Nearby Attractions
Near Sudder street (15 minutes driving /150rp taxi)
* Victoria Memorial
* St. Paul's Cathedral
* Indian Museum
* New Market
* Kolkata Zoo
* Maidan Park
* Tagore's House
* Howrah Bridge
Sudder Street
Sudder street is a street in Kolkata famous for cheap hotels and foreign tourists often prefer the living places in this street during their stay in Kolkata. There are a number of cheap eateries, foreign currency exchange kiosks and travel agencies in Sudder street. The street starts exactly opposite the Fire Brigade Headquarters on Free School Street and ends towards the entrance of Indian Museum on Chowringhee Road There is also a building on the turning of Hartford Ln. off Sudder St. where Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore lived for a while and penned a few poems
Tiretti bazar
As you walk down the street you get to see momo containers on both sides, Sausages hung from ropes and you know it’s “the” place for the typical Chinatown Calcutta breakfast. The hot Soup noodles, steamed baozi buns, dumplings in both steamed and deep fried forms everything is served out of make shift stall make for just the perfect options one can get. We decided to get a taste of everything and dug into little bit of everything that was there. The inside of the store is dark and almost on tatters with a single tungsten bulb hanging, with those old huge switch boards and yes to my utter surprise Stela still calculates on an abacus, an art that she picked up from her dad. The cute, chubby lady is a store house of info who feels proud in saying that she has an umbilical attachment to this city and happily shared her experience being a part of the city for almost around 60 years.
QUEST Shopping Mall
QUEST (previously known as Spencers Galleria) is a shopping mall in Kolkata, India. Located in Park Circus, this mall was inaugurated on 30 September 2013. With a shopping area of 730,000 sq ft (68,000 m2) and parking for 1,300 vehicles, Quest Mall is the second largest shopping mall in Kolkata, standing after the South City Mall. It is also the first luxury mall of Kolkata and also the whole of East India and the largest of its kind in India..
Tangra Chinatown
The locality was once home to 20,000 ethnic Chinese; now the population has dropped to approximately 2,000. The traditional occupation of the Chinese community here had been working in the nearby tanning industry and the Chinese restaurants. The area is still noted for the Chinese restaurants where many people flock to taste traditional Chinese and Indian Chinese food.
