Mumbai (Bombay)
It's worth popping in to this high-end traditional garment shop to see the space itself, a gorgeous, cavernous, rose-oil-scented stunner chock-full of…
Must-see shopping in Mumbai (Bombay)
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Behold Bandra's – and Mumbai's – coolest shop, featuring exclusive graphic art and illustrations sourced from a global army of Indian artists. You'll find…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Mumbai's coolest design shop has thankfully arrived in South Mumbai! Fittingly, the Pop Art cool kid from Bandra has set up shop in Kala Ghoda, where its…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Indian Hippy will put your name in lights, with custom-designed Bollywood posters hand-painted on canvas by the original studio artists (a dying breed…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Chor Bazaar is known for antiques, though be wary of reproductions. The main area of activity is Mutton St, where shops specialise in these ‘antiques’ and…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Kitschy, design-y goods such as stylish embroidered T-shirts, funky coffee mugs and coasters, and superhip graphic art, including beaded embroidered art…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Ethically sourced cotton and silk fashions and homewares in everybody's favourite modern-meets-traditional Indian shop.
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Worth a visit as much for the spectacle if not to buy, this near-century-old traditional oil shop still hand-presses its medicinal, cooking and massage…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Under the discerning eye of gourmet entrepreneur Samyukta Nair, this Colaba concept store occupies a late-19th-century art deco building chock-full of…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
One of Mumbai's oldest shops and born of a dying breed, this family-run retailer kicked off in 1918. Today, friendly grandson Paresh still hawks the…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
One of Mumbai's hottest new brands, this small showroom, overseen by Nandi the Holy Cow in logo, art and design, is an interior-design oasis in Mangaldas…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
This trendy, bespoke shirt tailor for men and women will outfit you in some seriously cool threads for a fraction of prices back home. You can customise…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
A trendy, bespoke shirt tailor for men and women. You can customise everything – collars, buttons, cuffs and twill tapes. The results are stunning and the…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Haji Abu's small Chor Bazaar shop offers a cornucopia of vintage Bollywood posters, lobby cards and show cards dating to the 1930s (originals and reprints…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Selling the intricate embroidery work of women in 114 villages in Kutch, Gujarat, the nonprofit Shrujan aims to help women earn a livelihood while…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
This new and excellent high-end boutique from the same folks who brought us Good Earth is a great spot to pick up carefully curated homewares, travel…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Art deco and colonial-era furniture, wooden ceremonial masks, silver, Victorian glass, plus high-quality reproductions of old photos, maps and paintings.
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Championing a dying art, this fascinating shop sells handmade, cotton-based paper crafted into charming cards, sculptures and lampshades.
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Anokhi gets the East–West balance just right, with men’s and women’s clothes and bedding in block-printed silk and cotton.
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Mumbai (Bombay)
The beautiful traditional printed papers here will make you start writing letters.
Mumbai (Bombay)
Mangaldas Market, traditionally home to traders from Gujarat, is a minitown, complete with lanes of fabrics – hip No-Mad Fabric Shop has even corralled a…
Mumbai (Bombay)
Crawford Market is the largest in Mumbai, and contains the last whiff of British Bombay before the tumult of the central bazaars begins. Bas-reliefs by…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
You could buy your packaged-for-tourists spices at hassle-y Crawford Market; or, you could go where Mumbaikars go, which is this fragrant market in Dadar…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Two stories up a riveting teak stairwell, with vintage Minton tiles and art nouveau stained-glass windows, in one of Coloba's most astonishing mansions,…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Inspired by the Japanese on-duty sleeping idea known as inemuri, this high-concept, made-to-order shop does extremely comfortable designerwear hand-dyed…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
One of Mumbai's most frenetic and fascinating, Bhuleshwar Market is an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink-type shopping thoroughfare hoarding everything from…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
High Street Phoenix, one of India's first and largest shopping malls, and its mall-within-a-mall, the luxury-oriented Palladium, is an indoor/outdoor…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
This very hip designer-leather shop from Delhi features a near-all-India lineup of carefully curated wallets, passport holders, truck-style travel cases,…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
This newer concept store is the brainchild of two French fashionistas, who have curated a potpourri of international and Indian designers to fill the hip…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Though not one official market, the street stalls and shopping arcades between Marks and Spencer and St Peter's Church offer a cornucopia of bargain…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
This top-end shop occupies the former studio of fashion designer James Ferreira, located inside his 200-year-old Kotachiwadi bungalow. It curates designer…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Designer tees (eg 'Hipsters Prefer Kala Ghoda'), graphic prints, framed original 1940s' textile labels and other South Mumbai–centric art and design…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
A classy selection of rugs, clothing, teas, stationery, aromatherapy products, brass sculptures, toy wooden rickshaws and, perhaps most interestingly,…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Wander the narrow lanes of Mumbai's jewellery market in search of gems, jewels and gold – 65% of India's gold trade emerges from here. Notable jewellers…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
The piano-and-keyboard showroom of Mumbai's top musical instrument shop, whose guitar and stringed instruments are found around the corner at BX Furtado &…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
The place in town for musical instruments: sitars, tablas, accordions, and local and imported guitars. Pianos and keyboards at LM Furtado & Co.
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Khadi & Village Industries Emporium
Mumbai (Bombay)
A dusty, 1940s' time warp full of traditional Indian clothing, silk, khadi (homespun cloth) and shoes, plus very popular Khadi natural soaps and shampoos…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
This great spirituality bookshop has lots of books on Hinduism, yoga and philosophy, and the attached restaurant does excellent Gujarati and Rajasthani…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
This bookstore has a brilliantly curated selection of books, the majority of which are 20% off all the time. Food for Thought is a great little cafe in…
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Mumbai (Bombay)
Original, high-end, artisanal clothing, jewellery, home decor and other objects of beauty under the bleachers of the cricket stadium. Enter via the Vinoo…
