Leopold Cafe
Irani cafe open since 1871, with preserved bullet holes from the 2008 terror attacks on its walls.
This guide to Leopold Cafe in Mumbai starts with the bullet holes still visible in its walls and mirrors, left there on purpose after gunmen opened fire from Colaba Causeway on the evening of November 26, 2008. It traces the cafe back to 1871, when the Zoroastrian Jehani family, Iranis whose ancestors emigrated from Iran, founded it as a wholesale cooking oil store that grew into one of Colaba's great gathering rooms. Along the way it touches the trivia of the cafe's name, borrowed from a Belgian king, and its later fame as a setting in Gregory David Roberts' novel Shantaram. Ask a waiter inside and they can still point out exactly where each mark on the wall came from.
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