Enter Via Laundry Bar

Close your eyes. Picture the great cocktail capitals of the world. What do you see? New York? New Orleans? London? Tokyo? Melbourne? But what about Delhi? Mumbai? Not so much. Or not yet, at least. But if you’d like to get a taste of what Indian cocktail ambition might taste like, it’s right here, hidden in a nondescript shopfront on Nicholson Street. 

Spoiler alert: there is no laundry. This bar is an offshoot of a restaurant that started as a supper club. Its very earliest iteration, back when owner and chef Helly Raichura was first feeling her way out of life in HR and into cooking, was in her suburban home. Diners were greeted with a note stuck out the front pointing the way and so Enter Via Laundry – one of the great restaurant names of recent times – was born. It’s not a supper club any more, but that slightly secret air of discovery remains a key part of its DNA. So here at its new, more permanent home, there’s not much in the way of signage out on the street, but this new bar section lights the way.