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Cafe Excelsior - In Cafe Excelsior’s 100 year journey, the place has catered to generations of office goers, the young and the old. The cafe also gets its fame courtesy it’s proximity to one of the oldest single-screen theatres in the city—Novelty (now called Mukta A2 Excelsior).
Established over a century ago, the cafe is now run by the third generation owner Ardeshir Mazkoori who is named after his great grandfather, the original owner of Excelsior cafe. When Mazkoori’s great grandfather first moved to Mumbai from Iran, he worked at nearby cafes to raise money before he started Café Excelsior in 1919 with his brother. Back then, they only had a section of the place hence they would make up for the lack of space by serving meals at the cinema hall. Over the years they have expanded the menu and added some quintessential Parsi dishes such as keema pav, salli boti and more. Mazkoori’s father also manned the kitchen while managing the cafe.
- Snacks
- Services of a Travel Buddy
- Private Transfers
- Tea and Coffee
- Personal & Shopping Expenses
- Alcoholic Beverages
This tour is designed to experience the vintage Irani culture of consuming Tea. Irani cafes were introduced to Mumbai by the Parsi community, descendants traveled from Persia. These cafes are old and Heritage for the ever-busting Maximum City, some older than a century.
Irani cafes once dotted every corner of the street in Mumbai, with time and development hundreds of them shut shutters. Presently there are a handful of cafes left in the city.
In this tour, we have handpicked four of the best Irani cafes in Mumbai, these cafes give a brief insight on Mumbai culture, a peculiar cuisine that evolved with time and gave a distinct flavor of cosmopolitan Bombay.
Your Travel buddy will tell you all the legends around this cafe and how these survived the test of the time.
You get to taste some of the best delicacies of these cafes as well, which are included in this tour.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
