India, Oct. 31 -- Twelve years after a blaze ripped through a lounge bar in VN Sphere mall along Linking Road in Bandra, a fire broke out at an eatery in the same mall on Friday. The fire was reported early in the morning and was confined to the kitchen and dining area of the chain eatery, Foo Asian Tapas. It was extinguished by 9am, with no casualties reported.

By evening, when Hindustan Times visited the mall, it was business as usual on floors not affected by the blaze, though the entire ground plus five storey commercial building reeked of smoke. A narrow staircase outside Foo was partially blocked, hampering movement, and two elevators which were shut for a few hours after the fire, requiring consumers to take the stairs, were back ...