Shaped by references to Calcutta, its energy and food, Chourangi offers event hire with real refinement, personality, and flavour. You’ll find it just a stone’s throw from Marble Arch, with a gleaming frontage and al fresco tables set out beneath a cream awning. Events at Chourangi come with a menu that champions the lesser seen elements of Calcutta’s cooking traditions, featuring unusual ingredients, techniques and cooking methods.
Inside, Chourangi has the feel of a refined restaurant, typical of the surrounding area. Think soaring ceilings, a large open-plan dining room, and a mixture of comfortable banquette seating and tables with rattan chairs dotted around the room. Hanging on the walls are framed black and white photographs from Calcutta, while the bar is backed by enormous mirrors embossed with gold patterns typical of Bengali culture and the city’s colonial-era clubs.
For events at Chourangi, you’ll find the menu is very well suited, thanks to its sharing-style design. Bar bites include crisp potato strings with mint chutney, smoked chilli poppadum and crackling spinach with roasted almonds. Small plates range from enoki mushroom bhaja and beetroot chop with cashew and mustard, to prawn cutlets served with kasundi mayonnaise and Calcutta-style fish fry using seabass, green chilli and lime.
There’s also a four-course signature set tasting menu, offering starters like prawn cutlets and lotus stem sweet potato chaat, second courses like kasundi paneer tikka and Nizam’s malai tikka, and mains like kosha lamb, daak bungalow chicken curry, grand trunk black dal, and pot-roasted jackfruit served with Calcutta naan and steamed rice. To finish, you might find options like steamed mango curd or warm pistachio milk cake dumplings.
Every event needs drinks to accompany, and at Chourangi - alongside a spice-friendly wine list - you’ll find cocktails which incorporate ingredients like mango, chilli, tamarind, and spices. For instance, you might spot a Fantastic Bombastic mezcal, watermelon and lime number, or the Silent Chilli, which features mint, chilli, gin and apple.