City Lite Family Restaurant — Restaurant in Mumbai

Expensive Place... Good Food, Especially Seafood... Nice Quantities !!!

We had a big outing here tried several starters, several main course and their giant size dessert. We ordered for Chicken Makhmali, which chicken marinated in white cream sauce and grilled to perfection with melted cheese on top, the Bombil Rawa Fry here was just crispy, succulent and very flavorful, Chicken and Veg Wantons were OK, veg spring roll could have been crisper... The star of the starters was Crispy Potatoes in Veg and the Yummiest Winner of Starter Show was Prawns Koliwada. The marination of the Koliwada masala was beautiful, it sang glory to the Prawn. The crispness of the prawns was crunchy and juicy in the center and it was cooked to perfection. The Veg Burnt Chilly Garlic (got it custom made by the chef) was Awesome. The hero of the main course was once again Prawns, only now it found itself intertwined with the very seafood prawn enriched, flavored and tasty Biryani. The fish curry main course was Awesome. In the breads the Rotis were nice but for a restaurant with so many South Indian options the Appams were a big disappointment. This and the price factor of the restaurant is why I am giving it 4 Stars. I mean Appams were outright disappointing and no where close to what Appams even look like. To make it all worse no matter how many times we ordered it, every order the Appams were ice cold. Which basically means they were made much in advance and not even both warming up. Just like their desserts, which are basically nothing but giant Pool Table Ball Size Gulab Jamuns served reheated in the Microwave, so that only outside gets warm but inside the jamun is ice cold, worst even than the Appams. However, Gulab Jamun is not bad cold too but Appams not acceptable. The only other downside for the dessert was a lumpy slightly uncooked center. The bill damage for all this was too high even for the quality and quantity. The GST on top makes it a lot more unbearable. Nonetheless, if you don't mind the price but want to enjoy good food - CityLite will definitely deliver on...

So, I ordered biryani immediately the day the restaurant opened last year in September after the first lockdown, and the biryani was amazing, infact overwhelmingly good, the chicken pieces were tender, the taste of the masala was very well incorporated with the rice, there was dry fruits in the Biryani. At that point it tasted like one of the best biryanis I've ever had.

Until I ordered it again twice later on after a gap of few weeks, and the taste was average, just like it used to before the restaurant shutdown because of covid lockdown. The chicken wasn't tender, the biryani felt dry, and no dry fruits. The taste was sub-par.

Very disappointing that they weren't consistent with their food. The fact that my family loves their biryani, but them not being consistent is very disappointing and not expected.

Hoping the restaurant shuts down again and when they reopen, they'll probably make that specific biryani to entice the customers. Idk if the restaurant reads the reviews on here, but if they do, they should know that they really outdid themselves the first day, and I wish they were consistent. I always recommend this restaurant's biryani to friends and family, as we've been a customer for...

We were a group of 4 members visiting Mumbai on a business trip and this place was suggested by our colleague who accompanied is along. Of the various items in the menu to choose from, we decided to try the Chinese veg thali. A first for me, as I've never come across this name in particular. I've heard of combos and stuff but not exactly a thalli. By the looks of it, it was highly deceptive that I thought to myself "I'm gonna starve today". I was so wrong. By the time I was done with the soup and partly into the fried rice, I understood what I'd gotten into. It was going to be tough to finish the course off. But I did finish it with a heavy belly though. Taste was decent enough and at par with what I'd expect from a Chinese joint. Gotta try if you're in...