Indian Coffee House

Indian Coffee House is a restaurant chain in India, run by a series of worker co-operative societies.

However, as part of the racial discrimination policy of the British rulers, Indians were not allowed into these coffee houses, which were mainly Europeans-only establishments.

[citation needed] Malviya Marg Karam Chand Chowk Branch, Jabalpur serves as the head office of ICWCS.

There is also a book about the ICH movement, in Malayalam - Coffee Housinte Katha or History of Coffee House by N. S. Parameswaran Pillai under the pen name, Nadakkal Parameswaran Pillai (Published by Current Books, Thrissur).

These are favourite hang-out places among the students and youth, although one can see several old-timers frequenting the coffee houses on a regular basis.

The history of the Coffee House at College Street can be traced to Albert Hall, which was founded in April 1876.

The coffee house is famous for its adda sessions, and as the breeding place of several political and cultural personalities and movements.

The Indian Coffee House has multiple restaurants in Chhattisgarh's Urban centres such as Raipur, Korba, Durg, Bhilai, Bilaspur, Raigarh and Jagdalpur.

The Indian Coffee House branch in Sector 17 of Chandigarh was opened in 1964 and remained popular among professionals, journalists, doctors, bureaucrats, lawyers and senior officials.

[14] The Indian Coffee House branch in Dharamsala used to be a popular hang-out of intelligentsia in the city.

It was set up, after the district administration approached the Indian Coffee Workers' Co-operative Society, Delhi in 1991.

Pakistan also inherited Indian coffee houses post-partition with main branches in Karachi and Lahore that underwent change in ownership and were rebranded after independence in 1947.