Good Luck Restaurant — Restaurant in Mumbai

When your mind is busy and the body is hungry, usually food can't impact your mind because those thoughts or plans are more important. That's where taste steals the show. That's exactly what happened at Good Luck. We did not even know what cuisine was served before we chose to go there for breakfast. It was a day after the MLA was murdered and we hadn't made it to the top nominee list of IFP for our short film submission. Mind was lull. We ordered bun maska with suleimani along with kheema pav and paneer roll. The first bite of the paneer roll (without the ketchup) actually flipped my mind. The lull changed into adrenaline. I looked inside to realise that the paneer wasn't coated, marinated or overfried (like in the case of most rolls) - every bite after that, was with my eyes closed. That good!

I'd suggest not to use ketchup to know how glorious a simple paneer roll can be. Then came kheema pav. I'm used to eating kheema pav in Bangalore with the Pav heated and glazed in butter. This bun was not hot nor glazed, it is the kheema that stole the show! I kept smelling my hand after coming out for the fragrance of kheema. Bun maska and chai were of great quality too!

We read some reviews about how you'll be asked to stand out for bun maska and chai - I think it's okay for a place of this level to have some rules.

They also cause inconvenience by accepting 'only' cash, but I think someone should stand against the system to make a statement.

Overal, We went back for lunch to have chicken pulaav, sheek kebab Paratha and some more suleimaani. We will keep going back there, whenever Bombay calls us back.

We forgot the day's heaviness and forgot to click pictures of the food. Good...

A friend's scouring of places and suggestions bought us to the Good Luck Restaurant, in Bandra. It is situated right next to Mehboob Studio, at a busy junction in Bandra. The place is more known for it's breakfast dishes, and is usually crowded.

The ambience is vintage, takes you back to the old Bombay nostalgia, and the menu is typically Parsi. They have a small convenience store as well.

The food is a mix of typical Bombay Parsi and middle eastern. We were pretty hungry, and started off with a bunch of pavs and kheema fry beef. Served piping hot, the crunchy pavs go wonderfully well with the spicy beef kheema. Next we ordered, the kheema ghotala beef, which had more of an egg consistency. I personally liked the kheema fry more than the kheema ghotala. Next up was the lovely chicken shawarma, with generous amounts of chicken and mayo.

The flagship dish of this place is the bun maska accompanied by Irani chai which soon followed suit. A few mutton samosas later, we ordered the final dish of the day - more crunchy pavs with Chicken Handi, upon the recommendation of the waiter. It was a tad bit disappointing compared to the earlier dishes.

Overall, the food gets a healthy rating of 4/5, the vintage ambience another 4/5. Service was pretty fast as we were one of only 3 tables at 8PM on a Friday evening. A great visit if you're in the area, and are looking for a filling meal at a...

The only reason this place still gets its few customers is because, there is no other eatery nearby. The shawarma sold here is dry, with the bread burnt many times and the roasted chicken is dry and chewy. It's sold for Rs. 120. You will get much better shawarma at Kurla for Rs.60. so if you have time, you might as well pay the Rs.60 extra on a rickshaw! The coffee here (Rs. 60) will make you long for the coffee served on the Indian railways. Seriously, the coffee sold on our trains is miles ahead. If you think the coffee on the trains are not up to scratch, the you should give the coffee here a second thought. The tea is not bad. One good thing is, the place takes its customers heath as paramount and hence, both tea and coffee are filled less than quarter of the paper cup it is served in. Or Maybe, patrons could not drink more than a quarter of the drink and the mgmt found three-fourths always left behind and so the management decided to serve only quarter? In any case, be warned. I don't know which oil they use, but you will find generous amounts of it in their samosas, kheema and all other dishes. It sometimes affects my throat. So people who are sensitive, be wary. On the whole, good luck to you if...