Mud Café — Restaurant in Kolkata

While the place looked good, the food and service was really below average. To begin with, half the items on the menu weren’t actually available or had a wait time of more than an hour. Unable to find anything we liked that was not fried, not spicy and was actually available under 1 hour of wait time, we decided to get some pasta. The menu announced “pasta in red sauce” and “pasta in white sauce” as the only two option. So we beckoned to one of the wait staff and asked him what pasta they used for each of these two items on the menu. Pat came the reply: “We use good pasta, SIr!” Reassured, I asked him again: “Good for us, but I meant what kind of pasta do you use for these items on the menu?” Visibly puzzled by my off-question, he tried to reason with me once more: “Sir, one in red sauce and one in white sauce.” “Red sauce more spicy,” he added. Not one to give up easily, I explained again: “No, no, I mean WHAT KIND OF PASTA? Is it fusilli, penne, spaghetti, what?” By this time, seeing the man’s plight, another wait staff had come up to our table and this man seemed more knowledgeable about pasta as he confidently affirmed that they used fusilli for both dishes. Hearing him the first man went: “Fusilli, fusilli, we use fusilli.” Then he further added, “Sorry, Sir, naam ta mone chilo na. Fusilli. Company’r naam bolcchen toh. Lekha chilo opore .... bhulegechilam.” [Sorry, Sir, couldn’t remember the name. It’s fusilli. You mean the brand name, right? It was printed on top (of the box) but had slipped my mind] Hearing him, I glanced exasperatedly at the other man, who reassured me that it is indeed fusilli that they used and that his colleague was new, so he didn’t know.

So, we ordered a ‘white pasta.’ Three quarters of an hour later came out a plate of spaghetti in white sauce!

We decided not to point out the obvious inadvertent error; finished our meals quickly, paid and quietly left the place. And we don’t plan to go back anytime soon either. But for what it’s worth, the other dish that we had ordered - a khichadi, although very spicy, wasn’t...

This was my first time in this cafe .

place :- It is situated right beside Manyavar and mohey's showroom.

food:- the food was average and the tea was very refreshing. i was sad when i saw the salad they served was in a plate which made it hard to have it (it would have been better if it was in a bowl instead of a plate.)

price:- It is indeed reasonable in priceI took a pot of darjiling tea and a greek salad with chicken with 5% gst it total costed me to ₹ 283.

service :- service is average and the behaviour of the manegment was good and they were helpful but only they took too much time in serving the food. i was actually disappointed on that because my dish was not such a huge dish to make and they at that point of time did not have much customer as it was afternoon.

atmosphere:- thats a twisr for people who want to come here as its an artistic or aesthetic you may call kind of place and basically Rabindra Sangeet is plated all the time .

All in all its a bit more than average but a bit less...

This is my go-to place for coffee whenever I'm in Kolkata. But being home to the legendary Rabindra sangeet artist Debabrata Biswas, it's just not a coffee shop but more of a shrine to the art and the artist. Yet sometimes big groups come and create a ruckus disturbing fellow diners. Complaining to the staff or requesting them to request the offending table to keep the noise down yields no result. One can't hear a single word of the music that is being played. Please take care of this . In fact many accomplished artists come here to perform too. Therefore the sanctity of this place should be the first priority. Kindly train your staff to politely handle the situation. Maybe you can put up suitable notices and posters to remind the diners that this is just not a cafe and they should moderate their voices. This place is history and...