Moody speakeasy bar interior at night, rows of backlit liquor bottles glowing brass-amber against near-black shadow

Members' Ledger · No. 000

The house keeps a ledger.
Your name goes in it.

A speakeasy of ledgered cocktails, kept off the record. Behind an unmarked brass door in Bengaluru, each drink is entered by hand, poured low and slow — and forgotten by morning.

Request an entry Read the ledger

Reservations only · Wednesday to Sunday · From 7 in the evening

Dark back-bar shelving stacked with spirit bottles under low, secretive lighting, deep shadow and warm gold highlights

The Story

A bar that would rather not be found

In the winter of 2019, a retired auditor and a stubborn bartender took a lease on a forgotten cellar off Richmond Road — the kind of room the city had quietly misplaced. They kept the ledger she'd used for thirty years and repurposed it: no debits, no credits, only cocktails, entered one by one in a careful hand.

There is no signage. There is no menu online. Every guest who passes the brass door earns a line in the book — a number, a name, a drink — and the promise that whatever is said inside stays there. We keep twelve seats and a long memory.

  • 12seats, per sitting
  • 37spirits on the back bar
  • 0walk-ins, ever

The Signature Block

The Cocktail Ledger

Each drink is recorded the night it is poured — number, name, spirit and the notes our keeper scratched in the margin. Ask for one by its entry.

  1. 01 The First Entry Rye whiskey Burnt orange, black walnut bitters, oleo saccharum. Stirred cold, served naked. ₹850
  2. 02 Off The Record Aged rum Molasses, smoked cardamom, a whisper of spent coffee. Dark and unhurried. ₹780
  3. 03 The Silent Partner Botanical gin Cucumber ash, dry vermouth, torn bay leaf. Bracing, clean, secretive. ₹820
  4. 04 Oxblood & Oath Smoky mezcal Hibiscus, an oxblood reduction, kaffir lime leaf. Deep red, a little dangerous. ₹880
  5. 05 Ledger No. 9 Aged cognac Fig, saffron, tawny port. Our most requested line — worth the wait for the pour. ₹950
  6. 06 The Accountant's Sour Bourbon Palm jaggery, tamarind, egg white. Balanced to the last decimal. ₹800
  7. 07 Midnight Audit Peated scotch Wild honey, clove smoke, a single ember of orange. Poured near closing. ₹920
  8. 08 The Velvet Line Craft vodka Blackberry, violet, dry sparkling. The lightest entry in the book. ₹760

Prices in Indian Rupees, inclusive of the house pour. A non-alcoholic ledger is kept for the sober-curious — ask your keeper. Government taxes as applicable.

Classic whiskey cocktail over a clear ice cube with a cinnamon stick, amber liquid glowing on a moody near-black background
No. 01 — The First Entry
Deep oxblood-red cocktail in a coupe garnished with herbs on a glossy black surface, elegant and dramatic
No. 04 — Oxblood & Oath

The Larder

Small plates, to keep the ledger honest

A short kitchen, run by a shorter menu. Everything is made to be shared across a low table and eaten with your fingers, in the dark, mid-conversation.

Two cut-crystal glasses of amber whiskey resting on a dark surface, brass-toned reflections and low ambient light
  • Brass-toasted almonds₹350

    Smoked, salted and tumbled in a warm spice we won't write down.

  • Pepper-fried chicken livers₹480

    Crisp, black-peppered, finished with burnt lime and curry leaf.

  • Aged cheddar & black garlic₹520

    Two-year cheddar, black garlic jam, a snap of malt cracker.

  • Charred sweet corn₹390

    Fire-blistered, rolled in curry-leaf butter and a squeeze of lime.

  • Beef short-rib toast₹640

    Twelve-hour rib, oxblood glaze, on charred sourdough.

  • Dark chocolate & sea salt₹420

    A slab of bitter ganache, flaked salt, a shot of cold espresso alongside.

Bartender shaking a cocktail behind a dim bar counter surrounded by spirits and bar tools, moody low-key lighting

The Keeper of the Ledger

Ravindra "Ravi" Menon

Head Bartender & Founding Partner

For fifteen years Ravi worked the late shift across Bengaluru's quietest bars before opening his own. He learned classical technique from a Tokyo ice-carver and the value of a good margin note from his co-founder's old audit ledgers. He pours by feel, remembers your last order, and will never tell you it's on the house.

"A cocktail is just a promise you can taste. Write it down, and you have to keep it."

— Ravi, with Aisha Qureshi, Proprietor

Entries in the Margin

What the regulars keep coming back to say

"You knock, you wait, and then the whole city goes quiet on the other side of that door. I've never wanted to leave a bar less."

Naina R. — Indiranagar

"The only ledger in Bengaluru I'm genuinely happy to have my name in. The Accountant's Sour is a religious experience."

Karan D. — journalist & regular

"Low light, impossibly high craft. Ravi remembered a drink I'd ordered eight months earlier. That's the whole trick, isn't it?"

Meera S. — chef

Find the Door

If you know, you knock

There is no sign. Look for the brass door between the tailor and the shuttered watch-shop, three steps down. Ring once. Give the name in your ledger entry. We'll take it from there.

The address
Behind the brass door
14 Wellington Lane, off Richmond Road
Bengaluru 560025, India
The hours
Wednesday – Sunday · 7:00pm – 1:00am
Closed Monday & Tuesday
Last entry 12:15am
The house rules
Reservations only · Twelve seats
21 and over · Phones down, please
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Request an Entry

Reserve your line in the ledger

Tell us who's coming and when. We hold every table fifteen minutes past the hour — one reply from us and the door stays open.

No deposit taken online. We reply the same evening we're open — usually within the hour.