Udipi Shri Krishna Boarding, Vegetarian restaurant in Matunga East, Mumbai, India.
Udipi Shri Krishna Boarding is a vegetarian restaurant on the first floor of a building in the Matunga neighborhood of Mumbai. It serves classic South Indian dishes such as dosas, idlis, and vadas, plated on banana leaves with fresh sambar and chutneys prepared daily.
The restaurant was founded in 1942 by A. Rama Nayak, who moved from Mangalore to Mumbai and brought the cooking style of coastal Karnataka with him. It has stayed in the family since then and remained a fixture in Matunga for over eight decades.
The restaurant follows the Udupi tradition of serving specific dishes on specific days of the week, so the menu shifts naturally through the week. Many guests from Mumbai's South Indian community come here to eat food that connects them to coastal Karnataka.
The restaurant is a short walk from Matunga Central Railway Station, so it is easy to reach without a vehicle. It focuses on lunch service, so arriving early in the midday window helps avoid a long wait.
The restaurant still issues handwritten bills with table numbers, a practice almost unheard of in modern dining. This habit has not changed since the restaurant opened and sets it apart from nearly every other place to eat in the city.
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