The Flaming Bowl — Restaurant in Kolkata

Indulge yourself in a flavourful journey at The Flaming Bowl

When we talk about authentic Pan-Asian cuisine, we can't imagine beyond non-vegetarian food. But what if we told you that the city is now home to probably its first pure vegetarian space serving authentic food from nine countries across Asia? Gorge on food from Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Korea, China, Burma and Indonesia and exotic drinks to satiate your taste buds. Presenting The Flaming Bowl adapted for vegetarians, vegans and Jains.

Where? The address reads 30 , Harish Mukherjee Road, Bhowanipore.

What's it about? The Flaming Bowl takes you through a lavish culinary journey to Asia's most loved cuisines. Asian. The Flaming Bowl (a unit of Kb’s FoodWorks) is a one-stop vegetarian haven for Asian Food Lovers featuring oriental flavours where you can indulge in a myriad of titillating cuisines from the Far East’s bespoke destinations with its splendour of exotic flavours.

What did we try? •Spicy Mushroom Dim Sum •Crunchy Potato Open Bao •Chilly Mushroom Open Bao •Thai Cottage Cheese Faffa •Spicy Sease Vegetables •Spicy Green Noodles •Carrot Cream Cheese Sushi •Thai Tender Coconut - dessert •Chocolate Cigar Roll - dessert •Coconut Dimsum - dessert •Daarsaan - dessert •Beverages - blue lagoon, watermelon mojito, Mint Tea, Iced Coffee

What you can't miss? Spicy Mushroom Dim Sum - It’s a cliché to say “you won’t even miss the meat”, but when it comes to these Mushroom Dumplings, it really is true! Savory, meaty mushrooms paired with soft crumbled tofu before being stuffed in a crispy wonton wrapper. To top it off, there’s a super tangy dipping sauce.

Thai Cottage Cheese Faffa - These fries Cottage Cheese tossed in Thai Chilli Basil Sauce is an absolute delight.

Carrot Cream Cheese Sushi - Thin carrot slices rolled around shredded carrot, cream cheese is one of it's kind.

Thai Tender Coconut - Tender coconut pudding with fresh pulp, water from tender coconut, prepared with china grass and condensed milk is indeed heavenly.

Experience a progression of rare and beautiful ingredients here at The Flaming Bowl, where texture, flavour and harmony is paramount! Tempted enough? Drop in with...

Flaming Bowl is located near Balwant Singh Dhaba. It is a pure vegetarian, family restaurant offering a variety of spread across its menu. They serve Asian, Indian, Jain and Vegan food.

We ordered the following items and each one was just yum yum.

For Starters

Som Tam Salad – It was served quick and the dressing which was given made the salad more tasty and unique.

Burmese Khao Suey – a perfect soup with balanced taste of coconut milk, very few places actually get the taste right along with the and crunchiness of peanuts and caramelised onions given as toping. A must try. It was soulful.

Tandoori Aloo – Aloo is everyones favourite and these were surely the ones which we will make you fall in love with aloo all over again. The fillings were balanced in flavours and went well with the smoky taste of the tandoor.

Broccoli Chesse Dim Sums – just melts with a bite and its was heavenly. Must dish to try.

Asparagus Sushi – These were better than Papaya and special mention to the extra spicy wasabi which they have. If you like your wasabi stronger, do call for the extra spice one. Its going to leave you totally hot.

I would like to mention about their Spicy Green Noodles. This dish was simple yet had a lot of flavours to it. The dash of lime on it while eating added even more refreshing taste to the buds and was super yum yum yum.

A huge fan of their Thai Tender Coconut – an absolute favourite and no words can describe the feeling which one has with just a bite of this icecream. Its served beautifully in coconut shell along with coconut tender icecream and white chocochips. (Must Try)

For drinks one can try Coffee O Ice, and Mint Tea. Both are good in taste and light on the tummy.

Even the owners are very warm and they make sure everything is served well at all tables and every customer leaves the restaurant with a beautiful smile, happy heart, and full stomach.

So a full five star to this place and would recommend everyone to visit at least once with family...

We are regular to the flaming bowl and it's been a personal favourite since years. We've always labelled it as our go to 'GOOD FOOD PLACE ALWAYS'.

However, yesterday was extremely disappointing. To start with, we were greeted with hair in the green chutney with dimsum. Secondly, the chilli oil had no oil, it was just like raw chilli flakes. When we requested to replace it, the staff took it but got busy in a phone call for about 10 mins. After waiting and thinking about having cold Dimsums, we requested another staff for it and he got back the same chilli flakes. Another request to replace it for a proper chilli oil, we finally got it after a wait of anotger 5 minutes. For the final show, we ordered tofu and shitake mushroom rice which clearly mentioned garlic rice. However, we got plain sticky rice with a sweet vegetable stir fry which wasn't at all appetizing! No taste of garlic at all. The staff tried to convince us for the taste being like that. We didn't want to create a scene so let it be. But, to highlight, we have had it before many times and we know what the original taste was like!! And a bonus was the sushi, which was served clearly after a lot of confusion over the sushi orders. The taste was pathetic. Nothing like before!! So in conclusion, we ordered 3 items and this is what the experience turned out to be. It is unexpected and very saddening to see this place with such poor hospitality. This makes the next visit to this past favourite...