Best Places to Dine in Shantiniketan
Known for its rustic flavours, Santiniketan has in store a variety of eateries in an around the campus of Vishwa Bharati. Besides, restaurants offering food at reasonable rates line the nooks and corners of the town. Beer and wine shops are sparsely located but a drink that is worth trying is the rice beer which has the perfect rural Bengali touch to it and is a huge hit amongst tourists during the fair. It’s much lighter than normal beer but is brewed in the region and not easy to find elsewhere.
Shakuntala
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This restaurant gives you the feel of dining away from the concrete jungle, in a hut. The menu keeps changing and that’s what adds the exciting element of surprise. When seamless Bengali rice and curry is served piping hot in lotus leaves and clay pots, the taste and experience of a simple ethnic dining becomes more vivid and lively.
Must Savour: When in Shantiniketan, you just cannot miss preparations made out of poppy seeds lovingly called “posto” in Bengali.
Rasna Hotel & Restaurant
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A breakaway from the traditional Bengali food otherwise found everywhere in this town, Rasna Hotel is a place where you can go to get Chinese and Indian too. They offer an array of dishes that are sure to delight the food lover in you!
Must Savour: Chinese Delicacies
Vishwa Bharati Cafeteria
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The most reliable place to eat at is the Vishwa Bharati Campus Cafeteria which serves good Indian food and is open to all visitors. Because it is situated within the campus it allows you to have the whole university experience, entwined in Tagore’s philosophy and in nature.
Must Savour: Indian Delicacies
SK Restaurant
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The restaurant serves mouth-watering dishes to those who have a palate for the Indian cuisine. With a comfortable ambience, good hospitality and large servings, the place sees quite a few visitors who believe it to provide value for money which keeps them revisiting here.
Must Savour: Indian Delicacies
Ghore Baire
Location: Pravat Sarani, Bolpur, West Bengal 731204
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Ghore Baire supplies some of the most delicious Bengali dishes like the Chingri (prawn) Malai curry where the prawns are cooked in coconut milk with aromatic spices and reduced to a creamy (malai) consistency. The subtle sweetness of this dish might just tempt one to order for two. The spicy Chicken Kosha infused with customary Bengali spices is sure to bombard your mouth with flavours, and the menu still has more scrumptious fare coming for you, all served in beautiful hand painted cutleries.
Must Savour: Malai Chingri & Chicken Kosha
9X9 Restaurant
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With its quirky décor, relaxed ambience and food from around the world, you are in for a treat in this multi-cuisine restaurant. The menu ranges from Kathi roll to pizza and everything in between. The spicy chicken Manchurian with woke tossed Hakka noodles is a must-eat along with a saucy chicken Kathi roll and it doesn’t just stop there. 9x9 also serves a variety of ice-creams and pastries to soothe your sweet-tooth.
Must Savour: Chicken Manchurian & Hakka Noodles, Kathi Roll
