6 Ballygunge Place wants to give a taste of authentic Bengali cuisine to people in other cities, and go abroad as well.
In Bangalore, you can step into an address that is quintessentially Kolkata — 6 Ballygunge Place, a restaurant that smacks of true ‘Bangaliana’ and serves authentic Bengali delicacies.
The restaurant, which started its journey from a sober bungalow on — you guessed right! — 6 Ballygunge Place, has recently registered a trademark of the address under Intellectual Property Rights. This is a first in India. “Since we are tenants here, the owner could always have evicted us and opened another restaurant here. We wanted to preempt any such thing,†says S Ramani, one of the three friends — the others being Sushanta Sengupta and Aninda Palit — who started the restaurant. All three had experience in the hospitality industry. “We had our specialisations in different areas of the industry and decided to start a catering business called ‘Savourites’,†says Sengupta who is the chief chef. Ramani takes care of sales and marketing, while Palit takes care of the food and beverages department.