Zhilann - City Centre (Saltlake)

Zhilánn maybe small, with only a few tables, but is extensively decorated in Thai style with lamps and miniature statues, and Chinese scripts inscription. The stress is on authenticity of recipes from various provinces of China and beyond. Popular latest English hit songs are played in the background. The menu highlights a wide array of dishes from Canton to Sczhewan, Hunan to Hakka, Thai to Malaysian. The menu is elaborate with a wide variety for vegetarian as well. You can try out the tangy crispy chicken, the lamb in black pepper sauce, dimsums platters, ginger pimento fried rice, Hakka noodles, Prawn in Oyster sauce and other spicy Thai curries. The Thai food is really great to taste and the service is equally good with more than two persons always standing near the table. The sofas are comfortable with a lot of space. However the mocktails are not up to the mark as compared to its price. Desserts are also simple. I would rate it at 6.5 out of 10.

Contact No.: +(91)-(33)-23580994, +(91)-9051416443, 9883241842, 9831801516

Location: B 302, City Center, Block B, 3RD Floor.

Pizza Hut - City Centre (Saltlake)

Pizza Hut, which completed 15 years in India, now has 131 restaurants across India in 34 cities. Out of the 8 in Kolkata, The city centre, CC 2, and Camac Street are dine-in, the rest being delivery / take away. The ambience is good, yellow printed lamp shades hang from the ceiling, ordinary wooden round tables with very soft cozy comfortable sofas. The service ladies are extremely helpful and well-behaved, but the food takes much time to prepare in busy hours. There are pizzas in many ranges, depending on your budget. You would surely love this place and its lip smacking pizzas, pastas, garlic breads, salads, desserts, mocktails and other Italian dishes. If you don’t want to spend much, you can opt for budget meals, for 2, 4, and 6. There is a meal for Rs. 129 per person that serves 1 pizza, 2 garlic breads and 1 beverage, each of which has a quite a no. of choices. Check their official website at http://www.pizzahut.co.in/ for more information.

Contact No.: 033-23580984

Price Last Updated on Dec 2012

Garlic Bread

Potato Wedges

Crunchy Pizza and Masala Soda

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