The Slum Dog Caterers

The Slum Dog Caterers, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

This is the interior of a room in a shanty in the slums..at Bandra.

This is where the food served at spectacular weddings is cooked, even a few hotel guys get their stuff made here , and it is not cheap.

Chinese Moghlai and grilled kebabs are made by this caterers , most of the caterers in Bandra are from one single village in Uttar Pradesh.

Most of them are related and yet compete and bitch about each other.

There are a large number of caterers in Bandra spread over a large area from JJ Colony to Khoka Chawl.

The one near the Cross where the gutter overflows perennially cooks outside a little away from the flowing gutter waters.

Moid Kamru Ikbal Maksood bhai are the most popular caterers of Bandra predominantly migrants from UP.


Actually many years back they worked for the famous Bohra caterers as cooks seeing the money the Bohra caterers were charging they too went independent and by word of mouth their business spread.

Some bought their own houses in Bandra and became Pukka Mumbaikars.


I know most of them but I like Ikbal his food tastes good and he makes delicious stuff.

Most of the Muslim weddings food is supplied by these caterers , thy make a lot of money during the month of Moharam, as food is served as Niyaz in most of the places where Majlis is held be it a house or a mosque.

The other important month with a lot of significance in terms of food is Ramzan , this is the peak time for the caterers like Maksood Bhai who sell stuff for Iftar.

Birthdays other less significant feast days the caterer does have business..

Another time the caterer makes good money and loses good money is during the elections , election rally's , food is required for the slogan shouting crowds bought on hire and the political leaders managers but biryani for them.

Sometimes the political managers con the caterers of their had earned money by not paying them at all.

All in all this about the caterer's of Bandra West..