Nothing can beat the comfort and warmth of having a wholesome home-cooked meal. If you live away from home or have lived at some point in life, you know how nothing is missed more than eating ghar ka khana. Eating out daily or cooking food oneself can be tiresome while simultaneously juggling work or studies. The perfect solution for this is tying yourself up with a good tiffin service, so you don't have to worry about your meals every single day. Here are the best affordable tiffin service options for you to explore in Kolkata.
7 Tiffin Services in Kolkata for Home-Cooked Food Away from Home
F4U - Food For U
Food for U in Kolkata provides budget-friendly meal options for every occasion. Whether you're a PG student wanting food to be delivered right to your doorstep or a company hosting a corporate event, they will customise your needs seamlessly. A few of their services include function and party catering, bulk food delivery, pure veg bhog delivery, corporate catering and even travel food boxes for trains and flights! They maintain utmost hygiene while cooking and delivering food. Daily meals include rice, dal and salad as standard, and either two vegetarian dishes or a chicken curry. They also specialise in Bengali and continental breakfast platters on special orders.
Price: INR 130 onwards per meal
Lopa’s Kitchen
If you're in Kolkata and craving a hearty Bengali meal, get in touch with home chef Lopa Chatterjee. Being a Bengali, she knows all the secret recipes for making authentic Bengali dishes like Chicken Kosha, Mutton Dakbunglow, Fish Fry, Moong Dal, Egg Devil, Jhiri Jhiri Aloo Bhaja and Fish Curry. She even caters to her specially curated à-la-carte menu, including dishes like Gondhoraj Chicken, Bekti Paturi, Chittol Muitha, Bagda Chingrir Malaikari, Chhanar Dalna, Doi Potol and Ilish Bhapa.
Price: INR 200 onwards per meal
Julie's Kitchen
Run by Julie Arshad, Julie's Kitchen is a team of homemakers (aka inbuilt chefs) who provide nutritious home-cooked meals. Their menu is carefully handpicked to cater to all your cravings. Serving both veg and non-veg meals, they have parathas, chole, rajma, chicken curry, thalis, mutton curry, fish thali, and so much more! They also do catering for events and gatherings, so you can get in touch with them for bulk orders.
Price: INR 105 onwards per thali
Gol Roti Tiffin Services
Gol Roti has been in the tiffin service business in Kolkata since 2010. They have monthly subscription plans for students going to school or college, working professionals, and single-day takeouts. The school tiffin monthly plan starts from INR 1050, while the office monthly plan starts at INR 2000 per month. They also have categories like daily tiffins, royalty tiffins, and rajwaada tiffins, all differing in terms of menu items and quantity. The best part? They provide free delivery.
Price: INR 130 onwards per thali
Sri Arya Tiffin Service
Sri Arya Tiffin Service is known to be the best home-cooked vegetarian tiffin service in Salt Lake City. Their packages even include sides like papad and freshly made pickles. Weekly specials include dishes like chole bhature and chilra. Every thali includes roti, rice, dal, one potato-based curry, and another green vegetable curry. We love that they are very reasonable and have generous portions. However, monthly advance payment is required.
Price: INR 119 onwards per thali
Epikyoor
Established by Harsh Baid and Darshana Baid in 2020, Epikyoor is a pure vegetarian cloud kitchen in Kolkata. You can place orders with them via Zomato or their social media handles. Their focus is on delivering fresh, delicious, and hygienic vegetables and Jain food. They have also partnered with NGOs to reduce food wastage. They provide tiffin services and small party orders. Their thali menu starts with a basic thali and goes up to an economic thali, an executive thali, and a special Rajasthani thali.
Price: INR 99 onwards per thali
FoodRack By Ambrish
If you're into fresh, protein-rich, and nutritious vegetarian meals, hook yourself up with home chef Ambrish Damani's food delivery services. His breakfast meals include options like warm poha, upma or idli sambar, cereal with milk, chhena and cut fruits, while lunch and dinner meals are thali-style with options including two types of vegetables, different types of dal or kadhi, rice, raita, and one sweet dish such as rasgulla, gulab jamun, sandesh, etc. For the calorie counters, you can opt for options like makhana bhel, pasta salad, khandvi chaat and more on different days. If you're ordering for lunch, you need to order by 9 AM in the morning and for dinner by 2 PM the same day.
Price: INR 250 onwards per meal