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Shangri-La Eros New Delhi is participating in Taste of Shangri-La 2026, a culinary initiative bringing together signature dining destinations across Shangri-La Hotels in Europe, Canada, India, Sri Lanka, the Indian Ocean and the Middle East. Running through October, the initiative features specially curated menus across more than 25 restaurants and bars, highlighting regional flavours and culinary traditions.

At the New Delhi property, the programme brings together Sorrento, the hotel's Italian restaurant, and Shang Palace, known for its Cantonese cuisine. Both venues are offering specially curated menus for the month.

At Sorrento, the menu draws on Italian flavours, beginning with Beetroot Tartare and Whipped Goat Cheese, accompanied by wild rocket, caramelised goat cheese, candied macadamia nuts, balsamic glaze and brioche. Other courses include Rigatoni Duck Ragù with candied peach, parsley and duck sauce, and Cream of Parmesan Risotto with 24-carat gold, onion soubise and parmesan air.

Main course options include Pan-Seared Sea Bass with potato gnocchi, saffron and roasted cherry tomatoes; Duo of Australian Lamb with smoked eggplant and creamy polenta; and Baked Chickpea Crespelle with San Marzano sauce and lemon garlic mash. The meal concludes with Berry Pavlova, featuring Italian meringue, wild berry compote and fresh berries.

At Shang Palace, the menu showcases Cantonese cooking through vegetarian and non-vegetarian preparations. Highlights include Lobster Saffron Har Gao, Jackfruit Dumplings with Chilli Oil, Crispy Sichuan Pepper Chicken with Peanut and Sesame, and Crispy Mango Prawn.

The main course selection features Cantonese-Style Steamed Cod Fillet, Stir-Fry Chicken with Black Vinegar and Caramelised Walnut, and vegetarian dishes such as Stir-Fry Lotus Root and Asparagus with Morel Mushroom and Black Pepper. Strawberry Pistachio Moon Cake, served with strawberry compote and pistachio praline, completes the menu.

The Taste of Shangri-La menus at both restaurants are priced at Rs 3,500 plus taxes per person. A cocktail-paired option is available at Rs 6,500 plus taxes per person.

What to Eat

Chef Manuel Olveira’s second act in Mumbai ditches the copy-paste playbook. Instead, it makes a case for character, context and a very good reason to be at Churchgate at 5:30PM

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A restaurant’s second address can be something of a poisoned chalice. The original has done the hard work of winning people over. The sequel must convince them there is a reason to venture beyond familiar territory. Too often, the sequel in question is little more than the original, with a different postcode and a fresh coat of paint.

La Panthera at Eros, from founders Chef Manuel Olveira and Mickee Tuljapurkar, is a welcome departure from the above. Where the BKC original sets the tone, this restaurant is the cousin who moved to the old part of town, took up chicer hobbies and now hosts dinner parties that have people angling for invitations.

Housed within the 1930s Art Deco grandeur of Eros cinema, one of Churchgate’s most distinguished landmarks, the 80-seater has the built-in character that no amount of expensive joinery can manufacture. With the help of designer Gowri Adappa (A Design Co), La Panthera is akin to a gorgeous old-world South Bombay apartment. Vintage lighting cast amber pools, walls are clad with wood, brass and timber bring warmth and beautiful paintings force you to admire them. There is a central bar, intimate dining corners, a library lounge, a private dining room, an open kitchen and a pizza oven glowing away like a benevolent little furnace. Then there is the terrace, with partial views of Churchgate station and a ringside seat to the commuter chaos of one of the city’s great theatres.

Chef Manuel calls his approach “comfort food, refined”. Drawing on Spanish roots and years in European kitchens, the menu wanders the continent with the easy confidence of someone who has been fed well in a great many places. The Spanish accent runs strongest, with authentic ingredients imported and treated with respect. The rest of the menu (pintxos, tapas, 48-hour fermented pizzas, pastas, mains and desserts) sits in that sweet spot where the familiar and clever shake hands. This kitchen knows when to intervene and, just as importantly, when to leave well enough alone.

What To Eat At La Panthera Eros

The Pan Con Tomate with Cantabrian anchovies is a case in point. On paper, it is little more than bread, tomato and fish; on the plate, it is an argument for knowing when to stop. Crisp bread, rubbed with a frozen tomato, carries a sweet-acidic tang, a whisper of garlic and the salty, silky richness of Cantabrian anchovies from northern Spain. Salt, fat, acid, crunch. It disappears in two bites.

The Bloody Mary ceviche is a more mischievous affair, and the plate most likely to find itself photographed and Instagrammed. Fresh sea bass is dressed in a lime leche de tigre, a bright, citrus-led Peruvian marinade with the restorative properties of a very good idea, then finished with a Bloody Mary granita.

The Shio Koji Pork Belly takes a more technical route to gratification. It’s marinated in shio koji, the Japanese fermented rice seasoning that tenderises meat while deepening its savoury character. The pork arrives yielding and richly flavoured, its lacquered exterior giving way to unctuous layers within. A roasted apple purée brings sweetness and softness; grilled cabbage, charred at the edges, supplies a welcome bitterness. The coffee jus pulls everything together, while adding a bittersweet finish.

The Chicken Ravioli is the kind of dish you’d order on a wet Tuesday and remember on a sunny Saturday. Delicate pasta parcels are filled with confit chicken, slow-cooked in its own fat until it surrenders entirely, and paired with wild mushrooms in an indulgent creamy sauce.

The Baked Sea Bass comes with Mickee’s recommendation that it is not to be missed. Gently cooked and flaky, the fish arrives in a savoury seafood bisque, with the sort of sauce that suggests someone has been tending the pot since breakfast, with pillowy gnocchi on hand to mop up every last drop. A crisp fennel salad brings an aniseed-bright freshness, keeping all that richness in check.

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Finally, the Roast Chicken (which is probably one of the best roasts in the city right now). The chicken is properly roasted, with the burnished skin and juicy flesh that remind you why this is the world’s most trusted Sunday lunch. The pumpkin purée brings sweetness and velvet; the salsa verde slices through the richness like a witty interjection at a long dinner; and the jus is glossy and worth mopping up with whatever bread you have left over from the other dishes.

Dessert is no afterthought, with the famed Tiramisu delivering its familiar pleasures, alongside a gorgeous Apple Tarte Tatin, its caramelised fruit tucked beneath golden, buttery pastry. A selection of sorbets provides a lighter, fruit-forward finish.

The cocktail programme at this temple of taste also follows the kitchen’s lead. Nothing arrives smoking, flaming or wearing a hat. Clarification, infusions, reductions and house-made ingredients do their work behind the scenes, and the emphasis is on flavour rather than theatre; a refreshing stance in a city where drinks upstage the conversation.

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Here’s an insider tip. La Panthera Eros runs an Aperitivo Hour from 5:30 to 7 pm, with a Spanish bar bites menu and a pintxos-forward spread. It is the most civilised reason to leave the office early. Claim a terrace seat, order a well-made drink and a round of something to whet your appetite, and watch the colours in the sky change. Then stay for dinner and after that too. Late-Night Eats run from 11:30 PM to 1am, offering Spanish bar bites and pizzas for anyone who believes an evening isn't finished until something hot, blistered and cheesy has been consumed.

La Panthera Eros respects its location without cosplaying it, honours Spanish bar culture without turning it into a theme night, serves food that’s comforting without being too complacent and gives South Mumbai a room worth dressing up for—even if the plan was one quick drink.

At the heart of the restaurant is Olveira’s philosophy of “comfort food, refined” a European menu shaped by his Spanish roots, travels and experience across European kitchens. The menu spans Spanish pintxos and tapas, 48-hour fermented pizzas, pastas, mains and desserts, combining familiar comfort dishes with contemporary techniques and flavours. Authentic Spanish ingredients feature prominently throughout, said a release.

La Panthera Eros is the second Mumbai outpost of chef Manuel Olveira and founder Mickee Tuljapurkar’s La Panthera, following the success of the BKC restaurant. Located within Mumbai’s iconic 1930s Eros building in Churchgate, the new 80-seater is designed as a distinct expression of the brand, drawing heavily from its South Bombay setting rather than replicating the original.

At the heart of the restaurant is Olveira’s philosophy of “comfort food, refined” a European menu shaped by his Spanish roots, travels and experience across European kitchens. The menu spans Spanish pintxos and tapas, 48-hour fermented pizzas, pastas, mains and desserts, combining familiar comfort dishes with contemporary techniques and flavours. Authentic Spanish ingredients feature prominently throughout.

Speaking about the new outlet Tuljapurkar said, “We were very clear that the second La Panthera couldn’t just be La Panthera BKC at a different address. Being at such an iconic building such as Eros gave us a chance to rethink the dining experience from the ground up. The building has so much character and history & being in South Bombay naturally changed the way we felt the restaurant should feel. We wanted to respond to the space and the neighbourhood rather than impose the BKC version of La Panthera on it.

“A lot of thought went into making Eros feel more intimate and more connected to its surroundings. The architecture, the terrace, the bar and even the way the menu is structured have all been approached differently. At the same time, there are things that are important to us as a brand - the warmth, the European sensibility and the feeling of a restaurant that you want to come back to. So while the two restaurants share the same DNA, Eros really has a personality of its own.”

Olveira stated, “For us - the food had to feel familiar but still have the technique and attention to detail that we bring to everything we do. The menu at Eros is quite different from BKC & we’ve kept it very European with a strong Spanish influence. There are dishes and flavours that people will recognise, but we’ve cooked them in our own way.

“We also wanted the dining experience to feel and be quite fluid. The evening can start with aperitivo and Spanish bar bites at 5.30, move into dinner and continue later with late-night eats menu. You can come in for a drink and a few pintxos, stay on for dinner, or come in later in the evening for cocktails to socialise and have something to eat without necessarily having a dinner reservation. I like the idea of the restaurant evolving with the evening, rather than the experience being centred around a traditional dinner. That sense of how people eat, drink and socialise in Europe was something we wanted to bring to La Panthera Eros.”

La Panthera is a familiar name. When Chef Manuel Olveira and his wife and partner Mickee Tuljapurkar opened the first outpost in BKC in 2024, its opulent interiors were hard to miss, and many likened it to a living room in a European manor.

Its second outpost, just launched in the heritage precinct of Eros Cinema in South Bombay, is a deliberate departure. Here, La Panthera is warmer and more restrained, with Art Deco elements that pay homage to the building it occupies. The drama is in the details rather than the excess — a conscious exercise in understatement.

Interior designer Gowri Adappa of A Design Co was given a simple brief: small glimpses of Art Deco, not a costume. It lives in the light fixtures, the clean vertical lines and custom mouldings. The terrazzo flooring was made to order in South India, while much of the art and every book in the library foyer came from Mickee’s own home. The result feels like a stylish South Bombay house of around 4,600 sq ft, with a private dining room for ten and a balcony overlooking Churchgate Station.

The space, Mickee says, “came from the sky.” A close friend mentioned that the building’s owners would love to have them, and with a real estate background of her own, her “hair stood up”. They had to take it up. They own the business with Mickee’s brother Rahul Tuljapurkar, whom they call “the handler.”

The 1,200 sq ft kitchen and the bar sit at eye level, so guests can see everything. Mickee recalls a night when Manuel tasted a dish at the pass and sent it back. Diners who saw it felt oddly special — something that never happens behind a closed kitchen door.

Manuel says the menu is 95 per cent different from BKC outpost, with only four dishes carried over, among them the gambas and the Bloody Mary ceviche.

It begins with pintxos. Expect patatas bravas, ham and cauliflower croquettes, pan con tomate, txangurro and a Gilda skewer with white anchovies sourced directly from Spain. “Every table orders something from here, for sure,” shared chef Olveira.

Chef Olveira once told us about packing two whole legs of Jamón Ibérico (Iberian ham), weighing nine kilograms each and cured for up to four years, safely tucked inside his suitcase. Now, there are more ingredients they want from Spain and elsewhere in Europe. To save themselves the trouble, the couple now holds their own import licence for Jamón Ibérico, Arbequina olive oil, manchego among other ingredients.

Then the plates arrive. Browned cauliflower with leeks, butter and cream is crusted in breadcrumbs and, in his signature style, generously topped with shaved manchego and black truffle. A burrata salad pairs heirloom tomato and tomato granita with gazpacho poured around it, tangy and creamy at once. The shio koji pork belly, on nearly every table, plays on the classic pairing of pork, apple and mustard. Roasted apple purée and Pommery mustard sit alongside charred cabbage, while a savoury coffee jus cuts through the richness. Crunchy green beans with poached pears over a nutty cashew emulsion are a quiet surprise.

The pizzas, made with 48-hour-fermented dough in a gleaming oven, come out beautifully charred. The scamorza rosso carries roasted peppers, sun-dried tomatoes and Kalamata olives, with garlic crisps adding another layer of flavour. To finish off the crusts, there are dips of jalapeño queso or garlic and herbs. The baked sea bass is the lighter turn, resting on enoki and cherry tomatoes with a fennel salad and seafood bisque, over pan-fried gnocchi that soaks up the bisque. The black bean stew with onion chimichurri, topped with corn fritters and whipped ricotta, is a substantial vegetarian option.

The bar is just as playful. The Sake-tini, with Junmai sake, bianco vermouth and hazelnut, starts quietly and grows on you. “Tiramisu but drunk” is dessert and nightcap in one, with espresso liqueur, dark rum, mascarpone and a coffee meringue. Teetotallers get teas and proper zero-proof cocktails, including a refreshing picante built on charred pineapple.

Among the desserts, their Apple Tarte Tatin deserves a special mention. Three-hour-baked apples sit on filo pastry with a little caramel, served alongside Calvados vanilla ice cream. The apple is so well done that you polish it off. Their Tiramisu, built on a ladyfinger base with a very well-done coffee ice cream beneath a mascarpone espuma, is just as good. The coffee meringues on the side are delicious — and dangerously addictive.

What the team wants most is to change how the neighbourhood dines. “The handle is La Panthera India, not Mumbai, because the flavours are familiar enough to travel, while La Loca Maria which is very close to Manuel’s heart stays a precious flagship,” shared Mickee, adding that here, Aperitivo hour starts at 5.30 pm with a drink and a few pintxos, the full menu begins at 7 pm, and late-night eats run until 1 am. “Or you can just have one drink and one bite.” The couple now hold their own import license for jamón ibérico, olive oil and manchego.

What the team wants most is to change how the neighbourhood dines. “The Instagram handle is La Panthera India, not Mumbai, because the flavours are familiar enough to travel, while La Loca Maria remains a precious flagship,” says Mickee. Here, aperitivo hour starts at 5.30 pm with a drink and a few pintxos, the full menu begins at 7 pm, and late-night eats run until 1 am.

“We’re not discovering Mars,” Mickee says with a laugh. Within 10 days of opening, the restaurant was already buzzing, with tables filled through the evening. The early response suggests South Bombay is warming up to La Panthera. Whether it will embrace the aperitivo hour — and the idea of Spanish-style dining beyond dinner — “only time will tell.”