The Leopold Cafe & Bar shopfront on Colaba Causeway, under its red “Since 1871” sign
Inside Leopold: red chairs at close-set tables under the tall street windows

Leopold Cafe & Bar

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Since 1871. Keeps its bullet marks on the wall as a memorial and its doors open until midnight.

It is a landmark before it is a cafe, and it knows that. Worth a table for an hour if you understand what you are sitting in; not the place for a quiet conversation.

Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, Colaba Causeway, Colaba, Mumbai

Two directories list wifi and there is a quieter air-conditioned upstairs room, but cramped tables, loud music, queues outside and fast turnover make three hours unrealistic.