Best Burgers in Kolkata: Park Street and Beyond

The best burgers in Kolkata start on Park Street and around neighbouring Camac Street, the city’s historic restaurant district, then spread south to Ballygunge and Gariahat and east to Salt Lake Sector V and New Town, where the IT offices are.

Kolkata has eaten breaded, fried meat between meals since the colonial era. Its cutlets and “chops”, adapted by Bengali cooks from British recipes, are sold from street stalls and old-style cabin restaurants across the city, and the kabiraji cutlet, wrapped in a lacy crust of beaten egg, is the local showpiece. Park Street has been the address for an evening out since colonial times and lights up every year for Christmas. The city also has India’s oldest Chinese community, in Tangra and Tiretta Bazaar, so its menus mix influences more freely than most.

Burgers in Kolkata: key facts

• Neighbourhoods to explore: Park Street and Camac Street, Ballygunge and Gariahat, Salt Lake Sector V and New Town.
• Local specialty: the kabiraji cutlet and the fish fry, Kolkata’s own fried snacks.
• Durga Puja: in autumn, the whole city eats out late into the night for the festival.
• Currency: Indian rupee (INR).
• Getting around: the Kolkata Metro, India’s first, opened in 1984 and now runs under the Hooghly to Howrah.
• City name: Calcutta until 2001.

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