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  1. AMPM
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    AMPM

    AMPM occupies the fifth floor of Park Centre on Park Street, a Bright Hospitality room co-founded by Rajan Sethi, a coffee bar by day that turns into a cocktail bar with live music after dark. The Art Deco-inspired space pairs rattan and tufted sofas with checkerboard tiles and an island counter split between coffee station and bar, with a stage in the main seating area for singers and bands. Ngarum, the house coffee brand, serves single-origin beans from Nagaland, and its espresso goes into the Before PM Martini with tequila and Bengali chili liqueur. The AMPM Old Fashioned builds on Aberfeldy 12, nolen gur, orange and bitters, and the AM Mint Snap pairs coconut-washed gin with cocoa-infused cola.

    5th Floor, Park Centre, 24 Park Street, Kolkata, West Bengal 700016
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  2. Conversation Room
    Cocktail Bar

    Conversation Room

    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.

    Unit 11, Ground Floor, Edward Court, 55 Chowringhee Road, Elgin, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020Sun-Thu 12pm-12am, Fri-Sat 12pm-2am
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  3. Little Bit Sober
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    Little Bit Sober

    Little Bit Sober is a cocktail bar on the second floor of an 1890 building at 60 Chowringhee Road, opened in 2023 by co-founder Rudradipta Mukherjee and his partners as a stage for Kolkata's bartending community. A bright red door leads to a long, boat-shaped bar counter that runs the length of the 1,800 square foot room. The drinks lean on Bengal: a Ghee Rice Old Fashioned built on gobindobhog rice and ghee-washed scotch, a Tomato Kasundi with clarified kasundi, tomato vodka and celery soda, a Gondhoraj Grapefruit on tequila. The third menu, Friends of the Bar, pays tribute to Calcutta institutions such as Flurys, Nahoum's and the Paramount sherbet shop.

    2nd Floor, 60 Chowringhee Road, Bhowanipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020Sun-Thu 4pm-12am, Fri 4pm-1am, Sat 4pm-2am
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  4. Nutcase Etc.
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    Nutcase Etc.

    Nutcase Etc. calls itself a teeny tiny cocktail parlour: a 650 square foot room in Kalighat, below Skinny Mo's Jazz Club, with 35 seats around a counter where bartenders work in the middle and guests circle them. Founders Rituparna and Avinandan Banerjee gave it an interior Homegrown called Bauhaus gone bonkers. Tangra Town tastes like Indian-Chinese takeout, built on chicken broth, scallion, bell pepper and soy; The Joker stirs brandy with plum ratafia, tonka and chocolate bitters under a cold brew float; Sushi? mixes Bombay Sapphire, sake, nori, gari and mirin, and Papaya Got Goated pairs goat cheese with papaya liqueur. Five-spice smoked eggs and a butter garlic crab dip come from the kitchen.

    Ground Floor, 91 Manohar Pukur Road, Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal 700029
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  5. Sorano
    Restaurant Bar

    Sorano

    Sorano is an Italian restaurant and cocktail bar on the first floor of Harrington Mansion on Ho Chi Minh Sarani, run by Manifest Hospitality around the idea of vivi il momento, the unhurried moment. Arched windows, a floral chandelier and a palette of pink, ivory and timber set the room, and a Pasta Fresca window shows the kneading and folding of fresh pasta. The bar keeps preservatives out of its drinks, measures sugar on a Brix scale and makes its own vermouth rosso, limoncello and allspice dram; the kitchen and bar fold Indian twists into Italian flavors, as in the Pesto Smash built on Bombay Sapphire. Wood-fired pizzas and pastas such as the quail agnolotti come from the kitchen.

    1st Floor, Harrington Mansion, 8 Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kankaria Estates, Kolkata, West Bengal 700071Daily 12pm-12am
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