Kolkata (Calcutta) Restaurants

  1. Aminia

    This bright but old-fashioned budget eatery has high ceilings and more under-employed staff than there are menu items. Curries are tasty if greasy. Tandoori chicken costs just 25 per quarter.

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  2. Kewpies

    Dining at Kewpies is almost like being invited to a dinner party in the chef's eclectic, gently old-fashioned home. First-rate Bengali food comes in small but fairly priced portions (minimum charge Rs200 per person). Find it down the tiny alley beside Netaji Bhawan.

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  3. Mainland China

    World-class Chinese food in gently sophisticated surroundings. Superb lobster-lemongrass soup, acceptable dim-sum and unusually drinkable Indian wines, notably the Sula Sauvignon Blanc. Reservations advised, enter behind Barista Coffee.

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  4. Nizams

    Bengal's trademark fast-food is the kati roll . No, that's nothing like a bread-roll. Take a paratha-roti, fry it with a one-sided coating of egg then fill with sliced onions, chilli and your choice of stuffing - typically curried chicken, grilled meat or paneer (unfermented cheese). Roll it up in a twist of paper and it's ready to eat. The classic, recently relaunched, 1932 roll house is Nizams, with faintly Tin-Tin-esque cartoon décor.

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  5. Oh! Calcutta

    High class Bengali, Mughlai and Continental cuisine in a suave pseudo-colonial atmosphere that's a delightfully calm contrast to the brash modernity of the surrounding mall.

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  6. Only Parathas

    Calm and relatively stylish this new restaurant offers high quality Punjabi vegetarian food including (but not limited to) 133 types of paratha (bread).

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