Kolkata Food Walk – Paramount Sherbet and Syrup

Paramount Sherbet and Syrup is a 97 yrs old heritage sherbet shop in Kolkata.

Previously it was known as paradise and situated at 1/a Bankim srt Shifted to college st boi para near mahabodhi society on 1936

Marbel top table,narrow benches,glass frames,deer torsos grace the interior that invariable associate with tradition, heritage, nostalgia at the very entrance there is a notice board pasted with paper cuttings that talked about paramount Walls lined with photos of Netaji Subhas chandra bose, Rabindranath Tagore, Acharya Prafulla ch Roy and so on.

This was a meeting point of swadesi nationalists like Netaji, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Tarashankar Bandopadhy, film personalities like Satyajit Ray, Uttam kumar, Suchitra Sen. Visit from Bolly world people is still in trend Most popular is daber shorbot….a sherbet made of tender coconut,ice syrup and pulp of coconut give a sip and u would know why paramount is paramount.
The courtsey of recipe goes to Paramount’s founder Sri Niharranjan Majumder and Acharya Prafulla ch Roy the great scientist New addition is,passion fruit and tamarind.