Date: 9th September
Venue: Bengali Market

We were watching a play the other evening at Kamani Auditorium opposite Mandi House and were hungry. Since their snooty neighbours Nathu’s was overflowing with diners, we chose to dine at Bengali Sweet House at Bengali Market.

We rarely opt for such places for proper dinner. Instead we go to such places when we feel like having Delhi chaat and quick bites and to make dinner out of it. We have been here earlier for chai samosa but this time we ordered a stuffed gol gappa chaat. The waiter asked if we want suji or wheat (atta) gol gappe. We opted for suji. He came with our order in about 10 min but with atta gol gappe. The chaat looked nice what with colourful chutneys, pomegranate seeds and Sev on top but this is not what we ordered. We asked the waiter to change it to suji golgappe.

The waiter came back with a fresh plate of stuffed gol gappa suji this time. But it lacked garnish – no pomegranate seeds or Sev this time. This looked very basic. Golgappe tasted stale and had the smell of reused oil. Two of us couldn’t finish one plate.

We wanted to have something over the golgappa disappointmnet. Since the shop is called Bengali Sweets, we thought they can’t go wrong with rosogulla. We ordered a plate of this. The rosogulla was fibrous and extremely sweet to the point of tasting bitter.

We wonder how they manage to get so many diners with such pathetic food. Probably the location works for them. We have had better chaat and sweets at local carts and sweet shops. Sorry but Bengali Sweet House was very disappointing.