23-04-2025
Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani ditch home food once a week to relish...; Street food owner's turnover will shock you
There is a 60-year-old snacks shop in Mumbai, a favourite of even the country's biggest billionaire, Mukesh Ambani, and painter M.F. Husain, Mumbaikars' own 'Swati Snacks'. In 1963, a woman named Minakshi Jhaveri started a small establishment called 'Swati Snacks', selling Gujarati dishes. Minakshi started the shop with four tables to earn a living for her children and her family. Initially, they had just four dishes. She could not have imagined that it would later become a large multi-outlet restaurant chain. 'Swati Snacks' is currently a restaurant chain with a turnover of about Rs 4 crore.
Both Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani are true Gujaratis at heart, and they visit Swati Snacks once a week to relish their favourite street food like fafda, gathiya, jalebi, undhiyu, papad, chilla, and dhokla.
Reliance Industries Chairman and billionaire Mukesh Ambani and his family have also enjoyed Swati Snacks. Mukesh himself once revealed that three generations of his family have enjoyed dishes from Swati Snacks.
Famous painter M.F. Hussain's favourite dish at Swati Snacks was Sev Puri. Tabla player Zakir Hussain is a fan of Swati Snacks' Dahi Batat Puri. Apple CEO Tim Cook's vada pav from Swati Snacks was even in the news in the international media.
Swati Snacks offers a wide range of traditional dishes for food lovers. After the death of Meenakshi Jhaveri, who started the establishment in 1979, her daughter Asha took over the restaurant.
Swati Snacks was also listed in the list of the fifty best restaurants in Asia.
