• High-End Hotel Option (Rs. 3000-4000): The Park Hotel
• Budget Hotel Option (Rs. 2000-3000): Middleton Inn

• Assuming that one reaches by noon, then the first activity in Kolkata would be having Lassi from Balaram Mullick & Radharaman Mullick. Choosing their iconic Rose Lassi, Plain Lassi, and Mango Lassi, start your Kolkata stay with a nutritious and lip-smacking drink.

Jorasanko Thakur Bari (House of the Thakurs; Rabindranath Thakur): The Tagore house has been restored as the Tagore Museum. A Yellow Taxi will be the most hassle-free yet cost-effective mode of transportation looking at the current time.

The site remains open from 10:30 am to 5 pm every day (Monday full closed).

• Smaranika Tram Museum: Situated at Esplanade, this re-decorated vintage tram from 1938, showcases the history of trams in the city. Enjoy all the memorabilia while sipping your evening cup of tea or coffee. The entry fee to this museum is only 10. The Museum is open from 1-8 pm every day.
• Shaheed Minar: Next Visit which is a 7-8 minutes walk from the museum. This historical monument is dedicated to the martyrs from the Indian Independence movement. Shaheed Minar means “martyrs’ monument”. The monument is illuminated during evenings and the sight is enough to ignite patriotism in your heart.

Dahi Fuchka or Plain Fuchka (Gol Gappa) is ready if by this time if your taste buds are looking for something salty-savoury-sweet snack. Pappu Fuchka Wala’s special is one of the best options for you. The store is at 7-10 minutes of walking distance from Shaheed Minar.

• Or else, multiple Fuchka street vendors are equally good and serving the locality for generations. If you want to skip the messy serving of Phuchka yet want similar flavours, ‘Churmur’ is your best alternative.

Non-Veg Option

• Aaheli– The restaurant is famous for its Bengali cuisine and it is located in the Esplanade marketplace area. Their must-try non-veg dishes are Daab Chingri and Moton Kasha.

Veg Options

• 1000 BC – veg love Smoked Sizzler and Risotto Melanie are two must-try dishes.
• The Chutney Co. – is one of the best South Indian restaurants in the town.

Overnight stay at Kolkata.

Visiting Maidan: Approximately a 10-15 minute walk from Park Street, Start the day with a long morning walk in Maidan. You have to reach there by 6.00-6.30 in the morning to reap the most out of the surreal atmosphere.

In the winter, this vast ground of Maidan looks astonishing, covered in fog. You can also enjoy a walk through the foggy tram line alongside Maidan.

Breakfast Options:

• Wholesome breakfast at Flury’s after enjoying the morning beauty of the place. You can try their famous English breakfast, Darjeeling tea, and pastry.
• Mitra Café can be another excellent choice of breakfast and their famous Fish Kabiraji. Fish Kabiraji is a pan-fried Bhetki or Codfish fillet with exotic Bengali spices. Other best-sellers of Mitra Café are Choco Pudding, Fish Diamond Fry, and Chicken Afghani.

• Indian Museum: One of the oldest museums in the world; the Indian Museum is within 5 minutes of walking distance from Park Street. It is the largest museum in the Asia Pacific where you can find a huge collection of art, geology, fossils, archaeology, artifacts, and what not! It will take at least 2.5 hours to have a comprehensive tour inside the museum.
• The museum is closed every Monday and on public holidays. Entry fees- Rs. 50 for Indian adults, Rs. 20 for kids (above age 5), and Rs. 500 for foreigners.

Lunch Options Available within 3 km radius of Indian Museum

• Mocambo – This place is famous for its beverages; especially its Crab Cocktail and Mango Alaska. Don’t forget to try their Italian dishes as well. It will cost around 900 for two people. They serve both excellent quality veg and non-veg items.
• The Bhoj Company – pocket-friendly yet authentic option. This place is famous for its Bengali and Chinese dishes costing approx. Rs. 500 for 2. 
  • Must try Delicacies:
  • Non-Veg: Gondhoraj Chicken Fry, Vetki Paturi, and Kochu Pata Chingri Bhapa.
  • Veg: Postor Bora, Sona Moong Daal, and Laccha Poroth
• Peter Cat – Famous Restaurant for its Chelo Kebab, It’s an Iranian delicacy that is rarely available in restaurants. 

Sightseeing Options

• Victoria Memorial (Approx 3 km from Indian Museum): one of the most beautiful architectures in the country. Entry fees for the museum are respectively Rs. 20 for Indian adults and Rs. 200 for foreigners. There is no designated tour guide as such. You can take a stroll and spend some quality time with yourself. The Victoria Memorial Gallery is open from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm (Monday closed) and the Victoria Gardens is open from 5:30 am to 6:15 pm (every day).
• Birla Planetarium or Taramandal as it is locally called is the largest planetarium in Asia and 2nd largest in the World.

Shopping Alert

• Dharamtala Esplanade: (New Market) for street shopping. New Market is a street shoppers’ paradise with 400+ shops ranging from clothing material to local jewelry to home decor stuff. New Market consists of 5 old market buildings of British Architecture and widely-spread street shops. The main building itself is beautiful and is worth capturing in the phone memory. Esplanade or New Market is the perfect duo of all-you-want shops and yummy local street foods.
  You can easily spend 2-3 hours here depending on your shopping hunger.
• Academy of fine arts gallery: India’s one of the oldest fine art galleries. You can also hop on a taxi or a car to get there. This remains open from 3 to 9 pm except for Monday. (Within 4 km)

Dinner Options

• Bhojohori Manna (Maidan, Esplanade branch) It is the nearest and the most authentic Bengali restaurant all across the city. This food joint is approximately 2.5 km from Birla Planetarium. A cab or a yellow taxi will hardly take 7 minutes to drop you there.
  • Non-veg must-tries: Chicken Dak Bunglow, Mutton Babri Handi, and Super Jumbo Ilish Barishali.
  • Veg must-tries: Potol Dolma (Narkel Shorshe), Dhokar Dalna, and Postor Borar Jhal.
  • The regular dinner meal will cost you around ₹ 600 for two (approx.)
• Kasturi – Its a restaurant specializing in Bangladeshi Cuisine

Back to the hotel for the night stay. Won’t you post the day’s pictures on Instagram now?

Breakfast at Sharma Tea House, Bhowanipore: Only 2 km from Park Street. Have their famous Khasta Kochuri with super famous Tea.

• Other highlights of their menu are Deep-fried Singara, lassi, Jalebis Nimki, Gulab jamun, and many more local famous snacks.

Birla Mandir: Around 3.5 km from Park Street. The temple is open every day from 5.30 to 11 am and from 4.30 to 9  pm. Apart from the spirituality aspect, this temple is a must-visit for its stunning architectural excellence which is a conglomeration of ancient craftsmanship and engineering genius.

Mother’s Wax Museum: It will take around 30 minutes if there is any traffic jam. The museum has wax idols of some iconic personnel from the world of cinema, cricket, science, literature, and so on. The museum opens from 12 to 7.30  pm and it is closed on Mondays. Entry fees to the museum are Rs. 250 for one person above the age of 3.

Lunch Options

• Biswa Bangla Gate: This hanging restaurant has a 360-degree panoramic view of the city. It is a testimonial of modern architecture and an icon of Kolkata. The food is decent and will cost around Rs. 500 per person.
• The Sixth Sense: is an all-time favourite for its Multicuisine menu, Live Music, Live Sports Screening, and Dance Floor. They serve both veg and non-veg dishes. Fish Achari Tikka and Kesari Murg are their must-tries. A meal for 2 will cost you around Rs. 1000.
• The Accord is more on the economical side without compromising on the food quality. They are famous for their Chinese and North Indian dishes. ‘Murg Achari Kebab’ and ‘Ajwaini Fish Tikka’ are their best-sellers.

Eco Park– the largest park in India to date. The park remains closed on Monday and for the rest of the days, the open hours are 2:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Only on every Sunday, the park remains open from 12:00 pm to 8:30 pm. Entry Fees in the park start from Rs. 50 per head and goes up to Rs. 150 depending on the activities inside the Park.

• Built upon 480 acres of land, this urban park is popular among nature lovers. It is a visual treat with replicas of many iconic monuments, statues around the world along with Seven Wonders. The place even has a mini zoo inside it. Although, try to avoid weekends if you are not a fan of too much crowd.

• Evening Snacks Café Ekante is a boat-shaped restaurant and café floating on the lake inside Eco Park.
  Mishti Hub on the way while leaving Eco Park. It is just beside gate number-3. This place is popular among the sweet lovers of the city. It houses stalls from renowned sweet-shops from all across Kolkata and neighbouring districts.
• Come back to the hotel and enjoy the nightlife at Park Street.

Dinner at Koshe Kosha (Ripon Street) to try something hyper-local for dinner. Pay a visit to and start your dinner with Bengali Saag Bhaja, Aam Pora (traditional mango sorbet to cool down the body; mainly served as a starter), or Gondhoraj Ghol (another healthy starter drink) and gradually fill the plate with Vetki Paturi/Bhetki Chingri Melbondhon, Chingrir Cutlet, kankrar Jhal, Morola Macher Tel Jhal, and Aam Doi.

• A few non-veg best-sellers: Vetki Paturi, Chingrir Cutlet, and kankrar Jhal
• A few veg best-sellers: Mochar Chop, Beguni (starters), and Channar Dalna.
• Desert best-sellers: Aamer Chutney, Anarasher Chutney and Daab (Green Coconut) Ice Cream.

Come back to the hotel and take a rest.

Dharmatala is your first destination of the day. Shop from ‘Asian Arts‘ an exclusive silver jewellery shop, best for souvenir gifts. 

Head to College Street from Dharmatala, on a tram. Trams are available at regular intervals.

• Breakfast at Coffee House. This place has an enriched history as a breeding ground for cultural, political, and freedom movements. Many patrons, directors like Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Sunil Gongopadhay have been there. The quality of their classic Hot Coffee, Cold Coffee, Sandwiches, and Fish Fry has been strongly maintained for decades.
• Look around the college street after breakfast. There are many bookstalls and shops to buy from. You can buy books and paintings in the shops there. Leaving behind the ‘boi para’ (a colony of books), take a bus ride or a cab to Howrah.

Tour to the Howrah Bridge; one of the popular bridges of India, is also known as Rabindra Setu. You can witness the splendid structure of the bridge and at the same time the beautiful Hooghly River flowing down. If you are travelling in a car, you can halt at the bridge and have a walk.

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanical Garden is considered to be the country’s most beautiful landscape with its artificially build lakes and around 12,000 rare plants and specimens.

• The key attraction of the place is the 250 years old ‘The Great Banyan Tree‘ which has secured a place in the Guinness Book of World Record as the “The Widest Tree in the World” with its 3618 prop roots covering about 14,500 square meters of land (3.5 acres). This garden has a rare collection of exotic plants from five continents.
  • Timings: 10 am 5 pm.
  • Entry fee – Rs 100. Mobile photography is free camera – ticket – Rs. 20.
    Closed on Mondays

Lunch at Bhuri Bhoj – a Bengali cuisine specialist on the way to Botanical Gardens. The place is quite neat and clean with a well-behaved staff. It will cost you around Rs. 300 for two people.

Princep Ghat after spending the evening in the lap of nature. Princep Ghat is the best place in Kolkata to witness the sunset from. Located at the bank of the Hooghly River. You will see the sparkling Howrah Bridge in the evening light, connecting the two cities (Howrah and Kolkata).

You can have a boat ride and enjoy the serenity of the river. It is a perfect place for adda (gossip) with your loved ones over Phuchka, Bhelpuri, Pao-Vaji, and other street foods.
After spending the evening there, come back to Park Street by bus or taxi.

Dinner Options

Scoop on the way to Park Street from Princep ghat.

• Special attraction: Shakes (My Sunshine, Miss Wonderland, Coco Iccha), Sundaes (As You Like It, Zing Zing)
• Popular non-veg dishes: Thai noodles sundae and chicken keema dosa
• Popular veg dishes: Corn Kebab, Golu Molu burger

Trincas – Popular veg dish: Veg Tetrazzini and Butter Pepper Garlic Long Beans

• Popular non-veg dish: Mutton Rogan Josh and Fish Taka Tak
• The average cost is Rs. 700 for two people. Also, listen to live music at Trincas.

China Town is another popular option. This is a colony of large inhabitants of East Asians, especially Chinese. This place is celebrated for its well-preserved Chinese traditions and food cultures. China Town’s air is always filled with fragrances from multiple authentic Chinese restaurants.

A few of the best-picks are: Kim Ling Chinese Mini Restaurant

• Sei Vui Restaurant
• Pou Hing
• Tai Sen Chinese Eating House
• Pay a visit to ‘Kim Ling Chinese Mini Restaurant‘ and try their famous rice noodles.
• The average cost for two people is ₹500.
• Other must-tries: Five Spices Chicken, Blasting Chicken, and Lemon Chicken.

Overnight stay in Kolkata.

Check-out from the hotel and leave for Dumdum airport by bus or taxi.
Proceed to the airport or railway station for your journey back home.