In the hotbed of eateries serving some of the city’s best piping hot dosas, sambars and tasty chutney that is Matunga, lies an equally popular if unlikely restaurant — an Irani one. What is it about Koolar & Co, run by two jolly brothers, that helps it hold its own against the might of rasam? Find out – Click Here

Koolar & Co. in Matunga (East) is an Irani restaurant run by Amir Koolar and his brother Ali. Both wear the beleaguered appearance of people who have been fighting the establishment for their own survival for as long as they have lived. Bureaucracy, red-tapeism and licence acquisition for their restaurant apart, Amir was also the man who made adopting trees legal in India — a battle that he fought in memory of his dead Rottweiler.

Courtesy : Jehangir Bisney