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EST. BANDSTAND · SIX COURSES · OPEN FLAME ·
Bandstand Promenade · Bandra West · Mumbai

WOOD Fire TIDE

A six-course tasting room built around one charcoal grill and whatever the boats brought in that morning.

The idea

A kitchen built around one question.

Embercourt began with a simple provocation: what if the whole menu was decided by the tide, not the calendar? No printed card survives more than a few weeks here — the fish market writes the first draft every morning, and the wood fire finishes the argument.

Chef Rohan Kale runs the pass around a single charcoal grill, three feet from the first row of tables. Nothing leaves the kitchen without touching it first — not the bread, not the vegetables, not the dessert that closes the evening.

— The kitchen, Embercourt

Warm snacks off the coals
I 01/06

Snacks

Off the coals, before the wine list opens.

Two or three bites while you settle in — usually whatever just came off the grill.

Raw bar scallop course
II 02/06

Raw bar

Today's catch, cut thin, dressed in citrus.

Named on a small card that changes with the morning's boats.

III 03/06

From the fire

The grill this room was built around.

Smoke, char, and a fish or bird cooked whole for the table.

Chef plating the main course tableside
IV 04/06

The main course

Slow, shared, and rarely repeated.

Plated tableside — the one dish the kitchen argues about most.

Cheese and bread course by candlelight
V 05/06

Cheese & bread

Baked in the same fire, paired by the sommelier.

A short pause before the sweet course.

Dessert course, overhead view
VI 06/06

Dessert

Whatever fruit survived the week.

Plus the dark chocolate one nobody at the table skips.

Where it sits

On the Bandstand promenade, Bandra West.

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Embercourt
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4.8★

612 Google reviews

What the room says when the kitchen isn't listening.

The fish course alone is worth the drive from South Bombay.

The raw bar

The sommelier remembers what you drank last time.

The cellar

Small room, so ask for the window if the tide matters to you.

Seating

Tables turn slow by design — budget the whole evening.

Pace

The fish course alone is worth the drive from South Bombay.

The raw bar

The sommelier remembers what you drank last time.

The cellar

Small room, so ask for the window if the tide matters to you.

Seating

Tables turn slow by design — budget the whole evening.

Pace

Reservations matter here — Friday is booked three weeks out.

Booking

Parking gets tight after eight; valet is worth the tip.

Getting there

Bread baked in the same fire as the mains — worth the carbs.

Cheese & bread

The dessert nobody at our table would share.

Dessert

Reservations matter here — Friday is booked three weeks out.

Booking

Parking gets tight after eight; valet is worth the tip.

Getting there

Bread baked in the same fire as the mains — worth the carbs.

Cheese & bread

The dessert nobody at our table would share.

Dessert

After Dark

This is what eight o'clock looks like, most nights

Tables are held on a call

No booking engine for the good tables. The host answers, and Friday fills first.