The best Pav Bhaji in Mumbai
Also spelt pao bhaji, pav-bhaji, butter pav bhaji and पाव भाजी. A curated shortlist, shaped by your votes.
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Number 1.Cannon Pav Bhaji (CST)
- Open
- Roughly 9am to 9pm; listings differ, best at lunch
- Where
- Cannon Pav Bhaji, Mahapalika Marg, opposite Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Hazarimal Somani Road, Fort, Mumbai 400001
Order the plain butter pav bhaji and ask for extra pav straight off the tawa. There is nowhere to sit: you eat standing at a marble ledge, and the lunch queue moves fast.
What to orderButter pav bhaji with extra pav
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Number 2.Sardar Refreshments (Tardeo)
- Open
- Noon to about 1.30am, seven days
- Where
- 166-A, Tardeo Road Junction, opposite Tardeo bus depot, Tardeo, Mumbai 400034
The Amul butter pav bhaji is what people come for, and Jain and khada versions exist too. Nothing else is on the menu besides juice, and Saturday nights bring a long queue.
What to orderAmul butter pav bhaji
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Number 3.Amar Juice Centre (Vile Parle West)
- Open
- 11.30am to about 2am
- Where
- 3, R N Cooper Hospital Compound, Gulmohar Road, Vile Parle West, Mumbai 400056
Grilled pav bhaji here, with a masala pav to follow, and the secret masala is the point. Seating is thin and after midnight people eat off car bonnets in the hospital compound.
What to orderGrilled pav bhaji
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Maruti Pav Bhaji (Vile Parle West)
- Open
- Noon to 1am daily
- Where
- Shop 1, 383/II, Bhagat Building, Swami Vivekananda Road, opposite Domino's, Vile Parle West, Mumbai 400056
Kali pav bhaji is the reason to walk down SV Road, with the babu masala pav after it. Both are properly hot, so say so if you want the chillies dialled back.
What to orderKali (black) pav bhaji
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Manohar Pav Bhaji (Girgaon)
- Open
- About 10.30am to midnight, daily
- Where
- 103/104-B, Pirbhai Terrace, Jagannath Shankar Seth Road, Bhatwadi, Girgaon, Mumbai 400004
Century-old shop near Central Plaza cinema, and the butter pav bhaji with masala kanda is the order. The room seats barely a dozen, so weekend evenings mean ten or fifteen minutes standing outside.
What to orderButter pav bhaji with masala kanda
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Sadguru Veg Diet (Chembur Station)
- Open
- 8am to midnight daily
- Where
- 3, Janata Market, near Chembur railway station, Chembur East, Mumbai 400071
Started as a juice stall by Chembur station and the cheese pav bhaji is what regulars order now. Come early evening or expect a quarter of an hour on your feet outside.
What to orderCheese pav bhaji
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Bhagwati Pav Bhaji (Irani Wadi
- Open
- About 11.30am to 2.30am; listings vary
- Where
- 6, Laxmi Chand Society, Mathuradas Road, Irani Wadi, opposite Vanja Wadi, Kandivali West, Mumbai 400067
Order pav bhaji and eat it with the sour red garlic chutney, which is the house signature. Weekends are the catch: a table can take forty five minutes, so go on a weekday.
What to orderPav bhaji with red garlic chutney
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DP's The Fast Food Centre (Matunga East)
- Open
- 8am to 11.30pm daily
- Where
- 153, Nandadeep Building, Lakhamsi Napoo Road, opposite Ruia College, Matunga East, Mumbai 400019
Ruia College has eaten here since 1965. Take the pav bhaji and a plate of masala pav, with fruit beer alongside. It jams up when lectures break, so come mid-afternoon instead.
What to orderPav bhaji
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Achija (Ghatkopar East)
- Open
- 10am to 2am daily
- Where
- Shop 1, 1A and 2A, Plot 53, Gala Garden View CHS, Vallabh Baug Lane, Ghatkopar East, Mumbai 400077
Khada pav bhaji or the masala version, both softer than the street norm. This is an air-conditioned family place with a long card; the Chinese section disappoints, and peak hours mean a wait.
What to orderKhada pav bhaji
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Amrut Sagar Fast Food (Hill Road)
- Open
- About 9am to 11pm daily
- Where
- 5, Adeshir House, 49 Hill Road, opposite Globus, Bandra West, Mumbai 400050
Ask for the butter pav bhaji and ignore the pizzas and Chinese further down the card. No air conditioning, tables shared with strangers, and Hill Road parking is its own problem.
What to orderButter pav bhaji
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Shree Siddhivinayak Fast Food (Juhu Chowpatty)
- Open
- About 1pm to 11pm, busiest at sunset
- Where
- Juhu Tara Road, Juhu Chowpatty, near Nazir Wadi, Juhu, Mumbai 400049
The Juhu special pav bhaji comes off a beach tawa with the sea in front of you. Give the tawa pulao a miss, and note that beach parking is now privatised and steep.
What to orderJuhu special pav bhaji
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Lenin Pav Bhaji Centre (New Marine Lines)
- Open
- 9am to 10pm daily
- Where
- 35/37, near Canara Bank, New Marine Lines, Mumbai 400020
A khau galli counter behind Marine Lines: ask for the butter pav bhaji, then the cheese one if you are two. Between one and three the office lunch crowd swamps it.
What to orderButter pav bhaji
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Gypsy Corner (Shivaji Park)
- Open
- 10am to midnight, but bhaji only after 3pm
- Where
- 121, Maryland Corner, opposite Shiv Sena Bhavan, Keluskar Road, Shivaji Park, Dadar West, Mumbai 400028
A Maharashtrian counter opposite Shiv Sena Bhavan. The pav bhaji only goes on the tawa after three in the afternoon, so time the trip; add kothimbir vadi while you wait.
What to orderPav bhaji
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Balaji Food Court (Panch Pakhadi)
- Open
- 7am to about 11.30pm daily
- Where
- Shop 4 and 5, Sital Premises, Smt Meenatai Thackeray Marg, near Hari Niwas, Panch Pakhadi, Thane West 400602
Thane's pav bhaji stop, and the Balaji special is the plate to name at the counter. It is a large multi-cuisine food court, so order from the bhaji side and nothing else.
What to orderBalaji special pav bhaji
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