Firpo’s, which was once the most happening food joint, nightlife haunt and social venue of Kolkata (Calcutta) since the 1920s, was the brainchild of Angelo Firpo, an Italian. Recently, his grandnephew Enrico De Barbieri was in town at the invitation of the Italian Consulate of Kolkata to relive a lost past. Sreyashi Ghosh walks down the memory lane of the city in colonial times