Wykiki — Restaurant in West Bengal

Wykiki just announced themselves in the race of open-air rooftop restaurants and bars. The latest hotspot in town aims to provide a first-of-its-kind South Asian street food experience to Kolkata. Dining area has a series of fantastically designed glass cabanas surrounded by beautiful lily ponds, enhances the fine dining experience amidst a lush tropical ambiance.

Our street food journey commenced from the bustling alleys of Thailand before moving to the historic Vietnam and detour to coastal regions of Indonesia. The bandwagon reached its penultimate when it reached at the Land of Rising Sun, Japan and parking it at the Land of Dragons, China.

To start on a healthy note, Thai Lotus Root is a perfect example. Lip-smacking delicious creation from Thailand where the lotus roots cut in thin circles and fried to perfect crispiness. Its crunchy outside and not dry inside. Drenched in sweet n tangy sauce and finished with sesame seeds on top. This vanished quickly too from our platters. Vietnamese Rice Rolls are refreshing change from the usual fried appetizers. Translucent rice paper rolls are packed with bright, fresh and crispy flavours and served with an insanely addictive dipping sauce.

Jimbaran Style Tiger Prawns from shores of Bali, is a grilled prawn dish and at Wykiki they gives it a saucier twist with scrumptious summer salsa relish. Tiger Prawn Tempura is the classic ultra-light Japanese batter is perfectly fried tiger prawns. The twist here lies with the dusting of shichimi or seven spice Japanese powder. This is relished perfectly with ponzu sauce.

Another instant hit was Beijing Express Whistling Chicken. Crunchy nuggets of chicken and served with hot smoky chilis and beans. Not sure why is this called Beijing Express, guess in express speed one will wipe off the plate. In their dim sums we were served with Gold Dusted Dark & Handsome Chicken Dim Sum. The coal black dumplings dragged everyone’s attention on table. The black colour is achieved with dehydrated beetroots and wheat starch and the dim sums were garnished with 24 carat gold dust. The chicken dumpling shall be enjoyed with chili oil.

We were served with oriental cocktails like Meemaw, Asian Daiquiri, Crystal Gin & Tonic and Good Karma. But these failed to impress us with its imbalance taste and lack correct proportion of sweetness and alcohol. Such a shame!

Pro Tip: Must try Thai Lotus Root, Tiger Prawn Tempura, Gold Dusted Dark & Handsome Chicken Dim Sum and Beijing Express...

When you're looking for the perfect destination to let loose with your partner or Friends, there's no better place than Wykiki.

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I'm not talking about the famous Wykiki Beach, which is located in Hawaii or Ohau.

This place is situated in the 6th floor of Swissotel Kolkata; named as - Wykiki, Asian Street Bar.

While you're here, you might not get the sounds of waves lapping the shores, but you can enjoy the open sky sitting on a bench or the inside the cabana.

But yes, the sounds of aeroplanes will be there.

Last evening I visited this place with my foodie friends and had enjoyed a lot over the cocktails and sumptuous food.

Now I would like to start with cocktails that we had. Some of them werere vodka based, some were gin based and some were whiskey based. If you are choosing them from the menu search for Mee maw, Asian daiquiri, Crystal G&T and Good karma.

Taking sips from the crystal glasses we had food also. I'm starting with Beijing Whistling Chicken. In this dish you'll find fried chicken chunks along with peanuts and the world famous bhoot jholokia. I had only the pieces of chicken. If you love to add spice, you are always welcome to have the bhoot jholokia And then to give some sweetness to the tastebuds, we had Crispy Lotus Stem. This dish was amazing. After that, we had Vietnamese Rice Paper Roll. I think, I had 3-4 rolls. So, it's enough to describe how I loved the food. By the way, you love Prawn Tempura, right? Me too. So obviously we had it and this is a dish that you can't miss ordering this crispy fingers made of prawn. And we didn't stop. We had Jamarian Prawn. This is another famous street food of Hawaii. The taste of this dish was very refreshing. What are your thinking, how much we ate? Then I have two more dishes for you - Dark Hand Dimsum which was non-veg, I mean chicken; & Veg Crystal Dimsum. But I'm in love with those handsome dimsums.

Okay, now I'm stopping my pen here and recommending you to visit this place and enjoy the food and beverages with the ambiance.

By the way, if you're thinking about the pocket pinch, let me tell you that this place is actually very pocket friendly...

Though the most common feedback across Google is the courtesy of the staff… the one thing I want to mention is the help provided in Menu selection, which was just perfect not only in quantity but also as per our palate… this “above & beyond” approach is what sets this unique team headed by their F&B Manager apart… We went for a family birthday celebration and the quick arrangements made for our table with orchids and dried rose petal’s was worth a mention… On the dining, we left it to the restaurant manager and he didn’t disappoint us, with Chicken Dumplings-very thin outer layer, not so yummy as we have tasted better than this in other joints, Thai Pandian Chicken-more of a South Indian taste and the ever green Crispy Fried Bekti-Chilli Fish, followed by a Cantonese Creamed Corn Soup-Sweet Corn Chicken Soup… the main course came with “one of the best” mixed combination Noodles and a mixed combination fried rice perfectly paired with Clay Pot Chicken Bambooshoot in Chilli Sauce-this was another experience to have… Even though we enjoyed our time here, there is definitely scope of improvement if I see it from a food connoisseur PoV… reservations can be more efficient (feedback shared with restaurant Floor Manager) as had to wait for close to 30 mins and bother the floor manager Harsh and senior FnB management to make it to the table… cleanliness is definitely another area to be looked into with immediate effect, feedback shared with the restaurant manager, details avoided here intentionally… Overall, a great fine dining experience managed by a team of good and honest intention partners going above and beyond to make it right and a memorable experience for guests like us… Definitely a 5* Thumbs Up to the team… Thanks for making our...