Beauty Boarding
বিউটি বোর্ডিং
A literary gathering spot in old Dhaka since 1949, serving traditional river-fish home meals on steel plates, with mustard hilsa as the highlight.
Beauty Boarding is on Shirishdas Lane in Banglabazar, the book market area. The Saha brothers opened it in 1949. It became a favorite meeting place for poets and writers and was damaged during the 1971 war. The small dining room seats only about a dozen people and still uses steel plates and bowls. Lunch and dinner feature rice with several river fish curries, lentil soup and bhortas. The most famous dish is mustard hilsa. Prices are very low and the setting is simple, and you can also visit the courtyard of the old house. It is reached from the old city by rickshaw.
Opening hours
About 7:00 am–11:00 pm; fish meals served at lunch and dinner
Nearby sights
- Sadarghat
- Shankhari Bazar
- Ahsan Manzil
- Armenian Church of the Holy Resurrection
- Star Mosque
- Rose Garden Palace
- Bara Katra
- Hussaini Dalan