Monday, 8 April 2013

Walk into to Sher-e-Bengal and dine at reasonable rate



Sher-e-Bengal is a restaurant situated at 200/2B, Rash Behari Avenue, Kolkata. It includes North Indian and Chinese cuisines in its menu chart. It is a dining hub of Bedouin group. It is one of the famous and old dining houses in the major shopping area of South Kolkata, well known as Gariahat.

I have been in this restaurant many times because this is a place where an array of eateries is available at reasonable rate. You can make your choices from Chinese, North Indian and Bengali dishes. The restaurant is itself spacious but the arrangement of dining tables and chairs has made the both the dining halls on first and second floor, very clumsy.

I visited the restaurant recently with my family on a Sunday evening after a lot of shopping for upcoming Durga Puja. When we entered the dining hall, we found many other families like us, enjoying or placing orders for their dinners after a lot of shopping. One of the staff guided us to a table for four.

Once we were comfortable, the same person came and asked for the order to be placed. After a little discussion among ourselves, we placed our order. As we knew that Chinese is our only option here, for starters we ordered Dry Chilli Chicken for three of us (my father, brother and me) and for my mother, we ordered Crispy Babycorn and Mushroom. For the main course, we ordered Chicken Chowmein, Chicken Fried Rice and Veg Chowmein along with Salsa Chicken and Chilli Fish. The food was good as usual. 

Sher-e-Bengal’s Chinese is good and can be rated as mediocre but after tasting North Indian once or twice here, I came to a point that this is simply not their cup of tea. I am a regular diner at popular North Indian houses like Zeeshan and Arsalan and after tasting at those places, you will not feel like having North Indian at this restaurant.

Moreover, the service here is also not up-to-dated. Although there are a number of waiters, often I have seen that after giving a number of calls to the waiter, they finally respond. The waiters are also not well trained. Once, it also happened to me that while dine-in I placed an order for take-away and they served that item on the table.

To be frank, this is not a perfect dining hub if you want to enjoy a lip smacking and luxurious dining experience.  But within pocket friendly budget, you can surely enjoy average quality of service and food here. 

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