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The Bengal Club epitomizes elegance. It also stands for finely matured tradition and epicurean excellence. Time slows down somewhat when people go through the portals of this magnificent white edifice in the heart of bustling Calcutta. Here, the unchanged stately splendour of another era is all pervasive. Even the most hurried high-flying corporate chiefs and business people fall in with its adagio pace. It is that kind of club - where the flavours of fine life are to be savoured as in a brandy snifter. You dine and relax and read and relax some more. And entertain in serene splendour.
 

 

Everything at the Club has a history and a special significance. The present premises belonged originally to Lord Macaulay and even the dramatic logo of the Club, a cobra with its hood raised is part of an interesting legend. It was borrowed from the personal seal of Lord Metcafe, although people have over the years, attributed various stories to this. One such piece of lore has it that when laborers were digging the site, there emerged a king cobra which refused to go away. It was propitiated by a priest and it finally left the site.