The Bombay Bicycle Club was a restaurant chain that has multiple restaurants in many locations across the United States, including California.
It originated as an
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
n restaurant chain.
The Bombay Bicycle Club was the inspiration for the investment club known as the ''
Billionaire Boys Club
The Billionaire Boys Club was an investing and social club organized in 1983 by Joseph Henry Hunt (born Joseph Henry Gamsky) in Southern California. It was originally simply named "BBC", the initials of Bombay Bicycle Club, a restaurant Hunt had ...
'', whose founder, Joe Hunt, liked to hang out at the restaurant in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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in his youth.
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The Bombay Bicycle Club was also the inspiration behind the English
indie rock
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band of
the same name.
Some chains of this restaurant also served as
bars.
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References
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Restaurant chains in the United States
Indian-American culture
Indian restaurants in the United States