Diary Of a Bar Owner
2 min readNov 18, 2016

This was so not planned. We never thought there will be a day when guests would come up to us to “meet someone” (yes thats correct)

In the bar ,meeting interesting people with common interests (read cocktails Jazz ,Quizzing, book reading et all ) was always a given. After all we actually do run a very friendly neighbourhood bar, and its very easy to walk up to us ( or anyone ) and have a chat. But us playing cupid, was the last thing on our mind! The number of people we have ended up introducing, and the number of “first” dates we have hosted is incredible! Part of which surely is the fact that we tend to provide easy conversations in a warm setting and of course our stellar cocktails. ( slow clap)

Simply put. Its not so much of an Indian thing to do, rather North Indian thing. We don’t actually stop to talk to strangers specially in bars where chances of meeting aggressive, drunk people is substantially high. We keep away, and that really is how its always been. Until now that is. Now everyone seems to be just too happy to share their stories, their hook ups, breaks ups, and in-betweens.

Very soon we realised making people meet, and if all goes to plan, to have them fall in love with each other, was a great side effect to running a bar!!

So far the score is at 5 happy couples and 2 happily ever afters! ( that we know of)

Diary Of a Bar Owner

A candid recount by co-founder of Cocktails & Dreams, Speakeasy, Sidecar and The Brook, all neighbourhood bars in very different neighbourhoods!