Tried out some lovely food from Riwayat Mumbai cooked by a home chef named Preeti Sangtani this afternoon. She is Sindhi and was once a caterer who catered for weddings and gala dinners in Ahmedabad. Veg and non-veg both, in case you are wondering. She shut the business when she moved into Mumbai 8 years back.
She started Riwayat Mumbai during the lockdown in September 2020, offering ‘north Indian’ food. This time with a home chef’s sensibility and not a caterer’s. Her daughter Khushboo, told me about her and offered a tasting of their menu which changes every weekend. We tried some of her food today. Lovely north Indian winter specials on a sweaty Mumbai day.
Baby Loaf came to check as I plated the food and I told him about the delicious sarson ke saag, makkai roti and gajar halwa on offer, but like a good Bengali boy he said, ‘daddy pliss. There’s mutton tikki. Aar ki chaee?’
Later I told Didu on the phone that I had makkai ke roti for lunch and remembering her Delhi days, my nonagenarian granny from Kolkata said, “makkai rotir shonge sharsho ka shaag thakbei.”
Grannies know best!
You can find Riwayat Mumbai on Instagram and their contact number is: at 9930194983
