The Royal Bombay Yacht Club East India cocktail

Once the epitome of elegance and the height of society for the Raj, the Royal Bombay Yacht Club stood as a Victorian monument to the permanence of the Empire. The Residential Chambers were particularly ugly, or beautiful, whichever way you looked at them. Five storeys of solid masonry, with arched windows, turrets and mock-Tudor gables, it housed the Servants to the Queen. When the “servants” were not about their business in the port city, they could be seen lounging comfortably in deep cha