Kolkata’s Little Bit Sober comes to Chennai’s The Park for a bar takeover

What if you could sample Kolkata’s Nahoum bakery’s heavenly fruit cake in Chennai…but in the form of a cocktail? 

On Saturday, Chennai will play host to a small piece of Kolkata’s cocktail culture, with a bar takeover by Little Bit Sober at The Park’s Leather Bar. Gyan Ranjan Barik and Biki, two of Little Bit Sober’s star bartenders, will be behind the bar here, to showcase and mix up cocktails from the Kolkata watering hole’s new Friends of the Bar menu. 

“We turned three in June this year, and Little Bit Sober has always been about building the culture of cocktails and supporting the community here in Kolkata,” says Rudradipta Mukherjee, founder, Little Bit Sober. “We have been working with different brands and establishments; both the young and the legendary to showcase the best of Kolkata, and our Friends of the Bar menu is an ode to the culinary landscape of our city,” he adds. 

In the bustling, historic neighbourhood of Chowringhee in Kolkata, Little Bit Sober is housed in an old office building that is seemingly frozen in time, with a bright blue boat-shaped bar, checkered bar stools and pops of red on the walls. The Friends of the Bar menu, which launched in Kolkata last month, features a tribute, to Kolkata icons which include Flurys, Nahoum, Craft Coffee, Fabelle and more. 

Four cocktails from this menu will be a part of the takeover in Chennai. The One From The Patisserie has Dewar’s blended whisky infused with flavours of Nahoum’s Christmas cake, spiced rum and almond milk. “Nahoums is legendary here and we wanted to bring out this flavor in one of our cocktails. Back at the bar in Kolkata, we have another cocktail inspired by the English breakfast at Flurys, complete with a tiny croissant as garnish,” Rudradipta says. 

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The Chennai menu will also have My Little Secret, a vodka, spice mix, cucumber seltzer and watermelon blend, and The One With The Sorbet, which brings together Hibiscus Camino Blanco Tequila, goji berries, genmaicha cordial, chia seeds and passion fruit. The gin cocktail named Friday, 7pm? will have a blend of citrusy flavour with cranberry tart and lime, topped off with salted litchi foam 

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In bright colors and with fun garnishes, Little Bit Sober’s Chennai bar takeover menu has its Instagram aesthetic sorted.

From 7pm onwards on October 25, at The Leather Bar, THE Park Chennai.