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RAJ'S SPANISH CAFE, DHARMTALA.

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Within the ever-busy area of New Market, lies disguised in one of the streets, Raj's Spanish Cafe. To be exact, it is located on Sudder St, Kolkata. After its establishment a few decades ago, it was very famous among foreigners, but it soon attracted locals as well.  The place is filled with food connoisseurs from all over the world. They are very friendly and often seek to build connections. This helps create and maintain the international cafe culture in this place. The walls are painted with emotions, rather than ink. Stained with memories of different customers who have been there over the time, and sometimes the same one visiting at different times and leaving their marks. Afterall, "you won't find the same person twice, not even in the same person", as Mahmoud Darwish rightly said. One can spot slogans, dates, catch-phrases, famous dialogues, caricatures and various other such. There is also a designates soft board, to which few tissue papers are pinned, the sam...