Kolkata's Best Spots For Dessert

If you are craving dessert in Kolkata, then you are in luck. Bengalis love their sweets, and the city of joy accordingly has a collection of really popular sweet shops, dessert parlors and bakeries you can hit when that sweet tooth strikes. Here is our list of the city’s top spots to grab dessert.

1. Flurys

Bakery, Pastry Shop, Cafe, Indian, Vegetarian, Pastries, Dessert

Established in 1927, this stylish tearoom features a delicious range of cakes, pastries and other delicacies that have consistently remained the most popular in the city for almost a century. Flurys aims to provide a “homely and calming, trouble-free and relaxing space”, and that is exactly what the chic décor combined with warm lighting achieves. Their signature tea – the Flurys tea – is particularly popular and ideal to be paired with one of their buttery biscuits or cakes.

2. Balaram Mullick and Radharaman Mullick

Shop

If traditional Bengali sweets are what you are looking for, then this legendary store is where you should be headed. The store serves a good range of dessert items – from the ever-popular Bengali classic, sandesh, to laddus, pies and cakes. Balaram Mullick and Radharaman Mullick is one of the oldest sweet shops in Kolkata, and has passed through the hands of five generations of the Mullick family.

3. The Rouge

Bakery, Cafe, Pastry Shop, Tea , Pastries, Dessert, Coffee, Indian

If you are looking for some of Kolkata’s most delicious, buttery cupcakes and a cosy place to sit and devour them at, then The Rouge is where you should be. With cute décor, friendly service, a wide range of desserts and baked goodies as well as WiFi, this delightful cake shop is one of the city’s most popular dessert places and with good reason! Be sure to taste their popular red velvet cupcakes – they come with cream cheese or chocolate truffle.

5. Kookie Jar

Cafe, Tea

This bakery/café offers pastries, cupcakes, cookies and other baked treats at reasonable prices, in addition to flavourful, freshly brewed coffee. The modest yet elegant décor, ever-lingering aroma of freshly baked cakes and lovely service makes this one of Kolkata’s finest places to grab dessert.

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