Darjeeling's Central hotel turns 100
Fortune took over in april 2000
| Fortune took over the hotel in April 2000 and implemented major design changes using a local architect, Shashish Prakash. |
| It now offers 31 rooms in the main building and 15 more in the annexe. |
| It also offers a 100-seater conference hall and a banquet hall that is the largest in Darjeeling besides a board room for 15 persons. |
| The centenary celebrations will continue till December 31 through a series of special events and food festivals. |
| Bhattacharya, the chief guest at the function, praised the chain for upgrading the Central at a time when tourism to Darjeeling was showing steady growth. |
| The hotel would offer special cuisine, with names like Hastings Treasure (chicken salad with green mangoes), Hill Railway chicken curry, and Angrezi Babu's delight (brocolli in butter). |
| NB Madan, former owner of the hotel, pointed out that it was opened by his grandfather JF Madan in 1905 as a 2-star hotel and it had now become a 4-star hotel. |