Mumbai cafes with room to spread out

A laptop, a notebook, a coffee and a plate need more surface than a two-top by the door. These are the cafes recorded as having real table space.

  1. Bombay Coffee House4.0Built for people with laptops, and honest about it. The best odds in Bandra of a table, a plug and three quiet hours.
  2. Shelter Cafe x Coffee by Javaphile3.6Plug points at most tables and light from the right direction. A working cafe that also happens to be pleasant.
  3. Taj Mahal Tea House3.4Forty teas, eighty seats and soft light in a Bandra bungalow. Does dates and deadlines equally well.
  4. The Bagel Shop3.4Quiet, comfortable, and one of the few Bandra rooms where a two-person meeting is not a shouting match.
  5. The Yoga House3.4The quietest room in Bandra, in a bungalow behind Carter Road. Vegetarian, ayurvedic, genuinely calm.
  6. Blue Tokai — New Excelsior3.4Specialty coffee inside a 1930s cinema, with a terrace. The best-value work cafe in Fort.
  7. Araku Coffee3.4An 1897 building, a modbar, and a reading area someone actually curated. Behind the Taj, and worth finding.
  8. Kitchen Garden by Suzette3.2Fast wifi and a real salad, until the brunch crowd arrives at one and takes the quiet with them.
  9. Third Wave Coffee — Churchgate3.2Two minutes from Churchgate station and open absurdly late. The commuter's coffee.
  10. Earth Cafe3.1All-vegan, garden-quiet, and unbothered by how long you stay.
  11. Candies2.7Four decades of Bandra on several floors and a terrace. Closed Mondays, crowded weekends, worth both.