Local Eats Edit: New Restaurant Launches, Outlets and Menus This Week

For this week's Local Eats Edit, we bring you the finest restaurants!  India's culinary scene is constantly evolving — and 2025 is already shaping up to be a flavourful year. Whether you’re in the mood for fine dining, street-style dishes, or just a perfect cup of coffee, here’s a look at the newest spots in town that everyone’s talking about.

Bonne Femme Celebrates the Spirit of the Coast with Its Goan Food Carnival

Bonne Femme, Kolkata’s beloved destination for creative fusion dining, invites guests to savour the essence of Goa with its Goan Food Carnival, a two-week culinary celebration running from November 24 to December 7, 2025. This festival showcases an array of authentic Goan delicacies and coastal inspirations reimagined through Bonne Femme’s signature creativity.

Boardwalk by Flamboyanté: The best Al Fresco Gem in Alibaug You’ll Want to Bookmark

This coastal restaurant right by the Mandwa Jetty is just a ferry ride away from Mumbai, offering a barefoot-luxury take on al fresco. Enjoy the golden hour rhythm with the ultimate sundowner experience. The bar menu celebrates the season with signature cocktails - Grapefruit Gin Fizz, Watermelon Bouquet, Espresso Martini and more. While you are here, also check out their expansive mix of Asian, Indian, and Continental. 

Parisian Café Welcomes the Holidays with Cake Mixing Ceremony 2025

Parisian Café celebrated its Cake Mixing Ceremony 2025. More than just a seasonal tradition, the event felt like a joyful reunion, a coming together of guests, loyal patrons, and the Parisian team to prepare something truly special. With aprons on and sleeves rolled up, participants took part in the delightful ritual of blending premium nuts, dried fruits, and winter spices, soaking them in warmth, both literal and emotional.

Stella Celebrates Thanksgiving with a Specially Curated Menu

Stella’s Thanksgiving menu celebrates classic European and Continental fine dining, enhanced by sophisticated spirit and cocktail offerings. Guests start with Mushroom Cappuccino Soup or Cream of Chicken Soup, followed by Coca-Cola Black Pepper Chicken and Cheddar Fish Bombs. Main courses feature Gill-ty Pleasure Salmon and Broccoli Cakes, while beverage offerings include brandy, cognac, and signature. The feast concludes with a Caramel Custard Brule. 

Chef Pillai’s Meen Arrives at The Artiste Kochi

Meen by Chef Suresh Pillai launches at The Artiste Kochi, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel, bringing Kerala’s coastal spirit into a calm, beautifully detailed space. The restaurant blends tradition with artistry: laterite stone walls, handcrafted tiles, warm textures, and a fisherman mural that sets the tone for a dining room rooted in memory yet shaped for today. A new highlight also anchors the experience: Kerala’s first mall-based outdoor open-air setup, offering a relaxed alfresco setting.

Juliana’s Bistro Thanksgiving Menu

Juliana’s Bistro is celebrating the spirit of Thanksgiving with a specially curated feast on Thursday, 27th November.  Guests can look forward to vegetarian favourites like homemade lasagna, herb rice, and smoked butternut squash soup with dinner rolls, while non-vegetarian diners can indulge in roasted turkey with cranberry sauce, sweet potato, lamb shanks, glazed brussels sprouts, and caramelised baby carrots.

One Floor Down Welcomes Mehico for a Bar Takeover 

One Floor Down is turning up the heat this November with a bar takeover unlike anything the city has seen. On November 28, the Dionysian speakeasy welcomes Mehico, the cult-favourite Mexican-inspired cocktail house known for its smoky flavours, modern techniques, and fiesta-driven spirit. Highlights from the takeover menu include Centro Paradiso, a refreshing blend of Patrón Silver, cucumber, cilantro, jalapeño, and yuzu, and Citrus Dove.

Olive Bar & Kitchen Bandra Marks Its 25th Anniversary With New Menu by Chef Alessandro Piso

Marking a significant milestone in the narrative of Mumbai’s culinary scene, Olive Bar & Kitchen, Bandra, commemorates its 25th anniversary by unveiling its most dynamic evolution yet. This season, guests are invited to rediscover the institution through the bold, rebellious lens of newly appointed Executive Chef Alessandro Piso, a name already generating buzz among food insiders.

Magnolia Bakery Launches its First Store in NCR - Gurugram

New York’s iconic Magnolia Bakery debuted its first store in Gurugram on November 15 2025. Known globally for its classic American desserts and world-famous Banana Pudding, since it first opened its doors on Bleecker Street in NYC’s West Village in 1996, the brand has been delighting patrons with its warm, inviting décor, baked-from-scratch desserts and beautifully decorated cakes, cupcakes, ice cream and signature banana pudding. 

Marriott Executive Apartments, Bengaluru UB City Unveils Sun & Savour

Marriott Executive Apartments, Bengaluru UB City, invites guests to experience ‘Sun & Savour’, a refreshing poolside Sunday brunch at The Market – the hotel’s all-day dining destination, and The Roof – the Asian Bar & Grill by the pool. Designed as a celebration of culinary excellence, unmatched hospitality, and lasting memories, Sun & Savour blends global flavours, soulful music, and family-friendly fun in an elegant urban setting.

Third Wave Coffee Forays into Ahmedabad With 2 New Cafes

Third Wave Coffee, one of India’s fastest-growing speciality coffee brands, enters Ahmedabad city with the launch of two new cafés. Located on CG Road and Prahlad Nagar, two of the city’s most vibrant neighbourhoods, the launch marks an important milestone in the brand’s national expansion synergy. With an existing presence at Ahmedabad airport, the new launches further strengthen Third Wave Coffee’s footprint in the city and its western market cluster, which includes Mumbai and Pune.

Silq Arrives in Delhi: An Ode to the Silk Route

Silq, a fine-dining restaurant that transforms every meal into a cultural passage, opens its doors with a vision that transcends conventional hospitality. Born from the spirit of the ancient Silk Route, those legendary pathways where spice merchants and storytellers, philosophers and poets once carried treasures between civilisations, Silq offers something rare in our hurried world: the profound luxury of ritual, reverence, and unhurried grace.

Savour Comforting South Indian Flavours at Dakshinayan this Winter

Step into Dakshinayan in Mumbai and Thane, where the familiar warmth of their authentic homestyle recipes meets the chill of the season. This winter, indulge in comforting classics like steaming hot tomato rasam (thakkali rasam), fluffy steamed idlis (kancheepuram idli), and crispy dosais and oothappams straight off the griddle (molga podi dosai, thengai oothappam). Pair rasam with fresh steamed rice or try their elumichai sadam - a fragrant rice offering tossed with a splash of lemon. End on a sweet note with their signature filter kapi mookiyathu. 

Bastian Celebrates Thanksgiving with a Warm, Home-Style Feast Across All Its Outlets

Before the conversations, before the clinking glasses, before the laughter, there’s the food. And this Thanksgiving, Bastian brings back its most-awaited feast of the year. The celebration unfolds across all outlets on November 26 for dinner and throughout the day on November 27. Guests can indulge in the Veg Platter, a wholesome celebration of Lasagne Sheet, String Beans, Mashed Potato, Brussels Sprouts, Stuffing, Cranberry Jam, Corn Bread, Mac & Cheese, and Vegetarian Sausage, and many more such delicacies. 

Si Nonna’s Brings True Neapolitan Pizza Craft to Hyderabad

Como Agua’s Fresh Menu Additions

L’Opéra and DDA Unveil Café du Jardin at Asita Park