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Broadway Bar
Back-street Paris? Chicago 1930s? Prague 1980s? This cavernous, unpretentious old pub defies easy parallels but has a compulsive left-bank fascination. Cheap booze, 20 ceiling fans, grimy walls, marble floors and, thankfully, no music. Clientele 100% male.
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Chowringhee Bar
Not quite the colonial delight one might hope, but there's pleasant lighting, pool tables and soft live jazz some evenings. The next-door coffee shop stays open 24 hours.
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Copper Chimney Lounge
Chic 21st-century neo-Ottoman bar with hookah water-pipes, shimmering string-curtain dividers and mesmerising lighting effects. It's above a highly rated eponymous restaurant, behind HSCB bank. DJ at weekends.
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Fairlawn Hotel
Waving palms and an ideal location make the historic Fairlawn Hotel's calm garden café the perfect travellers' place for a cold brew (no spirits).
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Mirch Masala
Drinks and north Indian food served in a striking environment that's feels like a Bollywood Tex-Mex joint. Half a taxi-chassis has been added for good measure. Enter beneath Hotel Park Palace on Garcha 1st Lane, behind Pantaloons department store.
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Rabindra Sadan
Kolkata's famous poetry, music, art, film and dance are regularly showcased at the Nandan Complex (AJC Bose Rd) comprising the Rabindra Sadan and Sisir Mancha theatre-halls and an art-house cinema. Tourist Information offices and pamphlets give extensive listings of events here and at many other venues.
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Rocks
Three floors of bars guarded by snarling bouncers. The top has much the most inviting décor, its wavy ceiling inset with 'stars'. The live Bengali music is high quality but even higher decibel level. Predominantly male clientele.
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Roxy
With a Clockwork Orange retro-futuristic atmosphere, Roxy is the best (and most expensive) of several fun pub-bars around and within the Park Hotel, including Someplace Else and Aqua Bar.
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Tantra
Kolkata's high-voltage nightclubs are mostly within top hotels. Cover charges range Rs 300 to 1000 per couple, commonly redeemable for drinks. Single women often go free but single men (known as 'stags') are generally excluded unless a guest at the hotel. Tantra remains the city's top spot. The relatively small but throbbing dance floor faces an alluring if not-so-quiet chill-out zone across the large central island of bar.
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