With each new menu, it's becoming clearer that Mumbai's foodscape is changing. Less than a decade ago, a collaboration was confined to a restaurant roping in a chef (either a home chef, or a face from a First World country) who spent some time wracking their brains with the head chef to realign their culinary tenor, and tune it to the rhythm of the restaurant.

They would then create a pop-up menu that fit (or was shoehorned) neatly in the space left in the middle. And this simple math — of the two-plus-two-is-equal-to-four variety — is what has largely governed the collaborative space. But such a simple addition overlooks the infinitesimal details, possible to account for only by integration, which forms the spirit of a collaboration, where you don't just juxtapose two things but amalgamate them.