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Hilsa (Illish) Festival at Oh! Calcutta | Bengali Restaurant

Address:

Silver Spring Club, Floor 3, Em Bypass

Forum Mall, Floor 4

Phone No.: (033)2251-7036, (033)2283-7161
Timing:

Lunch : 12.30pm to 3.30pm
Dinner : 7pm to 11pm

Cost for two: INR 1,000 [TAX Extra]
Cuisine: Bengali Food. Special Items on Illish (Hilsa).

Must try at Oh Calcutta:

Steamed Boneless Hilsa with Mango Pickle
Kumro Patar Aam Acharer Illish
Grilled Hilsa
Borishali Illish Vaja
Pan Fried Hilsa
Boneless Hilsa Fillet
Hilsa Broth [Illisher Jhol]
Sorshe Illish
Lonka Bhapa Illish
Til Lonkar Illish
Dhone Rosuner Illish
Pickled Steamed Hilsa [Served with seasoned rice in clay pot]
Hilsa Pulao

Report Card:

Every year around July-August Oh! Calcutta hosts Hilsa festival keeping in mind Bengali’s affection for Illish Mach. In Kolkata a cold war between Ghoti and Bangal is well known from the football ground to kitchen everywhere they try to take over another. But Illish of Bangal has always got top rank in Bengali Cuisine over Chingri of Ghotis. Both of them are serving Bengalis taste buds for centuries but somewhere Illish starts the race a few feet ahead of Chingri.

Oh! Calcutta has arranged this festival with variety of items made with Illish among them Smoked Hilsa, Grilled Hilsa, Fried Hilsa and also very Common Hilsa Broth will get major attention. This festival is till 15th August. The availability and quality of Illish has been deteriorated for past few years. So the price of the items are a bit high though. But according to their chief chef they don’t want to compromise on quality.