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With spruced-up dives, classy cocktail bars and bigger-than-ever microbreweries, Bengaluru’s drinking scene gets even more spirited

With spruced-up dives, classy cocktail bars and bigger-than-ever microbreweries, Bengaluru’s drinking scene gets even more spirited
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Synopsis

Before it became synonymous with traffic, one of Bengaluru’s identities— apart from the sedate “pensioners’ paradise” and “garden city”—was the cooler “pub city”. Draught beer was the precursor to craft beer—in the 1980s, it was a novelty, spawning a host of pubs on the central MG Road and Brigade Road. The city’s “pub culture”, says a 1987 India Today article, enthusiastically, “is bringing bubble and froth to the lives of many in the middle and upper class”.

By , ET Bureau
9 mins read, Last Updated:
When most people hear their favourite watering hole is downing its shutters, they will make a beeline to the bar, order a last round and drink to the memories of good times. But when Neil Quadras got wind that Dolphins, a dingy but friendly bar in Bengaluru’s Cantonment quarter that he frequented, was in imminent danger of becoming, of all things, a Darshini (serving idli, dosa and filter coffee), the 41-yearold couldn’t just sit back. Quadras
( Originally published on Apr 27, 2024 )

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