Linking Road
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Borivali
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in Mumbai
Mumbai
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. It is famous for its shopping. Many people come from all over Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
, the Thane Dombivali Belt, and Bhiwandi Dombivali belt, and outside to shop on Linking Road. One can find everything from international brands to clever fakes to cheap Chinese goods here. There is a mix of departmental stores, brand outlets, street-side carts and regular shops that sell mainly clothes and accessories. One can also find many restaurants and cafes dotted along the miles long stretch of this road.
Though its official name has been "Vitthalbhai Patel Marg" for a very long time, everyone in Mumbai still prefers to call it "Linking Road". The original name was Dadabhai Navroji road.
The road starts from the 5-way cross-roads near the Hindustan Petroleum
Hindustan Petroleum
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited , is an Indian state-owned oil company headquartered at Mumbai, India and is a Fortune 500 company of India listed at number 336....
petrol pump, the roads being S.V. Road, Bandra station road, Perry Cross Road and Linking Road. Around this cross-road are located the HP petrol pump and Bank of Baroda
Bank of Baroda
Bank of Baroda is the third largest bank in India, after the State Bank of India and the Punjab National Bank and ahead of ICICI Bank. BoB is ranked 763 in Forbes Global 2000 list. BoB has total assets in excess of Rs. 3.58 lakh crores, or Rs. 3,583 billion, a network of over 3,409 branches and...
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If you continue north along Linking Road, you will pass restaurants like Sheetal Samudra and the Double-Bull jeans shop along with some small furniture-wallahs before coming on another cross-road. This cross-road has the Bharat Petroleum
Bharat Petroleum
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited is a state-controlled oil and gas company headquartered in Mumbai, India. In 2011, Fortune Global 500 ranked the company of 272.- History :...
petrol pump. If you turn right at this intersection and go straight, crossing SV Road, you will reach Gaiety, Galaxy cinema. If you turn left, you'll come across an Enfield
Royal Enfield
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showroom and Bhargava's music shop (the latter has some of the best music instruments available in the suburbs, past these you reach Waterfield Road where you will have Zenzi
Zenzi
Zenzi by Realfood was a Norwegian fast food chain store. The word "Zenzi" originated from the English word "sensible" and "zenith", which refers to "peak" or "altitude" and the Japanese word "zen" which means "good", "real" and "complete"...
and the Gas
Gas
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showroom to your right and Red Box
Red Box
Red Box are a British pop group first active from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, founded by Simon Toulson-Clarke and Julian Close. They scored two UK Top Ten hits with the singles "Lean on Me " in 1985 and "For America" in 1986, both of which were included on their debut album The Circle & the...
restaurant to your left. Further down to the right, along Waterfield road, South, you will see Seijo restaurant, and beyond that, Perry Cross road.
Back on Linking Road, past this intersection, heading north, you come upon a larger intersection where RD National college is located. The shopping zone really starts beyond this intersection. The first 50 metres to the left is completely filled with little stalls selling ladies' shoes. Also on the same route are the stores: Scandal
Scandal
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being the first on the right, then Metro, Adidas
Adidas
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, etc among many others and clothes shops like Van Heusen.
This stretches some 200 metres, along the way one would pass McDonald's
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...
and KFC
KFC
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until the MTNL Khar
Khar
Khar may refer to:* Khar, Punjab is a town in the Punjab Province, Pakistan* Khar, Bajaur is a town in the Bajaur Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan...
office intersection is reached. The first of 3 Adidas
Adidas
Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, TaylorMade-Adidas golf company , and Rockport...
shoe shops is located here. Also, there are the Fila
Fila (company)
Fila is one of the world's largest sportswear manufacturing companies. Founded in 1911 in Italy, Fila has been owned and operated from South Korea since a takeover in 2007. Headed by chairman and CEO Yoon-Soo Yoon, Fila now has offices in 11 countries worldwide....
, Proline
Proline
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& Raymond
Raymond
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showrooms. Offices of Raheja Constructions are also located along this stretch. This intersection marks the boundary between Bandra and Khar
Khar
Khar may refer to:* Khar, Punjab is a town in the Punjab Province, Pakistan* Khar, Bajaur is a town in the Bajaur Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan...
.
Beyond this, located are the Nike
Nike, Inc.
Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...
, Reebok
Reebok
Reebok International Limited, a subsidiary of the German sportswear company Adidas since 2005, is a producer of Athletic shoes, apparel, and accessories. The name comes from the Afrikaans spelling of rhebok, a type of African antelope or gazelle...
showroom, Mufti showroom, Dockers
Dockers
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showroom, Axis bank
Axis Bank
Axis Bank Limited, formerly UTI Bank, is a financial services firm that had begun operations in 1994, after the Government of India allowed new private banks to be established...
, Standard Chartered Bank
Standard Chartered Bank
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, Louis Philippe
Louis Philippe
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, Citibank
Citibank
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, Wills Lifestyle, Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank
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, a large Bennetton showroom, GKB Opticals
GKB Opticals
GKB Opticals, is a large Indian retailer of optical products , and operates multiple retail stores in India...
spectacles show-room, an OSIM
Osim
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showroom, Lewis
Lewis (disambiguation)
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, Spykar etc.
At the end of Linking Road, at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz (Mumbai)
Santacruz or Santa Cruz is a section of the municipality of Mumbai. The Santacruz railway station on the Mumbai Suburban Railway, the Domestic Terminal of the Mumbai Airport and one campus of the University of Mumbai are all located in Santacruz....
, you have a 4-way intersection. If you head straight, North, you come upon a residential area. To your right, the road connects you with SV Road. To your left, you will see the Air India
Air India
Air India is the flag carrier airline of India. It is part of the government of India owned Air India Limited . The airline operates a fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft serving Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. Its corporate office is located at the Air India Building at Nariman...
park with its concrete mock-up of an Air-India plane, this will lead you down to Juhu past Vie Lounge, Sun n Sand hotel etc.