Indrajit Lahiri

Summer time is here and good-food days are almost over, or at least what I thought- and suddenly this invitation came from…

Unusual things are coming to Kolkata- I mean gastronomically. Around 10 years back, who could have thought of such food varieties here…

Puri, the name itself opens the floodgate of nostalgia in a bong’s mind. Probably, the first tour with parents, the first sea,…

This time I am planning to venture into mother of all the coffee shops in Kolkata- The Calcutta Coffee House, college street.…

We stay in the eastern part of the city called Beliaghata and salt lake is just our next-door-thing. Now, for long, we…

“Excuse me…. can we have some water please ? ” and that’s the phrase we kept on uttering hopelessly in our gastronomic adventure…

Previously, I’ve posted something about the generic biryani scenario in Kolkata. And out of them, very few joints have proved to be…

I do not know why, every bengali I ever meet has got a strange nostalgic attachment with Darjeeling. Technically its just another…

In our childhood and early youth, Park Street used to be the food and fashion street in Kolkata. that is, before the…

Many of us in Bengal have a pre-conceived notion that south indian food means only idly, vada and the final frontier- dosa,…