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Madras Coffee House has evolved with the changing landscape of the city. It won’t be an anomaly to say that the roots of the restaurant are as old as the evolution of Delhi as we see it today. Set in the newly established Connaught Circus, Madras Coffee House first opened its doors in 1935 as ‘Shanghai Restaurant and Bar’, a Chinese restaurant strictly serving to the British (it was still the British Raj, remember!), by Late Shri H.C. Jain, who relocated from Ferozpur in Punjab to Delhi and held the reign of the establishment. With a cautionary board outside, ‘Dogs and Indians not allowed’, the restaurant was a popular joint with its ballroom for the British Army troops and their families, where couples would come dancing every evening.