Kolkata's iconic 60-year-old Mocambo restaurant has denied discriminating against anyone on 'racial basis', a day after a woman alleged that the restaurant did not let her driver inside for dinner.

"We never discriminate against anyone ever but the person (driver) was shabbily dressed and dirty. Mocambo is not racist but if a person is unclean then we have to draw the line somewhere," Ashish Malik, manager of Mocambo said.

On Tuesday, Dilashi Hemnani, who was on a work trip to Kolkata, alleged that the restaurant discriminated against her driver.

In a Facebook post that has since gone viral, collecting over 60,000 comments, she describes the incident and saying, 'How shallow and inhuman have we become'.