>If you are on road in late night whatever be the reason (night show movie watching etc.) and you started to feel hungry, the saying 'money can get you anything' comes true (including love) in Mumbai city.

Salt 'N' Pepper (Ambassador Hotel): The service is 24-hour, and there are two kinds of menu. The 'fixed time menu', for the time when most of us are up and about, and the 'midnight menu', for the denims of the dark.

Coffee Shop (Centaur, airport): This shop serves sandwiches, burgers, pizzas, omelettes and, of course, soup, which should be a welcome relief after a wet evening. There is also curry rice, but no rotis. Right now this seems to be the place to be eating at, since they also have a 33 percent discount going. The crowds are of the airline variety.

Shoreline (Centaur, Juhu): They serve the usual sandwiches, snacks and burgers, Shoreline also offers fried fish items and grilled prawns at this outrageous hour. There is also biryani, liquor is served.

The monsoon has slackened the crowds, but the disco crowds still strong.

Manhattan (Guestline): One can find here soups, sandwiches, burgers, fish, chicken stroganoff, Chicken Nebraska and cheese cutlets. There is also Indian food for the hungry. Beer is served till 2 am. There is apparently a lot of foreign crowd besides the disco gores, the airline crowd and the cost is reasonable.

Sidewalk (Holiday Inn): They serve sandwiches and pizzas etc. On the Indian side of the menu, there is rice, chicken, biryani. Naans can also be available. A popular joint with the discogoers.

Waterfall Cafe (Leela): Easily the most picturesque locale to be spending your time in preferred company. Soups, desserts and beverages is the routine here, there is also a regular continental and Indian menu to choose from.

Their speciality is in seafood, they serve their catch of the day well beyond mid-night. Alcohol is available till 1 am, and beer till 4 am. They also keep milkshakes and coffee.

The Bay View (Marine Plaza): This coffee shop, is already a rave among the night-time movers and shakers.

The Palms (Oberoi Towers): This is for the well-heeled, and of course, the really well-pursed. Both Continental and Indian foods are available, and this is also the only place where the tandoor range is available for all 24 hours. They also keep the usual chicken, burgers and the rest. There is also lasagne.

Trattoria (Hotel President): They serve Italian cuisine. It is not that they don't have other stuff like sandwiches and burgers, they do.

There are two kinds of menu, one is the normal one and the restaurant serves accordingly, then there is the restricted one, which comes into play around midnight.

Make Waves (Retreat): They serve snacks after midnight. It means sandwiches and burgers. Rice is also available, Biryanis too.

Shamiana (The Taj): Pizzas, and the rest are served here. No dosas, etc. Spaghetti is on, and fewer rice items than one sees on the regular menu. No roti, no liquor.