About Copperpot Namkeen House

A small pure-veg snack shop and bakery on Tamarind Lane near South Kolkata, Kolkata, with a marble counter, shelves to the ceiling, and its own name on the jars.

Copperpot is family-run. The shop makes the house namkeens, the honey dry-fruit cake, the jamun chips and the cakes to order, and stocks the cookies, crackers and chips that sit alongside them. The label on the jar says what the shop believes: the taste of tradition.

It shares a wall with Argent Lane Gifting, the silver-plated gift shop next door, which is run by the same family. The two shops together cover most of what a Kolkata visit calls for: the gift and the thing to eat with it.

The Copperpot Namkeen House shopfront on Tamarind Lane: gold lettering reading Copperpot Namkeen House, The Taste of Tradition, above a lit glass front and the marble counter inside — The shopfront on Tamarind Lane, lit for the evening.

Inside

The shop's narrow aisle: white marble floor, glass shelves of snacks on both sides, crimson rails and track lights overhead — The aisle, marble underfoot.

Jars of namkeen on the marble counter — Jars on the marble counter.

A glass shelf holding Copperpot jars, packets of khakhra and small jars of mixes — The jar shelf.

Directions and hours See the namkeens