Bengali Restaurants in DC area
Amitabha Bagchi
Hi,
Can anyone let me know of good Bengali restaurants in the Washington,
DC-Baltimore area?
Thanks.
Amitabha
Kalpataru Barman
Joydeep Bhattacharya wrote:
> Are there any "Bengali" restaurants anywhere in the US? What you get is
> Bangladeshi restaurants selling mainly North Indian food or Indian
> restaurants including 1-2 strictly bengali items in their menu. I have never
> seen/heard of a restaurant in the US which actually boasts of an entirely
> Bengali menu; only doi-maach, lau chingri, shorshe iliish, mochar ghonto,
> begun bhaja, potoler dorma, kodayer daal, posto chocchori, deemer devil,
> .......I suppose, inadvertently, I am revealing my own preferences over items
> within the broad class of cuisine called "Bengali cuisine"!
>
> I wonder if there is a good restaurant in Calcutta (let alone NYC, LA, DC)
> which offers such strictly Bengali choices!
>
> Kot deen je e shob jinish khaini! Likhte giye jeebe guccher jwol eshe poDeche.
> Coffee kheye jwol katate hobe!
>
> Joydeep
1993-te NYC te Jackson Heights-e "Meghna Restaurant" e kheyechhilaam.
Bhari bhalo legechhilo restora-r naam bangla-te lekha dekhe. $5.95 e
chamatkar Machh-er buffet. Sorshe bata diye Ilish-o thaakey menu-te
( not always though ).Rui/Buffalo/Telapia joto khusi khao. Run by
Bangladeshi.
Joydeep Bhattacharya
In article <32F4EF...@cs.jhu.edu>, bag...@cs.jhu.edu says...
Are there any "Bengali" restaurants anywhere in the US? What you get is
Shubu Mukherjee
Joydeep,
Kolkata ba West Bengal-ei ba kota restaurant achhe jara eshob bikri
kor-e? The only one that comes close is Ahar in Calcutta.
-Shubu
>>>>> In article <5d3c2a$i...@usc.edu>, joyd...@rcf.usc.edu (Joydeep Bhattacharya) writes:
J> In article <32F4EF...@cs.jhu.edu>, bag...@cs.jhu.edu says...
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone let me know of good Bengali restaurants in the Washington,
>> DC-Baltimore area?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Amitabha
J> Are there any "Bengali" restaurants anywhere in the US? What you get is
J> Bangladeshi restaurants selling mainly North Indian food or Indian
J> restaurants including 1-2 strictly bengali items in their menu. I have never
J> seen/heard of a restaurant in the US which actually boasts of an entirely
J> Bengali menu; only doi-maach, lau chingri, shorshe iliish, mochar ghonto,
J> begun bhaja, potoler dorma, kodayer daal, posto chocchori, deemer devil,
J> .......I suppose, inadvertently, I am revealing my own preferences over items
J> within the broad class of cuisine called "Bengali cuisine"!
J> I wonder if there is a good restaurant in Calcutta (let alone NYC, LA, DC)
J> which offers such strictly Bengali choices!
J> Kot deen je e shob jinish khaini! Likhte giye jeebe guccher jwol eshe poDeche.
J> Coffee kheye jwol katate hobe!
J> Joydeep
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Shubu Mukherjee University of Wisconsin-Madison, Computer Sciences
Mandar Mitra
Shubu Mukherjee writes:
> Kolkata ba West Bengal-ei ba kota restaurant achhe jara eshob bikri
> kor-e? The only one that comes close is Ahar in Calcutta.
Is this one of the Peerless/Quality Inn trio of restaurants? Where
is it? Is it good? pricey?
Bedouin near Gol Park has a bangali menu on Sundays that includes
the sorts of things that Joydeep mentioned. Has anyone tried the
bangali food there?
If you include small, unpretentious joints like the ones on/near
highways -- Joydeep probably did not -- there are quite a few places
that serve bangali khabar of the ghorowa kind -- bhat, daal, begun/
potol/shoru alu bhaja, some kind of chocchori/torkari, machher jhol,
chatni, papor. A place near Kolaghat with some generic name like Tripti
Ghor used to serve great Ilish machher dim bhaja ...
Mandar.
Dr. Soojay Banerjee
Mandar Mitra wrote:
>
> Shubu Mukherjee writes:
>
> > Kolkata ba West Bengal-ei ba kota restaurant achhe jara eshob bikri
> > kor-e? The only one that comes close is Ahar in Calcutta.
>
> Is this one of the Peerless/Quality Inn trio of restaurants? Where
> is it? Is it good? pricey?
>
>
The food was good. It is not very expensive by N. American standards.
Soojay
Samir Bhattacharya
Joydeep likhechhe:
...
>Bengali menu; only doi-maach, lau chingri, shorshe iliish, mochar ghonto,
>begun bhaja, potoler dorma, kodayer daal, posto chocchori, deemer devil,
>.......I suppose, inadvertently, I am revealing my own preferences ...
..
>Kot deen je e shob jinish khaini! Likhte giye jeebe guccher jwol eshe poDeche.
>Coffee kheye jwol katate hobe!
Thik oporer item gulo hoyto hobena (begun bhaja baad dile) ; kintu
'98-er January-te Kolkatay jachho-to? Shubu Babur nemontonno rakhte?
Sambit asha kori akta prototype menu toiri korchhe ... tomar kono
bishesh item-er ichhe thakle ei byala oke bole raakhte paro.
Samir
>Joydeep
Srabani Banerjee
Mandar Mitra writes:
> > Kolkata ba West Bengal-ei ba kota restaurant achhe jara eshob bikri
> > kor-e? The only one that comes close is Ahar in Calcutta.
>
> Is this one of the Peerless/Quality Inn trio of restaurants? Where
> is it? Is it good? pricey?
No, that would be Aaheli.
> Bedouin near Gol Park has a bangali menu on Sundays that includes
> the sorts of things that Joydeep mentioned. Has anyone tried the
> bangali food there?
Yes. Not good, IMHO.
Another restaurant that serves Bangali food is Suruchi on Russell
Street. Not bad, if you are the type who wouldn't mind paying through
the nose for shukto and machh-bhaat.
> If you include small, unpretentious joints like the ones on/near
> highways -- Joydeep probably did not -- there are quite a few places
> that serve bangali khabar of the ghorowa kind -- bhat, daal, begun/
> potol/shoru alu bhaja, some kind of chocchori/torkari, machher jhol,
> chatni, papor. A place near Kolaghat with some generic name like Tripti
> Ghor used to serve great Ilish machher dim bhaja ...
That reminds me of `Boudi-r canteen' in Durgapur which, on a regular
day, would serve such delicacies as mocha ghonto and kumDo phuler
boDa.
Everything said and done, if I happened to be in Calcutta, I wouldn't
go searching for a restaurant for good bangali cuisine. I would go
home. :)
Srabani
Shubu Mukherjee
>>>>> In article <5d5j3i$b...@twinkie.cs.cornell.edu>, mi...@cs.cornell.edu (Mandar Mitra) writes:
MM> Shubu Mukherjee writes:
>> Kolkata ba West Bengal-ei ba kota restaurant achhe jara eshob bikri
>> kor-e? The only one that comes close is Ahar in Calcutta.
MM> Is this one of the Peerless/Quality Inn trio of restaurants? Where
MM> is it? Is it good? pricey?
Never been there. But I would like to know more. Heard the waiters
are in Dhoti-punjabi and the waitresses are in sarees!
MM> Bedouin near Gol Park has a bangali menu on Sundays that includes
MM> the sorts of things that Joydeep mentioned. Has anyone tried the
MM> bangali food there?
Hmmm ... I loved Bedouin's biryani. Will check that out.
MM> If you include small, unpretentious joints like the ones on/near
MM> highways -- Joydeep probably did not -- there are quite a few places
MM> that serve bangali khabar of the ghorowa kind -- bhat, daal, begun/
MM> potol/shoru alu bhaja, some kind of chocchori/torkari, machher jhol,
MM> chatni, papor.
Yes, you are right. These usually cater to people who eat out
regularly and pay them on a monthly basis. However, most of these
look kind of scary in terms of hygiene.
MM> A place near Kolaghat with some generic name like Tripti
MM> Ghor used to serve great Ilish machher dim bhaja ...
That sounds good. Will try to check it out.
-Shubu
National Pension Admin.Corp.
Srabani Banerjee wrote:
>
> Mandar Mitra writes:
>
> > > Kolkata ba West Bengal-ei ba kota restaurant achhe jara eshob bikri
> > > kor-e? The only one that comes close is Ahar in Calcutta.
> >
>
>
>
> Yes. Not good, IMHO.
>
> Another restaurant that serves Bangali food is Suruchi on Russell
> Street. Not bad, if you are the type who wouldn't mind paying through
> the nose for shukto and machh-bhaat.
>
> > Ghor used to serve great Ilish machher dim bhaja ...
>
> day, would serve such delicacies as mocha ghonto and kumDo phuler
> boDa.
>
> Everything said and done, if I happened to be in Calcutta, I wouldn't
> go searching for a restaurant for good bangali cuisine. I would go
> home. :)
>
> Srabani
kothaa uThechhilo je 'Bengali Restaurants in Washington D.C.' area-te
aachhe kina! taai golper goru tokhon shaahebi deshe bangali khaabar-er
gondho na peye 'moner' plane-a ticket kete shojaa chole gyalo poshchim
bonge! shekhaane raashtaay raashtaay bangali khabarer khNoje ghure
oboshesh-a 'Boudi-r canteen'-a 'Shuruchi' 'Ahar' 'Tripti'(Ghor-ta noy
baad dilaam) kore kheye golper goru shojaa dhuke gyalo nijer baDi-r
'goile'-te! home sweet home! ekei bole shuktor-jhol! hee,
hee!:)---soumitri
Debjeet Pal
Shubu Mukherjee wrote:
>
> >>>>> In article <5d5j3i$b...@twinkie.cs.cornell.edu>, mi...@cs.cornell.edu (Mandar Mitra) writes:
>
>
> >> Kolkata ba West Bengal-ei ba kota restaurant achhe jara eshob bikri
> >> kor-e? The only one that comes close is Ahar in Calcutta.
Peerless/Quality Inn er bangali resturant-er naam hochhay "Aheli",
"Ahar" noy..........
>
> MM> Is this one of the Peerless/Quality Inn trio of restaurants? Where
> MM> is it? Is it good? pricey?
Yes,thats right. Khabar quality o service darun, kintu ektu pricey...
Eta Chowringee Road-a........
>
> Never been there. But I would like to know more. Heard the waiters
> are in Dhoti-punjabi and the waitresses are in sarees!
Thik tai.........its quite an experience to dine out there........
>
> MM> Bedouin near Gol Park has a bangali menu on Sundays that includes
> MM> the sorts of things that Joydeep mentioned. Has anyone tried the
> MM> bangali food there?
>
> Hmmm ... I loved Bedouin's biryani. Will check that out.
>
>
Khub shiggiri kolkata-dhaka bus service chalu hochhay. khobhor pelam jay
bus jokhon ferry-tay koray Podma, Jamuna paar hobay tar sensation-e
alaada er ferry-te naki POdma-er Ilish-o khoano hobay jatrider......
Debjeet
Joydeep Bhattacharya
In article <5d5f99$s...@newsb.netnews.att.com>, s...@hogpa.att.com says...
[..]
>Thik oporer item gulo hoyto hobena (begun bhaja baad dile) ; kintu
>'98-er January-te Kolkatay jachho-to? Shubu Babur nemontonno rakhte?
>Sambit asha kori akta prototype menu toiri korchhe ... tomar kono
>bishesh item-er ichhe thakle ei byala oke bole raakhte paro.
>
>Samir
Sambit, tentative menu ta tahole kobe post korcho? Aamader motamot nebe
to, naki? Accha, caterer diye khawano hocche na SCB'er meyera ranna
korchen? Aami poribershon korte raaji! Samir da ki jaacho?
Joydeep
Sharmila Mukherjee
ha..ha..ha...hashale Joydeep, tomar moto bamun thakur thaakte aamra?
Bolo ki, aNya?
Sharmila
--
Education must be seen as at least partially an effort to produce the
good human being, to foster the good life and the good society.
--Abraham Maslow
Sharmila Mukherjee
Joydeep Bhattacharya wrote:
> >Joydeep Bhattacharya wrote:
>
> >> Sambit, tentative menu ta tahole kobe post korcho? Aamader motamot
> nebe
> >> to, naki? Accha, caterer diye khawano hocche na SCB'er meyera ranna
> >> korchen? Aami poribershon korte raaji! Samir da ki jaacho?
>
> > ha..ha..ha...hashale Joydeep, tomar moto bamun thakur thaakte aamra?
> >Bolo ki, aNya?
>
> >Sharmila
>
> Ei shob kaaj bamun-thakur diye cholbe na! Dorkar "Musholman Baburchi"! Ba
> Shree Shree Bhojohori Manna ke ekta khobor dile hoye na? Ta Sharmila, tumi
> to nije bamun thakrone; kaaj ta amaar ghaDe chappacho je?
>
> :-)
>
> Joydeep
Aare dur, tumi-o jyamon! E shob kaaj ki aar thakrun-ra kore naaki?
TNara to paan chibute chibute gNyat hoye ranna ghore boshe todaroki
koren, aar protyekti khabar chekhe dyakhen... ta she aami khub parbo,
:-)..after all Mukhujje baDi-te Mukhujje ginni to aar otithi non,
ghorer lok!
Soumitri Mukherjee
Sharmila debi, how on earth you all started discussing these things
about a wedding-feast under the heading "Bengali Resturants in DC
Area"?<:) Did you find an interesting one from that area which may help
you out in the preperation of the wedding-feast while you may continue
your testing duties?<:)---while you may want to fulfill your testing
duties, please do it without chewing any 'paan' though,<:), for the fear
of spitting any tiny bits of it into any well prepared delicay and
ruining the reputation of that Bengali Resturant in DC metropolitan
area.<:)
soumitri
soumitri
Debjeet Pal
Sharmila Mukherjee wrote:
>
> Joydeep Bhattacharya wrote:
> >
> >
> > [..]
> >
> > >Thik oporer item gulo hoyto hobena (begun bhaja baad dile) ; kintu
> > >'98-er January-te Kolkatay jachho-to? Shubu Babur nemontonno rakhte?
98-er January-te Shubhu-babu ki shotti biye korchen? Ta jodi hoy taholay
to "biye bari-ir menu-ur" alochonar agay, ba shathay shathay "patri"
niyeo alochona hoyoa uchit chilo.......tai noy ki///
Ta Shubhu-babur biyer patri-ir baparay kono uchho-bachhoi to dekhlaam na
scb-tay. kemon patri, kirom dekhte, ki koray ki naam - a shob ki kichui
jana jabay na?
> > >Sambit asha kori akta prototype menu toiri korchhe ... tomar kono
> > >bishesh item-er ichhe thakle ei byala oke bole raakhte paro.
> > >
> > >Samir
> >
> > Sambit, tentative menu ta tahole kobe post korcho? Aamader motamot nebe
HyNa, Sambit bhaya tentative menu card ektu chot-pot koray chepe phelo
dekhi.............amaar suggestion chailay ditay paari....
Debjeet