One kitchen, from thefirst tea to the last plate
Amar Tree Express has a single restaurant, and it carries the whole day rather than opening in short bursts around fixed mealtimes. The kitchen cooks across Chinese, Indian and seafood dishes, a range that reflects how people eat in this part of Kolkata rather than an attempt to please everybody at once.
The dining room is family-friendly and unhurried. Children are welcome, tables are easy to share, and nobody minds if a meal stretches out longer than the plates strictly require. A halal dietary option is available for guests who need it, and the front desk is the right place to raise any other requirement in advance.
The dining room downstairs, where breakfast is laid out each morning and can be carried up to the room instead when the day starts early.
Chinese, Indian and seafood cooking
Breakfast, brunch, lunch, high tea, dinner
Room service through the day
Breakfast, brunch and the long middle of the day
Breakfast suits both the guest heading straight out to a meeting and the one easing into a slower morning, and taking it in the room is a perfectly ordinary request rather than a favour. Through the middle of the day the restaurant continues with brunch, lunch and high tea before turning toward dinner.
Packed lunches can be arranged for guests with a long day of travel ahead, which is worth asking about the evening before rather than on the way out of the door.
- Breakfast
- Served at the property in Asian and buffet formats, and available in the room for guests who would rather not come downstairs before a first flight or a first meeting.
- Brunch
- A slower option for mornings that begin late, which is most mornings for families and for anybody who arrived on a night train into the city.
- Lunch
- Chinese, Indian and seafood dishes from the same kitchen, cooked to order rather than held over from the morning service.
- High tea
- The quiet stretch of the afternoon, when the dining room empties out and a pot of tea is easier to come by than a table anywhere else nearby.
- Dinner
- Family-friendly and unhurried, with tables that are easy to share and no expectation that a meal is finished by a particular hour.
- Room service
- Running through the day for meals taken upstairs, which suits late arrivals, working evenings and quiet nights with children already asleep.
When the room is the easier table
Not every meal needs a restaurant table. Room service runs alongside the kitchen, so a late arrival, a working evening or a quiet night with family can all be handled upstairs without anybody having to change out of travelling clothes.
Guests staying with children often find this the simplest way to end the day, particularly after a long journey into the city, and kids' meals can be arranged at an additional charge. If you have a dietary requirement or need a meal outside the usual rhythm of the day, speaking to the front desk in advance is the surest way to have it sorted properly.
The terrace and common areas give guests somewhere to sit between meals, which the long Kolkata afternoons tend to call for.