Kolapata is a Bangladeshi restaurant at 222 Whitechapel Road. Its extensive menu brings regional comfort food, fragrant rice dishes, grills and freshwater fish together in a casual setting for lunch, dinner and family gatherings. Traditional ingredients and generous portions give diners many ways to build a meal around familiar favourites or less commonly encountered Bangladeshi specialities.
Starters include chatpoti with white peas, egg, green chilli and tamarind, alongside haleem made with lentils and lamb. The grill prepares chicken, lamb seekh kebab, beef chap and a mixed selection with lamb chop, chicken tikka and quarter chicken. A full grilled chicken arrives with naan, salad and the restaurant’s own dressing for a substantial shared centrepiece.
Special rice dishes include morogh polao with roast chicken and fine kalijira rice, plus bhuna khechuri combining beef, basmati rice and several lentils. Kachi biryani cooks marinated lamb, potato, rice and spices slowly inside a sealed pot, preserving fragrance and moisture. Traditional chicken, lamb, prawn and vegetable biryanis are served with vegetable curry or tarka dal.
Freshwater fish is a defining part of the menu through rohu curry, mustard hilsa, fried hilsa, whole rupchanda and king prawns cooked with onion and green chilli. Beef bhuna, kala beef, lamb shatkora and a broad range of chicken curries add further depth. Potato, aubergine, egg, lentil, dried fish and tomato bhortas bring mustard oil, chilli and herbs to the table in concentrated form.
Address: 222 Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel, London E1 1BJ, United Kingdom
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