Shopping in Kolkata

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Indian draped minimalism since 1998 — deconstructed lehengas in raw silk, aari embroidery, and understated opulence. Deepika Padukone's favourite.

Best for Draped minimalist Indian couture

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Bhawanipore, Kolkata

Founded in 1885, this family-run sweet house built its reputation on classic sandesh and later added baked and fusion mishti such as chocolate sandesh without abandoning traditional recipes. Multiple outlets across South Kolkata still make sweets fresh daily using the original family formulas.

Best for Sandesh in both classic and modern forms

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Lake Road, Kolkata

Rishabhchand founded this silk house in 1926 during the Non-Cooperation movement, and it is now in its fourth generation of family ownership, with the site itself warning against imitators using similar names. The Lake Road and College Street showrooms carry Banarasi, Kanchipuram, Baluchari, and Dhakai sarees among other regional weaves.

Best for A wide range of regional silk sarees under one roof

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Natun Bazar, North Kolkata

Established in 1841 and now run by the fourth generation of the founding family, this North Kolkata sweet shop is best known for karapak and other sandesh varieties made from fresh chhana. It also produces payesh and chandrapuli, supplying households and corporate clients across the city.

Best for Karapak sandesh from a nearly 200-year-old kitchen

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Bowbazar, Kolkata

Founded in 1886 in Bowbazar, Kolkata's traditional jewellery quarter, this family-run house grew from a single goldsmith's shop into a multi-generation gold, diamond, and bridal jewellery business. It still trades on Bengali craftsmanship traditions for pieces like the tabij and cabling-work bangles associated with the city.

Best for Bengali gold and bridal jewellery from an 1886 house

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India's most iconic luxury brand —100M+ empire of bridal lehengas, zardozi embroidery, and 'organized chaos'. Worn by Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone.

Best for Indian bridal couture

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Central Kolkata

Banchharam Ghosh opened the Central Kolkata sweet shop in 1974, and the house now makes more than 250 Bengali sweets and savouries. Its range includes jal bhara and taalshash alongside ghee-rich traditional confectionery, giving shoppers a broad Kolkata sweet-shop assortment without turning an ingredient promise into an objective quality ranking.

Best for Jal bhara and a wide traditional sweets range

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Biswa Bangla, run by Paschim Banga Marketing Corporation Limited from Garia Commercial Park in Kolkata, sells Bengal handloom sarees including Baluchari, Nakshi Kantha and Jamdani alongside Bengal Dokra metalwork and Patachitra paintings. It also carries Sundarban mangrove honey, Darjeeling tea and jute products.

Best for Baluchari and Jamdani handloom sarees

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Ballygunge, Kolkata

Rumi and Bappaditya Biswas opened Byloom in 2011 to work directly with weaving clusters producing jamdani, double-cloth, and fine muslin cotton, adapting handloom techniques for everyday wear rather than only formal saris. The Kolkata store and its weaver partners also turn out kurtas, dupattas, scarves, and handwoven home textiles.

Best for Jamdani and muslin sarees woven with contemporary designs

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Gariahat, Kolkata

Kshetra Mohan Saha established this saree shop in Dhaka in 1925; the family reopened it on Rash Behari Avenue in Gariahat after relocating to Kolkata in 1946-47. Now run by the fourth generation, it deals in Banarasi, silk, and Dhakai-muslin sarees along with blouses and shawls.

Best for Dhakai-muslin and Banarasi sarees at accessible prices

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Kolkata, India

Genesis Art Gallery deals in contemporary Indian painting and prints, representing established and emerging artists including Jogen Chowdhury, S.H. Raza, Suhas Roy and Ram Kinker Baij. Founded in 1985, the Kolkata gallery sells originals directly online with an authenticity guarantee and has exhibited at the Contemporary Art Fair India.

Best for Contemporary Indian paintings and prints by established and emerging artists

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Bowbazar, Kolkata

H.K. Dutta Jewellers began as a modest shop in Kolkata in 1950 and has since expanded to multiple showrooms across the city, including Garia and Bowbazar. It sells 22k and 18k gold jewellery such as necklaces, bangles, rings, earrings, mangalsutras and gold coins.

Best for 22k and 18k gold jewellery

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Bagbazar, Kolkata

This Bagbazar sweet house traces its lineage to Nobin Chandra Das, credited with inventing the spongy rosogolla in the 1860s, and the family later pioneered canning the syrup-soaked sweet for long-distance travel. The shop still centers its counter on rosogolla, sponge rosogolla, and rajbhog alongside other milk-based Bengali sweets.

Best for Rosogolla, the sweet K.C. Das made famous

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Park Street, Kolkata

Oxford Bookstore sells new releases, bestsellers, Bengali literature, children's books and box sets in India, with free shipping on orders above 250 rupees. Its site features an Author of the Month section on Salman Rushdie, whose Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize.

Best for New and bestselling books

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Pioneering Indian designer since the 1960s — block-printed heirlooms, eco-dyes from Rajasthan, and bridge between ancient motifs and fusion wear.

Best for Heritage block-printed Indian fashion

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Mirza Ghalib Street, Kolkata

Sasha makes handcrafted apparel, home textiles, furniture, gifts, metal crafts, jewelry and pottery using block printing, batik, kantha embroidery and dhokra brass casting, working with more than a hundred artisan and craft communities across India. It is a Guaranteed Member of the World Fair Trade Organization with shops in Kolkata and Delhi.

Best for Fair-trade handcrafted textiles and crafts

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Lindsay Street, Kolkata

Satyabrata Dey started this leather goods business from a small shop on Lindsay Street in the early 1960s, aiming to make quality leather footwear affordable rather than a luxury good. The family-run brand, now led by the founder's descendants, remains a Bengal household name for shoes, bags, and belts.

Best for Leather footwear and bags at accessible prices

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Product pages identify fibre, warp and weft details for individual saris and fabrics, helping buyers compare construction. The catalogue also warns that small irregularities are characteristic of handloom production rather than defects.

Best for West Bengal handloom textiles from state cooperatives

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Ballygunge, Kolkata

Operating since 1993, Weavers Studio produces hand-woven silks and other natural-fiber fabrics with custom embroidery for designers and saree buyers alike. The Ballygunge atelier also runs a textile research and archive arm alongside its retail operation.

Best for Hand-woven silk fabric and embroidered sarees

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