SoBo20 Launches Sunday Brunch, A New Weekly Brunch Experience.
Mumbai, May 2026 - New Orleans has always had a way with Sundays, to fill every moment of celebration - with food that means something, music that moves, and the easy, unhurried pleasure of a table that nobody wants to leave.
SoBo20, Mumbai's Franco-American boîte and bar on Marine Drive, has taken that spirit and made it its own. Beginning from 17th May, the restaurant introduces its latest offering, the Sunday Brunch - a New Orleans and Louisiana-inspired Sunday afternoon interpreted entirely through SoBo20's singular Franco-American lens.
The SoBo20 Sunday Brunch is not a buffet, or a set menu. It is, quite simply, the Sunday you have been looking for - Unhurried, Luminous and Celebratory by nature, a rhythm that feels brighter, slower, and more alive, and unmistakably SoBo20 in its soul.
At the centre of the room, a grazing table sets the tone, whipped feta and brown butter cannellini pâté beside artfully composed salads like the Herbed Beetroot Salad, a generous cheese board, a warm bread display, the kind of spread that rewards lingering.
The cocktails come before you have to ask, and it leaves you wanting a second sip. The New Orleans Mary comes sharp and savoury with its salted rim and clarified spice, while the South Basil Smash feels made for long afternoons that stretch past intention. The Gin Paloma brings just enough heat to keep things interesting, and the Mango Martini among others is bright, cold and dangerously effortless, quickly becoming the drink nobody orders only once.
And then the room starts moving. Crisp Pizzettes; the Louisiana Curry Puff, filled with the holy trinity of Cajun cooking and molten Pepper Jack, served beside a chilli cheese dip that demands repeat visits; Stracciatella Crostini layered over sourdough with basil pesto and olive oil, delicate but impossible to stop reaching for; Chilli Cheese Hot Dogs; among other bites that arrive as the afternoon finds its pace. These are not amuse-bouches, they are the beating pulse of the brunch, confident, moreish and designed to circulate.
The mains arrive with intention. The Eggs Benedict, set over soft brioche with smoked ham, poached eggs and hollandaise, is rich without excess and deeply satisfying in the way only a classic can be. The Étouffée Rice Pilaf brings the soul of Louisiana to the table through Cajun spice, creole cabbage, charred corn and mixed vegetables, layered and warm. For those leaning toward the sea, the Citrus Sea Bass arrives bright and delicate under a Mediterranean sauce, while the Shrimp & Grits - sautéed shrimp over stone-ground creamy grits - delivers exactly the kind of Southern comfort a New Orleans-inspired brunch should. And then there is the Summer Lemon Tagliolini, the lightest thing on the table and, somehow, the one that stays with you longest. The kind of pasta that makes you forget it is summer, and then reminds you with every bite.
And then, as if the afternoon wasn't ready to let go, desserts arrive. The Chocolate Pâté needs no introduction, it anchors the table the way it always has and for good reason. Beside it, the In-house seasonal ice creams arrive as quieter pleasures, changing with the moment and designed to cool the long afternoon without interrupting it. And then comes the Banana Foster Turnovers, flaky, caramelised and impossible to share gracefully.
The experience, incomplete without its music, doesn't ask for your attention - it earns it. Jazz-house fills every corner of the room, upbeat without urgency, the kind of sound that makes the afternoon stretch and the table linger. This isn't background music, this is the room, breathing.
And that is precisely the point of a SoBo20 Sunday, not a meal you fit into your day, but the reason you shaped your day around it. Chic, but never trying. Social, but never loud. The kind of afternoon that steals three hours without anyone minding.
FACTSHEET:
Date - Every Sunday
Time - 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Address - Ground Floor, InterContinental Hotel, Marine Drive, Churchgate, Mumbai
Price - ₹ 2,950 per person - Food
₹ 3,950 per person - Food & Unlimited Cocktails and Beers (All prices exclusive of taxes)
Reservations - +91 7506229762
