Social on Church Street operates as a co-working space through the day and a bar by night, a combination that works better in Bangalore than it might sound. The space is large and flexible, with enough room that the laptop crowd and the evening drinkers can coexist without getting in each other's way. The cocktail menu is inventive and changes regularly; the food menu is long and competent.
The Church Street location is the most convenient for central Bangalore, and the street itself — with its bookshops, cafes, and restaurants — is one of the more pleasant in the city for an evening walk. Social draws a young, professional crowd that is pretty much the definition of contemporary Bangalore: well-traveled, opinionated, and capable of talking about both their startup and their weekend trek in the same sentence.