There is a doorbell at the top of a flight of wooden stairs in Bandra. It is small and entirely unassuming , the kind you might find outside a friend's flat rather than a dining destination. That, of course, is precisely the point.
Behind it is The Find Atelier, a 25-seat supper club founded by sisters Aalisha and Riona Sable, and one of the most quietly compelling openings Mumbai has seen in recent memory. It launched this spring in a restored 140-year-old building, and yet positioning it as a "new restaurant" would be to miss what it actually is. The Find Atelier is less a place to eat than a place to be, and in a city where those two things have rarely felt more different, the distinction matters enormously.
The Mumbai Supper Club Magic
Mumbai's appetite for supper clubs has been building for years. What began as a niche, pandemic-era experiment with intimate gatherings, home kitchens, limited seats, has evolved into one of the most energised formats in the city's culinary landscape. The appeal is not difficult to understand. In an era of digital fatigue, punishing commutes, and restaurants that can feel interchangeable in their anonymity, there is something genuinely radical about a dining room with twenty-five chairs, a single long table, and a host who knows your name before you sit down.
But what the Sable sisters have built is more specific than a trend, and more personal than a concept. Aalisha, the chef and co-founder, trained across Dublin and Italy before returning to India with a palate shaped by travel and a sensibility shaped by home. Her cooking resists easy categorisation , elevated comfort food is the closest shorthand, though it undersells the emotional intelligence at work in each dish. Riona, the creative director and co-founder, studied hospitality in Switzerland and brings a background in photography and visual arts to bear on every surface and shadow in the room. "Aalisha is the artist," Riona has said. "And I see myself as the gallerist."
It shows. The space , all warm wood, layered textures, candlelight, and objects gathered from travels across Berlin, Paris, and beyond , feels genuinely inhabited rather than designed. White cotton tablecloths. Fresh flowers. The faint sound of trains passing in the distance, just enough to remind you that you are still, somehow, in Mumbai.
Before dinner begins, guests are invited to linger at the bar — an unhurried preamble that sets the tone for everything that follows. It is the kind of drinking that encourages conversation rather than filling the silence between it. On the evening of the opening menu, the signature cocktail of choice was a fig and gin, dusted with powdered fig leaf, aromatic, slightly earthy, and quietly elegant. It tasted like an introduction to what Aalisha was doing in the kitchen, something familiar made unexpectedly interesting.
On The Menu
The menu changes entirely each month, which is both a creative statement and a quiet act of generosity towards returning guests. For their opening, Aalisha built a menu around seasonal produce, including figs from the family farm near Pune, which happened to be finishing their final harvest as the kitchen was taking shape. The result was a seven-course tasting menu that moved from a savoury Coorg pepper madeleine which is delicate, spiced, served on a mirror with a smoked tomato and anchovy chutney, through to a mascarpone gelato grounded by those same figs. In between - a heavenly 80% hydration roll topped with jakhia (wild mustard) seeds alongside a miso butter courtesy Brown Koji Boy. A raw mango carpaccio that tasted like childhood summers made elegant; a hash brown with wild mushroom pate that was unexpectedly indulgent, a main of fragrant Indrayani rice congee topped with buttery soft pork belly and a soy-marinated egg that balanced comfort with real finesse. The petit fours, which the Sables reframe as their "petit three," closed the meal with an orange cake which was delicate but moreish, a piña colada jelly that strikes a better balance than most cocktails, and a chocolate bombolini that arrived warm and generous.
It was, in short, the kind of meal you keep returning to in your mind. Not because any single dish was pyrotechnic, but because the whole thing had a sense of authorship. You could feel someone thinking about you.
A One Of A Kind Find
That intimacy is not incidental. It is the entire proposition. At The Find Atelier, guests do not choose from a menu; they are hosted within one. The format, one sitting, one table, one evolving narrative per month, strips away the transactional quality that defines so much contemporary dining and replaces it with something that feels closer to participation. You are not consuming an experience. You are, briefly, part of one.
This is what younger Mumbai diners are increasingly seeking, and what the supper club format, at its best, is uniquely able to provide. Exclusivity, in this context, is not about price or prestige, though The Find Atelier, at between ₹5,000 and ₹7,000 per head, sits comfortably in the premium bracket. It is about scarcity of a different kind: of attention, of craft, of an evening that actually asks something of you in return. Conversation. Presence. A willingness to sit beside a stranger and find, by the end of the night, that they were wonderful company.
And they were. There is a particular alchemy that occurs over the course of a long, unhurried dinner at a communal table, one that is difficult to engineer and impossible to fake. Conversation, which began politely between neighbours, gradually loosened and spread down the length of the table as the courses arrived and the candles burned lower, rivulets of wax tracing slow paths down their sides. By the time the petit three landed, the room felt less like a restaurant and more like the tail end of a family dinner, the kind where nobody is quite ready to leave, and nobody particularly needs to say why.
Beyond its weekend dining programme, the Sables intend for The Find Atelier to function as a platform, hosting pop-ups, artistic collaborations, and cultural gatherings that extend the space's life beyond the table. The vision is of a third space for creative exchange, one that values context and character above footfall and scale.
For now, though, the thing it does best is simpler than any of that. It makes you feel, for the duration of a meal, that someone went to considerable trouble to have you over. In a city that rarely slows down for anyone, that is no small thing.
Address: 2nd Floor, V.P, Jer Mansion, B-12, Waman Pundlik Warde Marg, Bandra West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400050
The Find Atelier is open Friday to Sunday in Bandra, Mumbai. Menus change monthly.