Kenilworth to join the fray of Bengali restaurants

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Friday , April 11, 2008 at 2358 hrs Come November, The Kenilworth will launch its Bengali restaurant to give the likes of Bhojohori Manna, Aaheli, Oh! Calcutta, Kewpie's and 6 Ballygunge Place a run for their money.

"The name of this 65-seater restaurant has not been finalised and we are working on it," said The Kenilworth vice-president (operations), RS Singh.

"We are also planning to open a bartending course in the hotel premise from the next month," he said. The four-month certificate course will initially start with 30 students. "The basic qualification to enroll in this course is 10 + 2 pass," he told reporters. The fee will be Rs 35,000 per student. "We have hired trainers from hospitality background," he said on the sidelines of a press meet to inaugurate the hotel's Poila Boisakh food festival, at the coffee shop, Aromas.

The food festival will go on from April 13 to 15. On the charges, Singh said: "Per head we are charging Rs 750, excluding tax, and basically we are targeting higher middle class people."

"Last year we sold 800 buffets. So this year we are aiming 1000 footfalls," he told reporters.

"Our regular buffet price is Rs 650, excluding tax, but owing to the occasion we have increased the price by Rs 100," Singh said.

The menu will include chingri malai curry, shukto, loytta macher ghanta, aloo posto, chanar dalna, kanch kola kofta, shorshe begun, sona moonger dal, chhanar jalebi, payesh, among others.