bengaluru: With spruced-up dives, classy cocktail bars and bigger-than-ever microbreweries, Bengaluru's drinking scene gets even more spirited
Before it became synonymous with traffic, one of Bengaluru’s identities— apart from the sedate “pensioners’ paradise” and “garden city”—was the cooler “pub city”. Draught beer was the precursor to craft beer—in the 1980s, it was a novelty, spawning a host of pubs on the central MG Road and Brigade Road. The city’s “pub culture”, says a 1987 India Today article, enthusiastically, “is bringing bubble and froth to the lives of many in the middle and upper class”.
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