Kolkata is a gastronomic melting pot of multiple communities. Many have come here, got settled and in turn, enriched our own cuisine.…
Kolkata has always been a melting pot- a confluence of culture. And for a glutton like me, no culture is complete without…
Being a Bengali পেটুক, born in Kolkata, I have a certain mental blockage against eating Bengali food at a restaurant. I always…
Shantiniketan can be called as the average (or non-average) Bengali’s intellectual capital. It’s just 4.5 hour’s drive from Kolkata and by train,…
It was around two centuries back, yes, long time … One Mr Philip Miner Dacres used to meet sailors over meals in…
It’s 2019 and we can see a huge number of restaurants serving Bengali food in Kolkata. Or rather why Kolkata, Mustard is…
when I travel to other cities, the first thing that I look for is, what are the best places to eat in…
The sound of dhak, the blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds and festive cheer in the air. Yes, Durga puja is…
Hilsa, as I always call, is an object of desire for both India and Bangladesh. And such madness is rarely seen anywhere. In…
I went to Bangladesh on a quest for hilsa. Yes, the fish that is the object of desire for both India and…
