Bengali Food & Kolkata Food Trail
Bengali cuisine and Kolkata street food: iconic dishes, mishti, Puja bhog and the best food trails.
Classic food stops in Kolkata
- Golbari: The round-fronted corner shop known for dark, slow-cooked kosha mangsho.
- Mitra Cafe: A tiny cabin serving cutlets, kabiraji and brain chop since 1920.
- Girish Chandra Dey & Nakur Chandra Nandy: Sandesh specialists since 1844, sold through a grille in a side lane.
- Zakaria Street: The kebab-and-haleem street beside Nakhoda Masjid.
- Royal Indian Hotel: A 1905 Mughlai restaurant known for mutton chaap and biryani.
- Indian Coffee House: The high-ceilinged hall where Bengal’s writers and students argue over coffee.
- Paramount: A sherbet shop from 1918 with marble tables and a famous daab sherbet.
- Favourite Cabin: A 1918 tea cabin where revolutionaries and poets met.
- Tiretta Bazaar Chinese Breakfast: Momos, pork buns and fish-ball soup sold on the pavement at dawn.
- Bhim Chandra Nag: An 1826 sweet shop, home of the ledikeni.
- Dacres Lane: The office district’s lunch alley.
- Nizam’s: The restaurant credited with inventing the kathi roll.
- Aminia: A 1929 Mughlai house for Kolkata biryani and mutton pasinda.
- K.C. Das: The rosogolla family’s shop at Esplanade.
- Park Street: The city’s dining street, and its Christmas street.
- Flurys: The 1927 tea room on Park Street.
- Oxford Bookstore: A Park Street bookshop that has been open since 1920.
- Shiraz Golden Restaurant: A 1941 biryani house at the Mullick Bazar crossing.
- Balaram Mullick & Radharaman Mullick: A Bhawanipur sweet shop since 1885, known for baked rosogolla and nolen gur sweets.
- Balwant Singh’s Eating House: A Punjabi dhaba from 1926 that serves tea from before dawn.
- Lake Market: A neighbourhood market with a South Indian flavour.
- Jadavpur 8B & Coffee House: Student street food and a branch of the Coffee House by the university gate.
- Tangra Chinatown: The Hakka Chinese quarter where Indian Chinese food was shaped.