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As soon as thought to be Kolkata’s lifeline, trams are slowly dropping their relevance to different modes of transportation.
However there’s a spot the place one can relive the town’s heritage together with some lip-smacking delicacies — welcome to the Kolkata road meals tram restaurant close to the favored vacationer vacation spot Eco Park in New City, Kolkata.
This 20-seater restaurant is delighting meals fanatics with its road meals choices, starting from the crispy ‘khasta kachori’ to the mouthwatering ‘papri chat’.
Positioned reverse the Mom’s Wax Museum, the normal picket seats of the tram have been transformed into tables and chairs for patrons, whereas the inside maintains its unique look with hanging followers, picket log flooring, and passenger notices scribbled on the partitions.
Subsequent to the tram café, a pillar is adorned with illustrations of Kolkata’s iconic ambassador taxis and hand-pulled rickshaws, bringing again the nostalgic flavour from the 60s-80s when black-yellow taxis dominated the streets earlier than being changed by yellow taxis.
Regardless of the disappearance of trams from the streets, this café serves as a reminder of the heritage and tradition related to this vintage mode of transportation.
Environmentalist SM Ghosh mentioned trams are surroundings pleasant, evoke nostalgia and there ought to be a transfer to introduce the youthful era to those disappearing types of transport in an period dominated by app cabs.
Café supervisor Tarashankar Chatterjee mentioned the eatery is open from midday to 9 pm and attracts lots of people throughout night hours on working days, in addition to all through the day in the course of the winter season when vacationers go to the realm.
Debashis Sen, managing director of the West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Growth Company Ltd (HIDCO), mentioned the initiative is run by Café Ekante underneath HIDCO.
Café Ekante, a restaurant chain established by HIDCO, not solely operates the tram café but additionally has a spacious eating space in Eco Park and some different small espresso retailers in New City.
A tram-shaped tea store, which sells premium manufacturers of Makaibari tea, was arrange in entrance of Metropolis Centre-1 mall at Salt Lake within the early 2000s as a part of the architectural plan of legendary architect Charles Correa, a spokesperson of Ambuja Neotia group which runs the mall mentioned.