Ziya Restaurant, Fine dining restaurant at The Oberoi Hotel in Nariman Point, Mumbai, India.
Ziya is a fine dining restaurant on an upper floor of The Oberoi Hotel in Nariman Point, Mumbai, focused on contemporary Indian cuisine. The kitchen is open to the dining room, so guests can watch the preparation of multicourse menus built around carefully chosen spices and ingredients.
The restaurant opened in 2010, with chef Vineet Bhatia attached to its launch. Bhatia had already become the first Indian chef to earn a Michelin star, and his involvement put Ziya on the map for contemporary Indian fine dining from the start.
The name Ziya means "light" in Arabic and Persian, and it reflects the restaurant's approach of shedding new light on familiar Indian cooking. Spices and techniques rooted in everyday Indian kitchens appear here in forms that feel both recognizable and entirely new.
The restaurant sits on an upper floor of The Oberoi Hotel with views toward the Arabian Sea, making evening visits especially pleasant. Booking ahead is strongly advisable, since the multicourse format takes time and the room has a limited number of seats.
The menu features dishes like mushroom khichdi and makhani ice cream, two preparations that take well-known Indian staples into completely unexpected territory. These combinations show that familiar pantry items can carry entirely different meanings depending on how they are cooked and presented.
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