founded in 1871 by Iranis (a term used for Zoroastrians in Mumbai who arrived in India in the 19th century, as opposed to "Parsis") and named after King Leopold of the Belgians. These Zoroastrian Iranians came to India in the late 19th and early 20th century, and many of them opened restaurants now often termed Irani cafés ...
A dabbawala (also spelled dabbawalla or dabbawallah, called tiffin wallah in older sources) is a worker who delivers hot lunches from homes and restaurants to people at work in India, especially in Mumbai. The dabbawalas constitute a lunchbox delivery and return system for workers in Mumbai.
Maharashtra has 29 Municipal Corporations, 232 Municipal councils and 125 Nagar Panchayats.. These urban local bodies are governed by Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, 1949, [1] Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 [2] and The Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965.
The Mumbai Suburban Railway is an offshoot of the first passenger railway to be built by the British East India Company, and is also the oldest railway system in Asia.The first train was run by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (now Central Railway) between Bori Bunder (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus) and Thane, a distance of 34 km (21 mi), on 16 April 1853 at 15:35.
The last direct current (DC) suburban local train ran on the Harbour line on 10 April 2016. The special train left Kurla at 11:30 pm and reached CSMT at 12:15 am. The iconic yellow-and-maroon DC local trains had their first service on 3 February 1925, when the first electric local ran between CSMT and Kurla ran on the Harbour line.
The fourth air-conditioned rake of the Mumbai Suburban Railway and the first of the Central Railway was commissioned on 30 January 2020 to serve the Trans-Harbour line. [5] However, in January 2022, the Central Railway ceased operating the only air-conditioned train on the line, citing a poor response from commuters due to low frequency and ...