Ekaa

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.

A very admirable use of food chemistry, every dish has many components, each component individually taste kind of dull, but when they are assembled together, they give a very unique burst of flavors, it’s like some magic trick. The service was also good, servers would tell you about the dish and also how it’s supposed to be consumed, they had good knowledge of what they are serving. Ambience of the restaurant vibes with its food, it’s very subtle, very earthy but unique. Some might complain about portion size, especially at they relatively high price tag, but this place is about a food experience not gluttony. Anyways the neighborhood is full of many fast food hotspots, if you’re still hungry after a food entertainment.

A place where food is art. The portion size is not the best but worth a try if you would want to experiment a variety of flavors. Great cocktails. Always a good experience

Absolutely LOVED our experience at Ekaa. The food was spectacular. Michelle, the head chef, is extremely creative and knows how to create perfect marriages of flavours. We really enjoyed our meal. Also, the bar has very, very interesting cocktails unique to Indian ingredients, with Ayurvedic inspiration. The bartenders spent a while explaining to me all of the various house-made concoctions they use in their cocktails, and I learnt a ton. We highly recommend <3

Out-of-this-world delicious. Fantastic service. We did drinks at the bar and dined à la carte. Cocktails are genuinely inventive and different. Never thought things like black garlic or camphor would make for a delicious cocktail. Intimate, gorgeous setting. Chef Niyati was on site to talk us through everything. From her meticulous attention to detail to the execution, it was an experience to remember. Be sure to check this place out if you’re in Mumbai— you’re in for a huge treat. Bravo, Ekaa!

Visited in Sep 2024 Ekaa currently has a “Kingdoms” themed menu going in where the courses are inspired by the recipes of some famous ancient kingdoms/dynasties from history - across Asia, Europe and South America. This whole concept gives the dining experience a nice touch. There are 10 courses overall and for non-vegetarians the overall dining experience is a good mix of meat and non-meat courses. I really liked the taco course and the desserts. The Indian kingdoms themed courses frankly felt a bit disappointing to me. For drinks, I went with a couple of cocktails. Ekaa has its own cocktail bar too. Overall, Ekaa is a pretty decent restaurant but I am I personally didn’t feel it to be an AsianTop100 restaurant. There are so many fine dining establishments I’ve visited this year across Asia which were so much better. For folks who have dined at other Top100 places need to temper their expectation a bit while visiting Ekaa.