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Your selection for contenders for best barrackpore biriyani should have been more and should have involved dada boudi restaurant along with dada boudi hotel and D bapi restaurant. Also in contention for Kolkata Biriyani not only Arsalan, there should be mentions of name Shiraz,Zam Zam as well. But for the undisputed kings of biriyani title, it’s between Dada Boudi Restaurant(not Hotel) and D Bapi(Barrackpore branch)
My thoughts on this are that the biryani at Kathi Junction’s Newtown branch is the best one in Kolkata right now.
Your selection for contenders for best barrackpore biriyani should have been more and should have involved dada boudi restaurant along with dada boudi hotel and D bapi restaurant. Also in contention for Kolkata Biriyani not only Arsalan, there should be mentions of name Shiraz,Zam Zam as well. But for the undisputed kings of biriyani title, it’s between Dada Boudi Restaurant(not Hotel) and D Bapi(Barrackpore branch)