Not since Salt Water Grill have we seen a better located restaurant than Seaface Cafe, which opened at the edge of Worli Seaface last month, a little eatery literally spilling into the ocean. It makes good use of the spectacular view too, with large, wide-paned windows that look out to sea and sparse red furniture – a Goa shack transplanted right into the belly of Midtown Mumbai.

There’s just one catch: we suggest you don’t actually eat here. For one, it is overpowered by the unfortunate smell from a public toilet situated right next door. And even if you have the olfactory chops to ignore that, we doubt that your stomach will stand up to the moldy tomato sandwich featured on the already scarred, shoddily laminated, pure vegetarian menu. Not even for you, dear reader, could we sample that.

The best thing to do is order a Cornetto or Coke, gaze out at the ocean for a moment and think wistfully of the restaurant this could have been, if it weren’t for the grimy kitchen, the lack of a liquor licence, the fragrance from an unwashed Sulabh. The possibilities are dazzling, endless, tantalizingly out of reach. “Maybe next year,” one of us Scouters sighed. Or next month. With the ever-changing, ever-surprising culinary carousel that is Mumbai, you never know.

Getting there: Worli Seaface, opposite Worli Dairy, Rs 30 for a sandwich.