Food in Kalyani

Every city has its array of delicious local food, its appetizing multi-cuisine specialties and top notch restaurants which cater to the tourists as well as the local population. Kalyani in West Bengal is also notable for bringing traditional sweet and spicy Bengali delicacies to all food lovers who visit the township. Indeed, Kalyani is as much about enjoying its green parks and gardens as surveying and taking a bite through its many local food joints which are in close proximity to them.

Breakfast in Kalyani

The typical Bengali breakfast in Kalyani starts with the ubiquitous fried luchis (made of flour) and aloor dum (or potato curry). Other variations of this are the equally delicious kachori (deep fried flour flatbread stuffed with urad dal) and cholar dal (split Bengal gram curry), or the paratha (fried layered flatbread made of flour) and potato gravy. Not to forget the bharer cha (tea in earthen pots) served in roadside stalls in the morning and then whenever you need a hot sip!

Lunch and Dinner in Kalyani

The authentic Bengali lunch or dinner in Kalyani will have rice as its staple ingredient which will be eaten with daal (or lentil soup) and shukto, a bitter vegetable preparation. The dal is eaten with various fried items or bhaja, most prominently the aloo bhaja (fried potato) or begun bhaja (eggplant fries). This is followed by the main course which traditionally consists of mustard oil fried fish curry. Bengal’s location beside the River Ganges makes freshwater fishes a traditional element of its culture and lifestyle.

Meat or egg curry is also sometimes taken. The meal is traditionally signed off with a tomato-khejur-amshotto chutney (a combination of tomato pulp, date and dried raw mangoes) followed by an ubiquitous Bengali sweet dish, the payesh which is a variant of kheer (cooked by boiling rice in milk with sugar) and rosogolla, a syrupy cheese based dessert.

Sweet Dishes in Kalyani

Every lane and by lane of Kalyani has a sweet shop selling an assorted variety of syrupy sweets including rosogulla, gulab jamun, rabri (from sweetened cream of milk) and dry sweets called sandesh. Besides the visitor to Kalyani will also find Bengal’s hallmark mishti doi or sweet yoghurt served in claypot. The Radha Govinda sweet shop is a renowned sweet shop in Kalyani around the Central Park section offering a variety of mouth-watering desserts of your choice.

Fast Food Joints in Kalyani

The Central Park area in Kalyani is also frequented by visitors and the local people for its wide section of fast food joints selling delectable snacks and other cuisines. Some of the other famous fast food centres in Kalyani include Ruchika Fast Food Restaurant and Food Pavilion on the Kalyani highway. Monginis is also located in Central Park area in Kalyani and offers an array of cakes pastries, puffs, bakery items and other savouries for every occasion.

     

Restaurants in Kalyani

With its parks, gardens, educational institutions and industrial centres, Kalyani sees a good footfall of visitors every year who tour the township.  A number of fine multi-cuisine restaurants and hotels have been created in Kalyani to facilitate a smooth and comfortable stay here.  The most prominent among them is Aqautic Palace Restaurant with its authentic Chinese, Moghlai and Continental dishes. An accompanying bar comes with choice soft and hard drinks, cocktails and savoury snacks. Some of the other exciting options to eat out in Kalyani include the Spice Valley with its famous Tandoori, Indian and Chinese dishes, Lake Park Restaurant in Lake Road, Irie Family Restaurant near the Kalyani fire station, Dhakeswari Chinese Restaurant and Cafe Frespresso in Ghoshpara Station Road.

So enjoy the varied flavours of Kalyani by visiting its food plazas, restaurants and eating joints. Bon appetit!