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Mumbai: 50 duped with bookings for closed floating diner
Updated On: 14 December, 2023 06:51 AM IST | Mumbai | Shirish Vaktania
AB Celestial’s owner registers FIR against unknown scammer who put up fake listing on Google for restaurant on yacht that has been closed since lockdown
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The yacht that houses the restaurant in the Arabian Sea. File pic/Shadab Khan
The Bandra police are on the hunt for an unidentified scammer who is taking online bookings for Mumbai’s first floating restaurant, AB Celestial, which shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic. The scammer created a fake page for the restaurant on Google and is suspected to have conned around 50 people by charging them for reservations.
AB Celestial was India’s first luxury dining restaurant on a yacht. The boat, located in the Arabian Sea 500 metres from the toll plaza of Bandra Worli Sea Link, included a banquet hall and rooftop bar. AB Celestial was owned by Chetan Vilas Bhende, who opened the restaurant in 2016. The restaurant was in business until April 2021. While Bhende wanted to reopen the establishment, after the lockdown ended, the jetty was taken over by the government for the construction of the Coastal Road project in 2022.
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