Conversation Room

Kolkata, India

Conversation Room opened in November 2024 on the ground floor of Edward Court, a century-old building on Chowringhee Road, as the neighborhood bar of co-owners Abhimanyu Maheshwari and Ramesh Agarwal. The room keeps a deliberately unpolished look, exposed walls hung with mismatched art and pop culture posters, and the music stays low enough to talk over; a Class Room series brings in speakers on subjects from storytelling to free speech. Pankaj Balachandran of Countertop India designed the launch cocktail menu, with the Eavesdropper, tequila with Cointreau, cranberry and Schezwan sauce, and the Smooth Talker, scotch with vanilla, caramel liqueur and bitters, next to a wine wall of ten wines. Bar heads Arka Das and Sarbani Mukherjee run the counter.