Entertainment in Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Tantra
Considered Kolkata’s top club, contemporary sounds throb through the single dance floor and not-so-chilled chill-out zone around a central-island bar with an overhead observation bridge.
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Flury’s
Great espressos (Rs60) and iced-tea (Rs60) layered like a tequila sunrise in an enticing art deco palace-cafe.
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Blue & Beyond Restaurant
The open-air rooftop terrace offers unusual views over New Market.
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Dolly’s Tea Shop
Teak-panels, rattan chairs, tea-crate tables and the regal presence of matriarch Dolly transform what would otherwise be just another unit in the dreary Dakshinapan Shopping Centre into a charming little oasis that attracts a wonderfully eclectic clientele. Toasted sandwiches or apple pie accompany over 50 choices of tea.
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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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Sisir Mancha
Kolkata’s famous poetry, music, art, film and dance are regularly showcased at the Nandan Complex comprising theatre halls Rabindra Sadan and Sisir Mancha, plus art-house Nandan Cinema.
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Nandan Complex
Kolkata’s famous poetry, music, art, film and dance are regularly showcased at the Nandan Complex comprising theatre halls Rabindra Sadan and Sisir Mancha, plus art-house Nandan Cinema.
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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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Rocks
Different floors offer different experiences of local drinking culture. The ground floor is a musty old-boys’ dive while the 2nd floor has proficient, if ear-splittingly loud, live Bengali music.
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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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Roxy
With unusually mellow music and a Clockwork Orange retro-futuristic atmosphere, Roxy is the most poised of several fun pub-bars around and within the Park Hotel.
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Ginger
Kolkata’s best hope for stags, Ginger can be fun with a group watching the majority-male clientele whoop to 1990s dance hits.
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Venom
Oscillating bars of vertical red light makes it feel like you’re dancing in a giant 1970s amplifier. Musical styles vary.
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Ashalayam
Play chess at low wicker tables while sipping cheap machine-frothed Nescafe in this calm, bright charity craft-shop cafe.
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Cafe Coffee Day
Cafe Coffee Day is the most appealing branch of the Starbucks-style chain thanks to its garden terrace.
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Someplace Else
Western rock and heavy-rock cover bands play nightly at the Anglo-pub Someplace Else. No cover charges.
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Marrakech
Moroccan-themed bar-club with octagonal tables and low, cushion-seated alcoves around a small, pulsating dance floor.
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New Empire Cinema
Of at least nine cinemas around New Market, New Empire Cinema is the most comfortable.
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Little High
Little High is a DJ bar which lacks a dance floor but spins similar contemporary sounds.
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Barista
Barista has numerous alternative branches, some cheaper, you can linger in air-conditioned comfort.
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