Mumbai Darbar Indian Restaurant

Good authentic Indian dishes.
Spiciness level is manageable if you regularly eat spicy. Service was very nice our hosts explained and answered all our questions about various dishes.
Definitely would recommend and we will come back.

We tried:
- samosas with chicken (a bit dry, not their best dish)
- puri with prawns - very very good!
- papadums with sauces
- lababdar chicken (very tasty, a bit too sweet for my taste)
- butter chicken
- lady fingers
- paratha bread
- and peshavari bread (with coconut) - beware this I a sweet bread. Very good though.

I’ve been here with a friend, I love Indian food and I saw a lot of good reviews for this restaurant, so we chose this one. The best thing we could ever done! The food is amazing, as the staff: I didn’t know the names of the dishes but I knew that I wanted something with coconut, so I asked to advice me some dishes with that and explain what’s inside. Everything went exactly as I expected, the chicken Korma that he advised was delicious! And they have a lot of vegetarian choices. This restaurant is very local and typical Indian, absolutely the perfect choice if you want to taste real Indian flavors!

Small advice: in the menu there are only the names of the dishes, not what’s inside; maybe a good improvement can be writing the ingredients under the plates! For example, if they have fruits, nuts, which kind of veggies, coconut, yogurt, cream, etc… anyway, if you are in doubt just ask, and they will explain or advice!

The staff were super-friendly and accommodating, asking if we’d like a bigger table so we had more room for dishes. They recommended delicious dishes for us and noticed before we ordered that we were ordering vegetarian, and recommended things we mike like. The food was absolutely delicious and each had its own warmer, so that everything was still warm at the end of the meal.

Mumbai Darbar Indian Restaurant was recommeded to us by our friends who spend a lot of their time out dining.
It is a well placed on the main street of the town of Alvor with a large outside area and a very pleasant interior (comfortable seating).
The service was good and the so is the menu choice. I recommend the home made samoosas (not standard) for starters plus another choice (only 2 samoosas).
There is a wide choice on the menu. I had the Madras curry. Hot is indian medium but did raise a considerable sweat (which is normal for me). Fiona had curried lentils. Both were well presented and more than sufficient.
We ended off with the Indian ice cream
All in all an excellent meal. We'll be back!

I was recommended this place by a couple I met 4 days ago in another resturant.

Everything was amazing. Even the fact that there's limited indoor seating is good in my opinion.

It's a family run place and it tasted the closest to a great home cooked meal of any place I've ever eaten.

Big props to the owners who flew around the 1½ hours we were here, but never stressed out while making sure everyone had a good evening. 👍👍👍👍👍