We were disappointed last year with the closing of Rivers to Oceans, Zorawar Kalra's luxury champagne and caviar bar that Mumbai just didn't seem to warm up to. Not someone to give up easily, he decided to take a U-turn and offer a modern Asian Thai bar — Tygr — that's not too hard on the pocket, and yet not short on innovation. It works, and how!

We have been to Asian bars in the last two years; the city really loves the cuisine. But this one is the only place that we end up going to twice in two weeks. That's how much we like it. The slow-as-snails and confused service (they give us a complementary dessert to make up for it) is their only shortcoming. We are putting this out there right in the beginning, so we can share our experience — most of which was enjoyable — at one-go.