Mumbai FDA suspends Café Mondegar licence over hygiene lapses
Mumbai’s FDA has suspended the 94-year-old Café Mondegar’s licence over food-temperature, sanitation, drainage and structural violations. Nine other food-business licences were also suspended as regulators stepped up festive-season food-safety enforcement.
What happened
Mumbai FDA suspended Café Mondegar’s licence over hygiene and structural violations, including unsafe food temperatures, drainage and sanitation failures.
Key facts
- 94-year-old restaurant
- 10 establishment licences suspended
- Hot food temperature requirement: 60°C
- Cold storage temperature requirement: 5°C
- 110 self-help groups attended FDA-BMC workshop
Why this matters
Café Mondegar must rapidly remediate temperature-control, sanitation, drainage and structural failures to restore its licence while containing closure-related revenue loss and customer trust damage.
What to watch
- Mumbai FDA follow-up inspection date, findings and any conditions attached to licence restoration.
- Duration of closure and whether structural or drainage remediation requires major construction approvals.
- Publication of inspection reports, fines, prosecution notices or additional enforcement action.
- Customer sentiment, review-platform activity and social-media discussion of hygiene allegations.
- Further FDA festive-season inspections and licence suspensions among prominent Mumbai restaurants.