Street Food & Khau Gallis in Mumbai

Mumbai invented eating standing up. The city’s own food is street food — vada pav, bhel, frankies, sandwiches, kebabs — and it is organised into khau gallis, eating lanes that belong to a particular street and keep particular hours.

Every area has one. The lanes below are the ones people travel for, but the stall outside your own station is usually as good, and the queue tells you which one it is.

Name	Where	What it is known for
Girgaon Chowpatty	Chowpatty	Bhel, sev puri, pani puri, kulfi, on the sand at sunset.
Khau Galli, Churchgate	behind Churchgate station	Sandwiches, frankies and juice for the office lunch trade.
Mohammed Ali Road	Mohammed Ali Road	Kebabs and grills; the biggest street kitchen in the city during Ramzan.
Kala Ghoda and Fort carts	Fort	Sandwich and vada pav carts serving the offices.
Zaveri Bazaar and Bhuleshwar lanes	Kalbadevi	Chaat, juice and farsan in the market lanes.

Name	Where	What it is known for
Dadar station stalls	Dadar	Where vada pav is generally agreed to have been invented.
Ladu Samrat	Lalbaug	Misal and Maharashtrian snacks near the Lalbaugcha Raja pandal.
Lalbaug khau galli	Lalbaug	Busiest in the Ganpati season, when the queues become impossible.
Matunga and Sion lanes	Matunga, Sion	South Indian street snacks and filter coffee.

Name	Where	What it is known for
Bandra Hill Road and Linking Road	Bandra West	Shawarma, frankie, sandwich and chaat counters.
Carter Road and Bandstand	Bandra West	Sea-facing stalls; corn, chaat, ice cream.
Juhu Beach chaupati	Juhu	Bhel, pav bhaji and ice gola on the sand.
Lokhandwala khau galli	Andheri West	An evening lane serving the television trade.
Vile Parle station lanes	Vile Parle East	Gujarati farsan and snack counters.

Name	Where	What it is known for
Ghatkopar khau galli	Ghatkopar East	Entirely vegetarian; one of the largest eating lanes in the city.
Chembur lanes	Chembur	Sindhi and South Indian street snacks.
Mulund khau galli	Mulund West	Gujarati and Jain street food.

Name	Where	What it is known for
Borivali and Kandivali station lanes	Borivali, Kandivali	Vegetarian street food; long evening queues.
Malad Mindspace stalls	Malad West	Office-hours street food.

What to order

• Vada pav, which Mumbai invented in the 1960s outside Dadar station
• Bhel, sev puri and pani puri at Chowpatty at sunset, which is the point
• A frankie — the Mumbai roll, invented here in 1967
• The Bombay sandwich, with its layer of green chutney, cut into triangles
• Ragda pattice and dahi puri, the two most underrated things on any chaat counter

Other cuisines

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