Aladdin - Mirza Ghalib St. (Free School St.)

Aladdin (an Anglicisation of the Arabic name Alā ad-Dīn, Arabic: علاء الدين literally "nobility of the faith") is one of the tales of medieval Arabian origin in the ‘The Book of One Thousand and One Nights’ (Arabian Nights). This North Indian, Mughlai restaurant is new & is not so well-known but offers tasty kababs and biriyani at reasonable prices of Rs. 250 for two persons.

Location: 55, Mirza Galib Street
Contact No.: 033 40646235, +91 9163514225

Arsalan- Muzaffar Ahmed Street (Ripon Street)

Arsalan is a very well-known chain of mughlai / Indian cuisine restaurants in Kolkata. Its main branch is in Park Circus & it has a total of 3 branches in Kolkata. In such places don’t go for the hygiene, ambience, tables, interior decoration, crowd or any related stuff, the main point here is that the food is too tasty, so overlook everything else and grab it. Even the 5-star hotels with their high profile chefs will not be able to cook such awesome biriyani which arsalan or shiraz offers. It has home delivery services too. Apart from the chicken / mutton biriyani, one should try out the tandoori chicken, Mutton Sheek Kabab, chicken bharta. I don’t know what spices, butter, cashew or masala they add to Mutton Tikka (or Reshmi : try out both) Butter masala, but the gravy feels too good in the mouth. Firni is a must have as a dessert. You could check out the menu on their website: http://www.arsalanrestaurant.in/

Location: 119A, Muzaffar Ahmed Street, (Ripon Street)

Contact No.:

033-22277493/7494

On Track - Mirza Ghalib St. (Free School St.)

On Track is cool for kids as it has an artificial railway bogey & an engine where a person sits & enjoys the food; Special effects of vibration & sound of train is also present to add a bit more . An almost full-sized steam train heads straight for the window offering parents a unique, up market dining experience in leather-seated Pullman carriages while the kids play in the locomotive. Over-keen waiters flock like vultures but food standards vary. Apart from all this the paneer butter masala, Crispy chilly baby corn rocks! I should also mention that this place is a little less known in Park Street area but is worth visiting.
Location: 25 B, Park Street
Contact No.: +(91)-(33)-22273955, 22273956 

Tung Fong- Mirza Ghalib St. (Free School St.)

Tung Fong serves authentic Chinese as their main cuisine. I discovered that Tung Fong is run by a Chinese family from Tangra. They also run Kimling & Beijing at Tangra. The ambience is quite elegant & it is one of the very few restaurants in that area which has a buffet in the afternoon; it is economical, tasty and has loads of items from different types of salads, starters, Sweet Corn Soup (veg) & Thai soup (non-veg), veg wanton, crispy baby corn, dim sums, fried mushroom, chili potato, red chilly chicken, smoked lamb, garlic prawns, Yang Chu fried rice, Hakka noodles, Honey Glazed Chicken, Kung Pao Prawn, Thai Garlic Fish other gravy side dishes. It also serves complimentary beverage from choices of beer, lime soda, aerated drinks & others. There is vanilla ice-cream with hot chocolate sauce as dessert in the buffet apart from fruits. I had once invited many friends to this place on my birthday. The buffet price per head at that time was around Rs.280, but now it has risen to Rs. 456 (inclusive of taxes)*. In the night, there is À la carte & it is advisable to avoid the weekends as there is rush, which is natural due to the low costs but the thing is the waiting time there is very high and that is not because of heavy rush, but because the service turn around time is very high there. If possible do a telephonic reservation, but as we know, Bengalis go for dinner unplanned as the way it should be! 
Location: 25/B, Park Street
Contact No.: +(91)-(33)-22174969, 22174989, +(91)-9831083530, 9903019200

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*Price updated on Mar 2013

Mocambo- Mirza Ghalib St. (Free School St.)

Mirza Ghalib Street, previously known as Free School Street, is a street that joins S. N. Banerjee Road with Park Street in Central Kolkata. This area is famous for cheap hotels and eateries. Many foreign visitors reside in these cheap yet reliable hotels. The used book and record shops sport an eclectic collection due to trade with generations of budget travelers the world over. 

Mocambo opened its doors in 1956, a European oasis of glamour and jazz on Park Street, Calcutta’s famous cabaret row. It is an old but classy restaurant which still has an odd jumble of Europeanisms: a mural of faux Degas ballerinas, red vinyl banquettes, red silk lampshades hanging like upside-down tulips. Fish à la Moutarde is grilled beckty, a Bay of Bengal delicacy, drenched in a spicy mustard sauce, whose virtues a Bengali can croon about. Angels on Horseback is chicken wrapped in bacon. Fish à la Diana is indulgence itself: beckty, stuffed with prawn and cooked in cream. I would recommend everyone to try the Pepper Devilled crab & Stuffed tandoori chicken as starter and Chicken Paparika in the main course. Among soups the cream of Chicken Soup is just excellent. Among desserts don’t forget to try the Ice cream with hot chocolate sauce. However be prepared to wait for a long time before you get a place to sit though, especially on weekday evenings! Though the live music stopped 20 years ago, Mocambo boasts of a charm which none of the other restaurants in that area can parallel, this is a place where the cuisine Steaks are simply over-whelming.

Location: 25 B, Opp Flurrys, Park Street
Contact No.: +(91)-(33)-22654300, 22290095

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