The Glenburn Cafe, Park Street area, Kolkata

Restaurant Name: The Glenburn Cafe
Phone: +919073912550
Address: 7A, Anandilal Poddar Sarani, Park Street area, Kolkata, West Bengal 700071 India
Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 AM
Meals for two: Rs. 900
Cuisines: Continental, Salad, American, Fast Food, Beverages
Facilities: Breakfast, Home Delivery, Takeaway Available, Outdoor Seating, Romantic Dining, All Day Breakfast, Indoor Seating

The GlenBurn Cafe: About

Park Street has its quaint little spots amongst the high energy razzmatazz. If you take a turn and interest into Russell Street, you’ll find your way through the labyrinth of century-old and new architecture sprucing up the way, till you emerge at a hidden courtyard of sorts at The Glenburn Café, at the other end of the long thoroughfare.
Aesthetics run high in the Calcutta colonial vintage with the openness, daylight bathed interiors and is a perfect extension of the tea-estate branded hospitality. The impressive ceiling height, green cast iron Victorian glass house architecture, dainty wooden louvre-frills, flower boxes on the windows, classic marble flooring lead to indoor outdoor comfort seating and running window bar stools. Neat dessert displays, wall mounted smoothie-shakes-tea-coffee listing, myriad tea caddies and discreet service staff add to the pleasantly old-fashioned charm.

Food:

The menu delves deep into the veins of a Calcutta food aficionado. A curation by the Britain born Shaun Kenworthy, it spills out his personal experiences over the last two decades in the city. With quirky takes of local ingredients and focusing on a seasonal palate, it brings in a fashionable perspective to mundane cafe fare. Whether it is the rolling of the tiny mustard seeds or a squeeze of the fragrant Gondhoraj lemon it’s the stories that walk the talk. We go slow with a Papa Pomodoro salad (280), Rare Roast Tenderloin on toast (310), Flatbread with Mushroom, Spinach, Feta & Rosemary (320), a main of the newest addition of Prawn, Olive, Garlic and Tomato stew with Pilafrice (640) and finally all day breakfast bite of Proper French Toast (270). A pot of aromatic, full-bodied Darjeeling second flush (170) to wrap up things.

Plus & Minus:

The rustle of the tart tomatoes, Iceberg, red onions, Kalamata olives, drizzled with perky Bengal mustard dressing, crunch of croutons and Parmesan dust made for a bright afternoon start. A brazen presentation of the medium rare, sliced, slightly pink tenderloin on crusty sourdough toast with the slick sweetness of caramelised onion, topped with a grainy pop of house mustard and twigs of rocket brags stellar notes; in contrast, the tomato slathered flatbread, topped with sautéed spinach and mushrooms and crumbled feta drives home nothing more than the
crunch. For mains, the fragrant pilaf rice is a nice side to the wee bit overdone bunch of prawns in red tomato slurry, we blame it on the bad choice. Finally the milky-egg dunked fried log of bread French toast, softened core and crusty coating, with freshly whipped cream and mush of wild berries is connoisseur class. Though later, our take home chocolate eclairs (₹180) choux was not fresh enough and the Chocolate Truffle slice (₹250) ordinary, but I’ve had the best Almond tart in recent times here.