Bar Name – Kit-Kat
Price of Beer - Rs.190
Location – Opp. Metro Adlabs, Marine Lines, Mumbai
Size of the Bar – Large
Place Availability – Relatively easy to get a table
Ambience – It's brand new but also extremely plain
Unique Plus Point – Bang opposite a movie theater
Rating – 3 out of 5 Beers
(Pictured: The Other Kit-Kat)
The single most dangerous staircase I have ever encountered in
my life has finally been demolished. And now, I really kind of miss it. It’s
odd that I should though, considering it made several attempts to murder me. The
damn thing has entire steps missing. Which doesn’t sound terrible, but it is
when you’re three drinks down. It’s been replaced by a much more ‘complete’
staircase in a bar that replaces one of the coolest joints in the city, a place
filled with character, style and flaws. The old Kit Kat.
Now of course, Kit Kat, bang across from Metro Adlabs, is
one of many. Just a template bar, that serves people who don’t particularly
care for all the things that made the old place what it was. They care about
functional air-conditioning, waiters that actually serve what you ordered, a TV
that’s been manufactured post-1985 and a staircase that works as advertised. They
wouldn’t like the old Kit Kat. They’d think it smelled funny (possibly
asbestos, I should see a doctor), they’d think the deep blue, near-Cubano style
interiors looked dingy and the pillars were just unneeded. But that place was
amazing! One of those bars that you never even had to keep a secret, on paper
it was honestly that terrible. But if
you sat down and had a drink there, you’d get it. You’d probably never come back
on account of the non-existent food menu, the prices and the fact that it
promptly shut down at 11, but you’d get it.
But enough nostalgia, what’s the new joint like? Well, as I said
before, it’s like everything else.
Expect the typical formica that you’d see literally
everywhere, the same prices and even the same waiters. Honestly, if you’re a
Sunlight regular, they literally have the same waiters. Mainly because it’s owned
by the same dudes who brought you that bastion for binge drinking Xavierite’s. It
has a regular section down below, an AC section upstairs and another smoking
section, which for some god forsaken reason insists on playing music loud
enough to cause resident complaints in Khar (Ha ha). No, but seriously it’s
stupid loud!
They have a big LCD TV that’s been religiously airing the
Kabbadi league and thankfully, outside of the smoking section, the place is proper
quiet. Good for conversation and the AC section sports a diverse enough crowd,
so the ladies seem welcome. The food and the drinks are direct pick-ups from
Sunlight, though I’m pretty sure the food here is better. Maybe it’s a mental
thing because this place has actual lighting and not just one bulb in the
corner.
(*Seriously, how the hell do you Xavierites drink there? Leave
me a comment)
The drinks are perfectly priced and the service is properly
good.
Ok. Now that the staple fare is out of the way, let’s get
down to the main reason you should be going to this bar, which incidentally is
the only reason I go to this bar. Because Metro Adlabs is literally 50 feet
away!
Have you ever watched a movie whilst blitz-out drunk? No?
You’re missing something there, champ. Missing something real good!
