Reservations openSeptember
Charcoal grilled paneer with saffron sauce

Kolkata · India

Rooted in earth.
Reimagined by fire.

A seasonal exploration of Indian ingredients, told through smoke, memory and a little beautiful mischief.

Tuesday — Sunday12:00 — 23:30
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The philosophy

Old soul.
New expression.

We cook with what the land gives us. Ancient Indian techniques meet curious, modern hands in a menu that changes with the seasons.

Every plate begins with a memory — a street-side flame, a grandmother’s spice box, rain on red earth — and ends somewhere entirely new.

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Aaranya's signature ember paneerSignature № 07

A dish with a past

Ember
Paneer.

Milk, smoke and saffron. A familiar ingredient transformed over charcoal, then finished with fermented pepper and mustard leaves from the chef’s garden.

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Local milk
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Kashmiri saffron
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Wood fire

A room for wonder

Come for dinner.
Stay for the story.

Low lights, warm hospitality and the pulse of an open kitchen. Aaranya is designed to make time feel a little slower.

Cooking is memory made edible.

— Chef Anika Sen

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Meet us beneath
the old banyan.

Address

17, Ballygunge Place
Kolkata, West Bengal 700019

Opening hours

Tue — Sun, 12:00 — 23:30
Monday, closed

Say hello

hello@aaranya.restaurant
+91 98300 04217

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