Park Street (officially Mother Teresa Sarani and earlier Burial Ground Road), is a famous thoroughfare in the city of Kolkata. The street runs through what was a deer park of Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Calcutta from 1773 to 1789, hence the earlier name. Its current official name was given by Kolkata Municipal Corporation in honor of Mother Teresa.
In the 1970s and 1980s much of Kolkata’s nightlife took place at Park Street. Many noted musicians had played at popular nightspots such as Trinca’s, Blue Fox, Mocambo and Moulin Rouge. Even before that, in the 1940s, 50s and 60s Kolkata’s prolific night life was centered on Park Street. The Park Hotel chain started with the opening of its first hotel, the 150 room, The Park on the fashionable Park Street on November 1, 1967.
Park Street remains Kolkata’s foremost dining district, with many restaurants and pubs. It is often known as “Food Street” and “The Street that Never Sleeps”.
Park Street has many notable showrooms, and several notable buildings such as the Asiatic Society, St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, a Seventh-day Adventist Church, and the South Park Street Cemetery has cenotaphs and tombs of prominent figures from the British Raj era and Kolkata’s European population.
Park Street is traditionally decorated with lights on Diwali, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve. Here is are couple of YouTube videos of the lights during Christmas:
Some of the famous restaurants on Park Street are:
Peter Cat
Phone Numbers: +91 033 22298841
Cuisines: Continental, North Indian
Address: 18A, Park Street, Park Street Area, Kolkata
More info: https://www.zomato.com/kolkata/peter-cat-park-street-area?ref_type=subzone&ref_id=83521
Mocambo
Phone Numbers: +91 033 22654300 / +91 033 22290095
Cuisines: Continental, Italian, North Indian
Address: 25B Park Street, Park Street Area, Kolkata
More Info: https://www.zomato.com/kolkata/mocambo-park-street-area
Trincas
Phone Numbers: +91 033 22297825 / +91 9836381777
Cuisines: North Indian, Continental, Chinese
Address: 17, Park Street, Park Street Area, Kolkata
More Info: https://www.zomato.com/kolkata/trincas-park-street-area
Moulin Rouge
Phone Numbers: +91 033 22299397 / +91 033 32552635
Cuisines: Italian, North Indian, Chinese
Address: 31, Park Street Area, Kolkata
More Info: https://www.zomato.com/kolkata/moulin-rouge-park-street-area
Kuality
Phone Numbers: +91 033 40062949 / +91 033 40013710
Cuisines: North Indian, Mughlai, Continental
Address: 17, Park Street, Park Street Area, Kolkata
More Info: https://www.zomato.com/kolkata/kwality-park-street-area
For a comprehensive list of restaurants in the Park Street area : https://www.zomato.com/kolkata/dine-out-in-park-street-area