3 Best Restaurants in Kolkata (Calcutta), India

This well-liked restaurant is known for its traditional and contemporary Bengali cuisine. Try the prawns or the hilsa (a local fish), wrapped in banana leaves and steamed in a mustard and coconut marinade. The buffet here is one of the best you can get in the city—it's a great introduction to Bengali dishes.

In a residential neighborhood to the south, this restaurant takes the best and most unique ingredients and flavors of Bengali cuisine, and gives them a contemporary twist. Crab cakes come with mustard sauce and are baked with local greens in small clay saucers, river prawns are simmered in a coconut gravy with grapes, and desserts are delicately flavored with gondhoraj, a close cousin of the kaffir lime used in Thai dishes.

This sleek, modern restaurant with massive ceilings is an expat favorite in Kolkata. As the name suggests, the menu here covers a broad variety of dishes from Japan, Mongolia, Korea, Thailand, and China, all made with ingredients sourced from its very own kitchen garden.