20+ New Restaurants and Bars to Visit Across India
One month into the year, and these new restaurants and bars across India are proving that they are perfect for dates, catch-ups, and relaxed evenings out.
January sets the tone for the year, and few things do that better than discovering new places to eat and drink. Across India’s key cities, a fresh set of restaurants, cafés, and bars has opened their doors, and as the first month of the year ends, we are helping you track them down for a visit. Whether it’s a neighbourhood café for slow mornings, a cocktail bar meant for lingering evenings, or a restaurant best enjoyed with a full table and shared plates, these new openings offer plenty of reasons to step out. From Mumbai and Bengaluru to Goa and Delhi NCR, each address brings its own flavour, mood, and menu to the table. If the new year calls for new tables, new conversations, and familiar comforts served well, these are the places worth adding to the January calendar.
Mumbai
Javaphile Café
Javaphile’s Worli flagship extends the city’s beloved neighbourhood café culture into a space designed for long days and longer coffee breaks. Expect thoughtful brews, comforting all-day food, familiar warmth, and an easy rhythm that suits solo mornings, work sessions, and unhurried brunches alike.
KOJAK
KOJAK is a focused cocktail bar built for staying put. Technique-driven drinks using clarification and fat-washing meet a compact, well-paced food menu designed for sharing. Low-lit interiors and an alfresco section make it ideal for early arrivals, repeat rounds, and evenings that stretch comfortably.
Akina
Akina brings modern Asian dining to Worli through technique-led cooking, bold cross-cultural flavours, and immersive design. Japanese sensibilities meet Indian influences across sushi, robata grills, inventive small plates, and element-inspired cocktails, creating a polished yet expressive space built for lingering, layered dining experiences.
The Penang Table
The Penang Table introduces Malaysia’s diverse culinary heritage to Mumbai through soulful, flavour-forward dishes. Drawing from Malay, Chinese, Indian, and indigenous influences, the menu balances street classics, comforting curries, and vibrant salads. Warm interiors and an ingredient-led bar invite guests to slow down and stay awhile.
Ammakai
Bastian Hospitality’s newest all-day dining address, Ammakai brings Karnataka soul food to Bandra with Amma-led warmth and nostalgia. It reimagines the former Bastian space with comforting, home-style flavours, family-style dosas, and a deeply personal, community-driven dining experience.
Toscano
Toscano brings its signature Italian warmth to South Mumbai with a new Nariman Point outpost. Expect handmade pastas, sourdough pizzas, classic grills, and timeless desserts, served in a cosy, European-style setting that makes it perfect for date nights, workday dinners, and relaxed family meals.
Lygon St.
Lygon St. is a wine-led Italian neighbourhood bar inspired by Melbourne’s iconic street. With fresh daily pasta, comfort-first pizzas, and table-side wine guidance, it offers unpretentious dining built for slow evenings, easy conversations, and relaxed pours in the heart of Andheri.
Houdini
A theatrical new restaurant and cocktail bar in Lower Parel, Houdini blends illusion, mixology, and global comfort food into an immersive dining experience. Expect dramatic interiors, inventive cocktails by Shatbhi Basu, playful plates, and live entertainment that turns every visit into a little escape from the ordinary.
Olive Café & Bar
Making a homecoming with fresh energy, Olive Café & Bar opens in BKC and Borivali with a lighter, café-forward avatar. Expect relaxed Mediterranean-inspired spaces, thoughtful all-day menus, signature cocktails, great coffee and warm, familiar hospitality that fits effortlessly into Mumbai’s everyday rhythm.
August Cafe
After a decade in Andheri, August reopens with a quieter confidence, celebrating everyday rituals and neighbourhood comfort. Redesigned by Studio 6158, the café blends European elegance with warmth, sunlit interiors and an open barista station, creating a calm, welcoming pause designed for real routines, not rush.
Goa
Sabores
Sabores is a refined tribute to Goan–Portuguese heritage, blending coastal flavours, thoughtful plating, and serene architecture. Rooted in memory and tradition, the intimate restaurant balances nostalgia with modern technique, offering soulful food, gentle hospitality, and a dining experience shaped by craft and cultural continuity.
Dynamo
Perched along Vagator’s cliffs, Dynamo unfolds slowly from sunset to night. Global techno, easy-drinking cocktails, and crowd-friendly plates create a relaxed rhythm. With rustic interiors, sea-facing views, and multiple seating zones, it’s best approached early and enjoyed without rushing the evening.
Titlie
Goa’s iconic cliffside destination returns with renewed energy and a day-to-night rhythm. Perched above the Arabian Sea, Titlie blends craft cocktails, expressive plates, and evolving soundscapes into a multisensory escape that moves effortlessly from sunlit afternoons to high-energy nights.
Masaya
Set on a cliff overlooking the Anjuna Vagator belt, Masaya is a new sunset destination that shifts effortlessly from relaxed sundowners to high energy nights. With immersive design, global sharing plates, mood driven cocktails, and evolving soundscapes, it redefines Goa’s coastal dining and nightlife rhythm.
Bengaluru
SOL55
SOL55 is a neighbourhood bar built for everyday Bengaluru. Honest pours, comforting regional thalis, and familiar cocktails define the experience. Polished yet approachable, it’s a space for after-work conversations, shared plates, and repeat visits that value consistency over spectacle.
Bar Doubble
Bar Doubble is a compact, high-energy cocktail bar where playful drinks meet serious flavour. Tucked above KH Road, it pairs inventive cocktails with polished bar snacks and comfort-forward plates, creating a buzzy, intimate space where conversations, pours, and plates flow seamlessly into dinner.
The Hood
The Hood marks Toast & Tonic’s rebirth on Wood Street, Bengaluru, transforming the space into a global neighbourhood bar and kitchen. Inspired by Kyoto, Beirut and Florence, it blends travel, ritual and memory through immersive interiors, inventive cocktails, thoughtful coffee and small plates that celebrate how communities eat, drink and connect.
Nila
At Nila (opening Jan 30), Bengaluru, Chef Rahul Sharma plates India with the restraint of a Japanese omakase. Inspired by forests and tribal cuisines of Nagaland, the tasting menu moves quietly yet confidently; deeply researched, ingredient-led, and designed to be absorbed slowly, one thoughtful course at a time.
403 Forbidden
403 Forbidden is a theatre disguised as a bar, where presence is the ultimate luxury. Designed around restraint, rhythm, and intimacy, it replaces spectacle with deeply personal cocktails, immersive lighting, and quiet rituals. Precision techniques, zero-waste philosophy, and bespoke drinks turn every visit into a considered, sensory experience.
Delhi NCR
NISABA
Chef Manish Mehrotra’s NISABA opens at Sunder Nursery, drawing from everyday Indian dishes shaped in homes, bylanes and small towns. Rooted in instinct, discipline and care, the restaurant presents familiar flavours with clarity, balance and contemporary finesse—honest food, thoughtfully crafted, and deeply respectful of its origins.
SOBOMBAE
SOBOMBAE brings the generous, layered flavours of Bombay to Gurgaon. Built for sharing, the menu pulls from Koli, Parsi, Bohri, Goan, and Maharashtrian kitchens without simplifying them. With bold food, nostalgic cues, and crowd-friendly energy, it rewards arriving hungry and together.
Margaret’s Eye
Margaret’s Eye is a quietly confident cocktail bar focused on ingredient-led drinks and thoughtful technique. Led by an all-women bar team, the menu leans on fresh produce, house-made syrups, and balanced builds. Warm lighting and an intimate room make it ideal for conversation-first evenings.
Mangaluru
Kanara Kanteen
Kanara Kanteen opens in Mangaluru as a space rooted in coastal memory and everyday eating. A canteen by day and modern dive bar by night, it reimagines South Canara flavours with warmth and playfulness. Expect comforting food, nostalgic cocktails, and an atmosphere that feels lived in, familiar, and effortlessly local.
So, which one of these new restaurants, cafes, and bars are you planning to visit first?
Shreya Mukherjee
Shreya loves a good Harry Potter conversation when she is not busy figuring out the best toppings for Ramen. An avid reader who enjoys all forms of story-telling, you will find her either reading or binge-watching shows. She also loves spending her weekends taking care of her skin while figuring out which restaurant to get a take-out from.