Chicken Sizzler. Pics/Suresh Karkera

There was a time, he recalls, when Bollywood actors like Salman Khan and Aditya Pancholi would regularly drop by for a meal but with the rise of new fine-dine hubs like BKC and the rest of the suburbs, it has reduced to a trickle. "If there's a shoot in the area, the same actors order food from here," he says.

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The Last Supper reworked by Hetal Shukla at Cafe Royal

The most visible change in the last decade, though, has been the sprawling hand-painted mural that hangs on the wall. Artist Hetal Shukla was commissioned to rework The Last Supper, that featured Biblical figures at the supper-table, and instead include Indian and American movie stars such as Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Angelina Jolie at a bar. "We wanted to give it a contemporary feel because a lot of our guests are actors, and foreign tourists who are enamoured by Bollywood. Shukla took a month and a half to prepare it. But people remember the paintings as much as the sizzlers," he smiles.

When Clinton came

During his India visit in 2000, US President Bill Clinton dropped by at Cafe Royal to try the sizzler steak. Due to security reasons, regular patrons were denied entry. The Regal Theatre, opposite the café, too, had to cancel its booking for the evening show due to this.

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