2 Best Restaurants in Kolkata (Calcutta), India

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.

Kolkata's popular Chinese restaurant, now a national chain, is known for efficient service and spacious interiors with minimalist but comfortable furniture. Try their fish and prawn dishes or the elaborate and reasonably priced buffet.