Kolkata on a roll

This take away joint is good news for those who crave authentic Kolkata style rolls

If you are a Bengali living in our fair city, bemoaning the lack of street food snacking culture here, might be a given. While tiffin is common, it does not really qualify as delicious, spicy, hot and wicked street food.

Filling that gap is Pik & Wrap, a Kolkata rolls and biryani take away joint in RT Nagar with a branch in Frazer Town. We visited the branch located on Mosque Road one evening.


Double Egg Double Mutton Roll

The menu reads every Bengali's favourite street food with Fish Fry, Mughlai Paratha, Rolls, Cutlets and mains like Chicken and Mutton Biryani and the Kolkata Mughlai speciality Chicken or Mutton Chap. There is a regular vegetarian and non vegetarian menu here too, but it's quite passable.

The rolls come in options of without egg, with single egg and a double egg variety and you can also top off your rolls with double the amounts of chicken, meat or veggies. We asked for a Egg Double Mutton Tikka Roll, but it was over by the time we reached the Frazer Town branch.

We settled instead for the Double Double Egg Mutton Roll (R 90) and an Egg Chicken Roll (R 50). The mutton roll was a jumbo-sized concoction with a crisp flaky paratha, topped with eggs and stuffed with a spicy mutton mince, ketchup and chilli sauce, and garnished with lots of onions and green chillies.

The roll was authentic to taste and the flavours were heightened with the addition of extra lime. If you are not a sauce lover, you can ask them not to pour any.
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The mince was spicy and sweet and the onions added a crunch to the flavours and the green chillies a bite. The chicken roll was chunks of chicken grilled in the tandoor and then stuffed into the same flaky paratha with onions and green chillies.
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We found a ketchup overdose in our chicken roll making it a tad sweet, which had to be compensated with some lime.

While waiting for our main course which we planned to take away, (you can eat it in your car too), we asked for our favourite Bengali snacks like Mughlai Paratha, Fish Fry, etc.
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But nothing was available on that day since the joint functions mostly on order basis because of it having opened shop just recently. The RT Nagar branch serves up everything including Kolkata style Chinese.

Mutton Biryani (R 120) served with Chicken Chap (R 100) was our dinner. While the biryani reminded us of Kolkata, the Chap was disappointing.

Chap, a Bengali dish with Mughal roots is made out of chicken or meat made in curd, ginger, garlic and chillies and cooked with mustard oil till the spices literally go into the flesh. The Chicken Chap here tasted ordinary with red food colouring and thick gravy tasting like Chicken Tikka Masala.
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The biryani however saved the day with long, fragrant grains of saffron tinged and white rice coming together perfectly with mutton cooked till tender and the signature boiled egg and potato soaked up with flavours of the meat and rice.

Though Pik & Wrap is only willing to deliver within three kms of its area, we suggest you stop by and pick up your rolls as the eatery will keep them ready for you on order.

At Pik & Wrap, 8/1, M.M. Cross, Mosque Road, Opp. Casio Gift Palace, Frazer Town and RT Nagar Main Road,
80 Feet Road, Opp. IBP Petrol
Bunk
Call 32019850/9845259914
Meal for Two R 450
Pik& Wrap didn't know we were there. The Guide reviews anonymously and pays for meals.