Lunch Break
Butter Garlic Crab Is Rich Treat Inspired by Hotspot in Mumbai
Chef Will Bowlby’s simple recipe offers indulgent taste of India.
Butter Garlic Crab prepared by Will Bowlby.
Photographer: Hugh Johnson
British chef Will Bowlby fell in love with buttered garlic crab when he spent two years in the Kala Ghoda district of south Mumbai.
He worked in a kitchen near the famous Trishna seafood restaurant, which is a destination for this signature dish. At Trishna, you don an apron and get down and dirty extracting the buttery crab meat. When Bowlby returned to London, he served a version out of the shell at Kricket restaurant, which he opened in a shipping container in Brixton in 2016.