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Updated On: 22 October, 2009 06:40 AM IST | | Namita Gupta

Bengali food at Bhojohori Manna will get you nostalgic, with the restaurant's homely touch

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Bengali food at Bhojohori Manna will get you nostalgic, with the restaurant's homely touch

Bengali food has been hogging the limelight in the culinary circles off late. Koramangala is bustling with restaurants catering to this cuisine Esplanade, Kolkata and now Bhojohori Manna. It's like a new invention as this food is very typical with very unique flavours of bitter, saline, sweet, sour, pungent, astringent and a meticulous and appetising combo of all of these in one or many ways.

Bhojohori Manna, my Bong companion tells me, is from a Manna De song from the 70s aami sri sri bhojohori manna. The restaurant is in two levels, though each of them are so narrow that the tables are placed at hardly a feet from each other, with only six tables on the first floor. There's nothing that will strike you about Kolkata here, other than kantha fabric on the chairs, the classic Rabindra Sangeet and the whiff of fish oil in the air.

The menu is exhaustive and confusing for those who are not accustomed to Bengali names like koraishutir binuni kochuri, parshe shorshe, chitol muitha, lau ghonto and the likes, with no English translations on the menu. You will need assistance from the serving staff on their recommendations. And the moment you pick something that might catch your fancy; be prepared to hear a, "Sorry, we don't have it today", which is quite a downer.