Relish restaurant situated on Dinshaw Wachha road is a vegetarian fusion restaurant by Prashant Caterers, owners of the famous Samrat restaurant of Mumbai. After reading rave reviews on Tripadvisor, the missus and I set out for south Mumbai. Enroute we made a stopover at Phoenix Mills, Parel. After taking some time to find it(it is located in a far-flung corner) we finally settled down.

The ambience is contemporary and the menu card very colorful. Space however, is at a premium, being situated right in the heart of the office district and this does also lead to amplified decibel levels. In addition, we were right at the end of lunch hours, otherwise people are usually being requested to empty their table as soon as they are done with that food. But one can live with that.

We ordered the Vegetable Sizzler first since we had not had it in a very long time. It allowed us to choose four accompaniments with the Kebab and we went for Noodles, fries, babycorn and BBQ sauce. The dish was excellent, with just the right amount of every ingredient and apt to its name , quite sizzling. Since we had soaked in a little refreshment at our mall stopover, we just had space for one more dish. (This was what the missus pointed out dramatically with her adorable shaking and tilting of her head. Talk about signals).

So we tried out something light(and farty) the Mexican caught our eye and we got ourselves a Cheese Jalapeno Quesadillas. Having tasted authentic Tex-Mex food in the States, this didn’t stand up to scrutiny and tasted a rather flat version of Indo-Mex if you will. The jalapenos were not spicy at all and the tortillas not crunchy enough.

Overall, it is very hard to find an inexpensive restaurant serving good fresh food in Mumbai, that too in South Mumbai. Relish has some great food for vegetarians, (should try the recommended Italian here) and other than the fact that it is hard to find, this one is highly recommended.