Trincas at 100: How the Kolkata restaurant plans to use its past as a springboard to the future
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Each wall of the 99-year-old Trincas, a Kolkata icon, resonates with history. There are photos of prominent patrons, popular entertainers who have performed here and Park Street scenes from decades ago.
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But Trincas does not just serve up a flavour of the past. For many in Kolkata, the first visit to Trincas is a coming-of-age experience. It is an induction into excess – of good food, good music, perhaps the first sip of liquor.
As the famed establishment gears up to celebrate its centenary in 2027, Anand Puri, a third-generation managing partner of Trincas, faces a challenge: how to ensure that the restaurant that is a part of a million memories stays relevant in the decades ahead.
He has some ideas. He’s redesigned the restaurant logo – heart-shaped, it features a halo, roses, a sash, a mic, and champagne flutes clinking. He’s ensuring that old favourites such as chicken à la Kiev and lobster thermidor still taste the way they always have.
A touchpoint of history
But most of all, he knows that his restaurant’s storied past is the springboard to its future. To try to understand the Trincas mystique, Puri in 2019 started The Trincas Timeline Project to tap into the memories of long-time patrons.
It soon became an “internet phenomenon”. Stories began...