Ekaa

Every bite was packed with flavor. I ordered the Mac and cheese and it was perfectly cooked — tender, well-seasoned, and beautifully presented. The dessert was also a standout. You can tell they put real care into their ingredients and preparation and ingredients were fresh and prepared with skill. The place itself has a chill vibe, super friendly staff, and great music. Whether you’re going on a date, hanging with friends, or just treating yourself (because you deserve it!), this is the place.

Visited Ekaa and was pleasantly surprised! The menu is refreshingly unique—far from the usual clichés. The food was excellent, the ambiance beautifully planned, and the open, hygienic kitchen adds to the charm. The staff was polite, helpful, and even offered a tour of the thoughtfully designed space. A truly different and memorable dining experience!

Really enjoyed the 'awakening' tasting menu at Ekaa! Different members of the kitchen team explained each dish in detail. The team was very passionate and sweet. They also invited us to tour the kitchen and offered my parents a small token for their anniversary. :) The tasting menu experience easily takes two hours and we are very grateful for the innovative dishes and the hard work behind it. I am sharing in the pictures a few of the dishes and the menu we ate (the pictures are mostly in order). In terms of favorities: we really loved the main dishes with the mushroom risotto and sheet pasta with chickpea cutlet. Not to mention the bite size starters were extremely exiting! At no point did we feel the food was too much or not enough. Despite being a 20 course tasting menu it was just right! We weren't completely in love with the sweets, but maybe that's more on us not having much of a sweet tooth. Small note: we usually don't have leafs that are already eaten by worms. Despite being heavily processed there is always a chance that their is egg residue left behind. One of the leaf dishes did have such leafs. On us pointing it out the chef mentioned that its processed very well after coming from the farm. I would have personally prefered having dishes without them. But understand if that's a choice restaurant makes to keep them in.

Ekaa is a bold and adventurous take on regional Indian flavours meeting global recipes and techniques. Firstly, the ambience is interesting. Very raw and rough place. Not too much work done. First impression feels like you are in an open kitchen where the only thing that matters is the food. Nothing fancy, nothing too extreme. Just a minimalistic, rustic vibe. The open kitchen is super cool, and when you hear the occasional “yes chef”, you feel like you’re part of the restaurant. The service was great. Staff seems smart, attentive, on point, very friendly and make you feel comfortable. Now to the food, first of all, the portion sizes are MASSIVE. We got 5 tapas, 5 mains and 2 desserts + cocktails between 5 people. We could have done with 3 mains. I would recommend the Barracuda starter and the liver starter. These were the best. The quality of food is fresh, extremely innovative, bold and interesting. However, there was not one dish that we would crave. They did mischarge us for an extra drink but immediately removed it when we asked them. We’ll write that down to an honest mistake. Will definitely come back to try other dishes, but perhaps next year.

We did the 20 course tasting menu and in my opinion more than half of the dishes were straight up unpalatable and pretentious. I wouldn't recommend the tasting menu to anyone. The menu doesn’t describe any of the dishes which makes it very unpredictable and a bad surprise. The cocktails are also very subpar.

I rarely leave negative reviews, but our experience at Ekaa deserves honesty — especially given its placement on Asia’s Top 50 emerging & a few outlets. Five of us, including two Mumbai locals, became seriously ill after dining on the “Awakening” tasting menu. One guest even required hospitalization at a private clinic. This wasn’t the usual case of “traveler’s stomach” you can experience in India at times — it was consistent with a bacterial infection, the kind of severe foodborne illness that is exceptionally rare when fine dining restaurants uphold proper standards. This was also the only meal we shared that day, and we had no issues at other restaurants in Mumbai, whether fine dining like Masque or more casual spots like Swathi Snacks. When we raised this with management, the response was extremely disappointing. We were told that another tasting menu table had no issues — although we were in fact the only tasting menu guests that night — and even that food would be “lab tested” three days later, which is implausible for a restaurant that prides itself on daily fresh sourcing. Rather than support and accountability, the approach felt like deflection. There were positives. The bartender and cocktails were genuinely inventive and very good, and the service team’s practice of taking turns to explain dishes from each corner of the table was a thoughtful touch. But the “Awakening” menu itself fell flat. A 19-course progression stretched to more than three hours in a mostly empty dining room, and many dishes felt like pseudo–fine dining experiments that sounded clever on paper but lacked flavor or balance — from a bland tomato jelly to the surprising (and misplaced) use of pop rocks in a savory course. The earlier iterations of Ekaa’s menu may have been stronger, but this one was underwhelming. Ultimately, I don’t believe it makes sense to dine at Ekaa when Mumbai has so many other excellent establishments that deliver both quality and accountability. The scale of illness we experienced was a disaster, and I would never take that risk again. The Asia Top 50 recognition is frankly baffling when compared to the caliber of other restaurants on the list. Dining should be memorable for the right reasons. For us, it was memorable for all the wrong ones.

Really upscale, gourmet, artisanal experience which they call food 😄 It was a really beautiful and pleasant surprise to have visited this place. Right from drinks (cocktail and mocktail both) to vegetarian dishes, everything was delicious. Loved it !

Really, really amazing restaurant, and by far the best restaurant in Mumbai. They have really unique cocktails, a great vibe, excellent service and really unique and great food. Really creative, especially by using many foraged and sustainably farmed ingredients. And for a good price too! A must when in Mumbai!