Kolkata (Calcutta) Restaurants

  1. Barista

    Starbucks-style chain Barista is a reliably youthful place to linger in air-conditioned comfort. Coffees are decent and it has numerous alternative branches around town.

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  2. Camellia Tea Bar

    Camellia Tea Bar does multifarious teas served cocktail-style on a pleasant roof-garden. Try spicy Thai-chai or curious Irish Tea with an ice-cream float.

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  3. Dolly's Tea Shop

    If shopping at Dakshinapan don't miss this characterful teahouse offering 24 different infusions and as many iced flavours. Regal matriarch Dolly is a tea writer-researcher whose magnetic presence attracts a wonderfully eclectic clientele.

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  4. Flury's

    This wonderfully enticing Art-Deco palace-café serves unusual, semi-sweet Belgian Mocha coffee and offers all-day breakfasts but sandwiches and croissants aren't always fresh.

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  5. Indian Coffee House

    Once a meeting place of freedom fighters, bohemians and revolutionaries, this legendary place has crusty high ceilings, archaic fans and grimy walls ringing with deafening student conversation. It's perversely fascinating despite bland chow meins and dishwater coffee.

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