Bayroute Powai takes its inspiration from the Mediterranean coast, carrying its light and unhurried pace into the room rather than the evening, lantern-lit register found elsewhere in the Bayroute family.

The ceiling is the room's signature feature, a series of arched brass fixtures shaped like palm fronds that fan out overhead in a continuous rhythm, catching daylight in a way Bayroute's other outlets, built for candlelight, don't. Beneath them, a black and white checkerboard floor runs the length of the room, a deliberately graphic move rather than a natural or textured one, setting up a tension the rest of the space plays with.

The walls take on a soft pink salmon tone, warm and sun-bleached, set against emerald green tiling that wraps the bar front, a jewel-toned contrast that gives the room its visual anchor. Where the floor is sharp and graphic, the palette above it is soft and organic, pink against green, brass against black and white, the room built on that push and pull rather than any single mood. Timber chairs and greenery worked through the space add a looser, more natural counterweight to the floor's geometry, while an arched threshold frames the bar and echoes the rhythm of the ceiling above.

Bayroute Powai is one of several Bayroute outlets across Mumbai, each drawing from a different corner of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern world. This one brings the sea inland, rendered in graphic black and white underfoot and soft, sun-warmed colour above.