Things to do / food to eat with kids in Mumbai

(most of this is from maya and PJ and what they liked doing in mumbai)

• Cooperage Pony Park (south mumbai)
• Mumbai Port Trust Joggers Park
• Chowpatty beach in the morning (its clean and deserted)
• Bandra bandstand park (on the water). The promenade walk is a couple of km's and has three playgrounds along the way and a Cafe Coffee Day at the end of the promenade.
• jechand talakshi toys (51 empire bldg, above mcdonalds at VT). A great selection of montessori based teaching materials.
• nehru science center, museum and planetorium. We did not get time to visit this, but it was high on our list
• Skip Byculla Zoo, Taraporevala Aquarium and Aquaria (unless u want to buy some aquarium supplies)
• Balodyan a playground for kids and women ONLY. This is near charni road station

Food and restaurants that are kid friendly

• Cholle Bhatura from Cream Center
• Natural IceCream
• Kulfi Falooda at Badshah (near crawford market)
• Sada (Plain) Dosa at any Udupi restaurant
• Pani Puri at Elko's (bandra). The kids can experiment and make their own pani puris and decide what goes in each puri
• Fresh Lime Soda or Lassi in any restaurant. A good alternative to water and not too unhealthy (if u regulate the amount of sweet syrup u add)
• Some snacks (chicken pattice, veggie quiche) from RTI (ratan tata institute, colaba)
• The bakeries carry quite good bread. We've bought good bread from Birdy's and CeleJour. La Pattisserie makes excellent cakes. Maya chose a chocolate truffle cake for her birthday which was very good