A new resto-bar called Short Stories will open tomorrow on Linking Road in Khar, in the space where Once Upon a Dine once stood. F&B entrepreneurs Suraj and Anisha Bajaj have partnered with industry veterans Gaurav Dabrai (remember Copa?) and Rihad Mistry — who gave the city nightclubs like Athena and Tryst — to give the suburbs a bit of a kitsch-meets-retro vibe, as we were to find out.

From the get-go, the walls are a psychedelic canvas [read: Ghetto, Toto’s Garage] — beginning with a colourful spray-painted wall and light installations along the vertical stretch of al fresco. Inside, a row of bar seatings has a subdued mood, if not for a mural of Jim Morrison reimagined as Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man on the ceiling.