Colaba Causeway is Mumbai's most famous shopping and eating street — a commercial corridor in the Colaba district south of the Gateway of India that combines street vendors (selling everything from jewellery and clothing to antiques and bootleg Bollywood DVDs), colonial-era cafés, and the tourist-oriented commerce of a neighbourhood that has been Mumbai's first point of contact with visitors since the days of the steamship.
The cafés along the Causeway — Leopold Café (a backpacker institution since the 1970s and a target in the 2008 attacks, whose bullet holes are preserved in the walls), Café Mondegar (with murals by cartoonist Mario Miranda), and Theobroma (the bakery whose brownies have a citywide cult following) — provide the social infrastructure of a neighbourhood that functions as Mumbai's living room for both residents and visitors.
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Colaba Causeway is in the southernmost district of Mumbai
Leopold Café was targeted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks
Café Mondegar features murals by Mario Miranda
The Causeway has been Mumbai's main tourist street for decades
Get walking directions
Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Colaba, Mumbai, 400005, India
