Restaurant India News: Together Launches in Delhi as Tokyo-Style Kissa Listening Bar

Tokyo’s kissa culture is set to enter Delhi’s nightlife market with the launch of Together on 13th February 2026. Positioned as a listening-room-led cocktail bar, the venue focuses on curated music, design-led interiors, and a structured beverage programme.

Located through a discreet entry in an alley setting, the bar adopts a discovery-driven format rather than traditional high-visibility branding. The space has been designed by Manav Dangg of Studio Dangg, incorporating wood finishes, textured mirrors, cobbled walls, and controlled red lighting to create an enclosed environment centred around music.

Vinyl records form a core part of the concept, with a dedicated listening room and calibrated speaker placements ensuring that music remains central to the experience. Jazz and retro selections dominate the programming. “Together is for people who’ve seen the world or are curious to. We exist somewhere between Japan and Delhi. You taste it in the cocktails and hear it in the gentle, jazzy, throwback music,” said Vansh Pahuja, Co-Founder.

The beverage menu draws influence from Japanese cocktail techniques and flavour structures. According to Ravi Negi, Head of Bar, “We draw from Japanese sensibilities—savory notes, highball forms, quiet balance. Flavour has nowhere to hide when you strip things down.” The drink list progresses from low-alcohol and non-alcoholic options to stronger cocktails. Offerings include Rum Whisper, Golden Hour, Rosé Martini, and a series labelled Track 1, Track 3, and Track 4, incorporating ingredients such as yuzu, basil, miso butter-washed scotch, grape brine, wasabi-washed rum, mango, and clarified coconut milk. Classic cocktails including Dirty Martini, Sidecar, and Old Fashioned are also available.

The food menu is structured around shared plates. Dips, small plates, tempura selections, and composed dishes include edamame hummus, Bangkok guacamole, miso tahini, vegetable tempura, cornflake-crusted onion rings, chicken karaage, prawn tempura, gomae salad, gyoza, and sandos in vegetarian and non-vegetarian formats.

Dhruv Kapoor, Co-Founder, said, “This space is built around three things I love deeply - music, cocktails, and hospitality that feels human, not rehearsed. If you’ve found us, you’re meant to be here. Music leads, cocktails follow, and community is what makes it all work.”

The bar will operate daily from 5 PM to 1 AM. The average price for two is Rs 3500 with alcohol and Rs 2000 without alcohol.

Together, it reflects a growing shift toward experience-led nightlife formats in urban India. Listening-room concepts, controlled capacity layouts, and curated beverage programmes indicate demand for differentiated, niche social spaces over high-volume club formats. The Tokyo-inspired model signals increasing cross-cultural influence in Delhi’s premium bar segment as operators seek new ways to build community-driven consumption environments.