biography eatography leopold
Cafe_leopod
all. A large airy hall, with a high ceiling, opening flat out onto the
Causeway, this is the Mecca of weary travellers. A place to meet, to
swap stories and to write letters.
Those Flower Children of the 60s, who could not manage to make do with
love and fresh air alone and whose appetite for food often overtook
their hunger for nirvana, planted Leopold firmly on the lower-budget
tourist map. With the wilting away of these Flowers, back to boring,
normal lives in some Godforsaken suburbia, only the dregs remained at
Leopold. Just when this slide into sleaze seemed irreversible, and the
place looked set to become a strip joint, the change began. Slowly but
surely, lower budget foreign tourists started creeping in. Seeing this,
Bombay's own chatterati and arts crowd slid a jhola and a Kolhapuri
chappal in, and soon Leopold was seen as a cool place to lounge around
at. Fortunately, the management had the good sense to chivvy up their
act at the same time, and suddenly Leopold was thriving. Its never
looked back since.
The food on offer covers a wide range of cuisines, bound together by
the qualification that it must be palatable to foreigners. This makes
for strictly non-spicy food. Breakfasts are fun at Leopold, generously
served with the option of large glasses of fresh fruit juices. Lunch
and dinner fare include a mixture of Chinese, Iranian, tandoori, Parsi
and continental dishes. Something for everyone.
And someone for everyone as well. The crowd at Leopold caters to as
many 'palettes' as the food. African students sit around and smoke at
one table, next to a young beer-sipping Scandinavian couple flushed to
a lobster orange and poring meticulously over some guidebook. A group
of puffy eyed sailors stroll in with women of questionable intent, past
the stares of a group of Arab men, taking time off from their food to
do a little sightseeing.
In short, this guide is not worth the read, so, if you've reached upto
here, you gotta visit the place
Paste this link for a small peak in leopold.
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