Girish Chandra Dey & Nakur Chandra Nandy

This is a very old condiment / sweet shop of Kolkata. The legacy goes beyond 170 years. They are specialist of making dry sweets. Highly recommended sweets to get from here - Gud Monohora, any variation of Jolbhora Sandesh, Any variation of normal Sandesh and Malai Singara. Malai Singara can be somewhat rich for some people.

The sweets are actually very good but because of the hype, the pricing is very high compared to other well known sweet shops.

One of the most prestigious shops in Kolkata situated just opposite to Hedua Park in Bidhan Sarani. This age old shop serving sweets since 18th century still retains the taste and variety at a higher price. Cards are accepted for paymemt but the crowd here is an absolute mess. The authority needs to handle crowd management as quarreling in queue is an everyday affair. Behaviour of this shop caretakers is also on the rude side but the heritage and tradition subdues it fully. Definitely a must visit sweet shop in Kolkata!

Right opposite hedua park. Near vivekanand road. The sweets are awsome and expensive too but its great. There are lots of other sweet shops in that area too. So enjoy

The best authentic sandesh junction.
One stop for all kinds of sandesh.
The most famous North Kolkata sweet shop

It is my most favourite sweet shop. I have been purchasing sweets from this shop since early sixties. The Jalvara talsans notun gurer is really a delicacy.

Popular Dishes

Butterscotch Sondesh, Malai Sandesh, Malai Roll, Kacha Golla, Gujiya, Ice Cream Sandesh

Very popular sweet shop. Several times i bought some sweets from that shop. Test is good and also quality is good.

Always be prepared to
1. Spend more because the price is higher here
2. Stand & wait no matter which time of the day you come here
3. Staff not even acknowledging you or the time you spend waiting here because another customer is buying sweets worth a million dollars.
4. If you ever are in a hurry & request quick service, you will be shouted at by the shopkeeper.

I had the worst experience with customer service here. It happened few years ago too but I had overlooked it. The saddest part is, in the meantime I had recommended this shop to so many people & brought them so much business. The last time I visited the shop I was treated terribly even after keeping myself, my car, my aged grandmother waiting for an eternity.
Worst part is when I asked is this how customers should be treated, the man lied outright.

If you are a millionaire or your hobby is getting treated badly this is highly recommended.
Otherwise your self respect & money is something that can be valued easily by all the other sweetmeat shops in the area.
Never trusting repeat offenders again.

1. It's reduced only to a brand now, with a photograph of a so called popular hero of bollywood, as if there has never been any "celebrity" in Bengal, who visited this shop. The shop gravely downplays importance of Bengali Icons who have been aplenty, in Calcutta.
2. The sellers use the same unclean hands to pack sandesh in the box, with which they receive, count and return currency notes and coins. Nothing could be more unhygienic than this.
3. The sandeshes have been made to lose their character and identity by the owners of this shop, in the name of artificial and cheap modernization. They mix various flavours in Sandesh, an act that defies the very intrinsic trait of a classical sandesh.
4. There is no organised system of sale of sandesh. If you are a local goon, you enjoy the authority of jumping the queue and you are served first.
5. Most of the times one of the two sellers, is busy packing sandesh for bulk orders and the long queue gets served by a single salesman who serves sandesh and counts money as aforesaid.
6. There are a row of shops down the same lane that serve nearly the same quality of sandesh but they can't flaunt the photo of any bollywood hero, no matter how hopelessly zero these 'heroes' are!
I hope the owners would consider my observations in the right light, remembering that I am one of the greatest fans of this place and so want this place to be flawless.

Very ordinary shop with a limited variety of sweets.

The most shocking is due to their earlier famous name they are charging too much for their sweets.

It's highly overpriced than the quality.

Sweets are goods but not at all outstanding if you compare with the prices.

I never recommend this kind of places wastage of money is guaranteed.

Still if anyone want to try for once they may try but boss it will surely impact your pocket badly.

One of the oldest sweet shops in north Calcutta.quality of sweets are good.go and give a try you'll love it.

One of the most popular and ancient confectioners in Kolkata.every bite of their sweets reminds you of authenticity and heritage of "Kolkata Misti"

For a sweet tooth person this is the place where every cravings for sweets can be satiated. No one can eat just one. Chocolate sandesh tops the list. Jolbhora, kiwi, pineapple, butter scotch etc.etc. All are yummylicious.

Extremely good sweet shop that specialises in sandesh. A heritage of Calcutta, and a must visit for all those who love to eat sandesh.

Old traditional values of Calcutta sweets. In this challenging post pandemic situation they have tried to maintain quality with an affordable price.

Renowned confectioners of North Kolkata since 1844; No doubt, one of the best 'Sandesh' makers of Kolkata. If you have craving for delicious sweets, Girish Chandra Dey and Nakur Chandra Nandy is ready to offer you a variety of traditional sweets of different flavours; More than 60 items of Sandesh is available here including 'Jalbhara', 'Talsash', 'Monohora', 'Korapak', Jafran Sandesh, Green apple, Black forest, Mango, Butterscotch etc.

A must watch place in Kolkata, carrying more than 150 years of Bengali tradition on its back and anyone can feel that nostalgia. Till date, they have no branch anywhere. Perhaps, this thing is for maintaining products quality.
Price little bit higher, but no compromise with quality. Little crowded all the time.

Must visit. Must visit. Must visit. Must visit. Must visit. Must visit. Must visit. Must visit. Must visit.

It's greatness, one of the best confectioneries in the state. If you are planning to experience the celestial taste of Bengal's sweetmeat, then must visit this place near Hedua park.

Famous names. But it was. Some people make them famous.
There is no hygienic maintain not even in Corona situation. If you go to the place and look around the people's you will think you have came to Sagrada mistanna bhandar or Ramkrishna sweets like that. The moyra not having money to wear cloths.people are eating names. I think price should be less its a unnecessary cost.
Quality just average. Nowadays price make them famous.

Sondesh is too good. The only problem is with the prices. Prices is different from the website, website needs to be updated. Also, the sales person was a little rude! One customer before me gently asked him which sweet should he buy, the salesman annoyingly replied to him, customer wasn't satisfied with his answer!

Quality is maintained properly. Service is quite slow, otherwise everything is alright. Price worthy products. One of the best sweet shop in Kolkata.

The best gulab patti sandesh in Kolkata. A 150 years old shop selling variety of sandesh and still popular and famous for its quality.

Extremely good sweets but very ill mannered staff. It feels like they are doing you a favour by selling their products to you.

অন্যতম সেরা মিষ্টির দোকান । শুধুমাত্র সন্দেশ/ছানার/সরের মিষ্টি পাওয়া যায় । জীবনে এই দোকানের মিষ্টি একবার অন্তত খাবেন ।

Best sweet shop in Kolkata!
Wide variety of sweets available at decent rates. Serves fresh made sweets everyday. Sugar free sweets also available. No dinning space only takeaway provided. They also take bulk order for various functions and special events. It's a must try in Kolkata.

Authentic Bengali sweets for all sweet lovers. A little bit on the pricier side though but the taste justifies the price.

Undoubtedly one of the best sweet shops in the entire kolkata. Taste of the sweets are really awesome. Will highly recommend for the sandesh here. They also provide sweets for weddings also.

Delicious sandesh varieties. Try their jaggery sandesh, and less sweet badaam and kesar sandesh too.

One of the finest sweet shops of Kolkata. Sweets are fresh, wonderfully tasty, lingering for long hours. But it remains very busy during rush hours. Long queue for getting your chance. Don't worry, keep patience. The fruit of patience is sweet.
Nowadays, they are innovating a lot of new items. But their age old originality is Sandesh - Bengal's own sweet.

The shop's ambience might feel pretty low and the prices of the sweets might seem too high, but the quality and the taste of the sweets are just awesome

The bengali sweets here are amazing. The seasonal ones are the best, especially the ones made from jaggery during winter.

If you love sweets then must visit this shop. Variety of sweets. Old shop and maintaing its class dignity of taste.

Their sweets are very tasty and they create innovative types of sweets which are only found in their shop. Overall a good place

Love. Jalbhara is the best of all. And Saurav, Manhara one must try as well. Overall a big collection of sandesh. Must visit for atleast once to taste the tradition with classics and variety. 10star for Jalbhara.

Old is gold. Awesome mouthwatering for sweet lovers. Quality good price bit high. But can sacrifice for real taste.

One of the legendary sweet shops in North Kolkata. Not all the sweets taste awesome but some surely do. Go and try their different varieties of sweet.

A excellent place for the sweet lover. Keeping in mind the taste of 'জলভরা' of সূর্য মোদক of Chandannagar in my opinion taste of জলভরা of Girish Chandra Dey & Nakur Chandra Nandy is the best. It is unparallel. They are specialist for traditional ছানার সন্দেশ। Though now a days they are preparing some chocolate sandesh along with the plain sandesh but as a sweet lover my vote goes to the plain one. Beside জলভরা they prepare other sandesh also all of which are also excellent. So I recommend everyone to have those taste.

This is a must visit shop everyone who's got a of sweettooth.
The varieties available are mind-blowing, tastes that lasts and make you crave for more.

Experience at Girish Chandra is smooth, with experienced people over the counters to ask exactly what is required. Customer friendly, fresh and the aroma of Sandesh floats to the nostrils. Fabulous each time.

Excellent quality sweet with many variety if you eat one then you will like to eat more and more. The taste of the sweets stay in your tounge but staff behaviour is not good. They are always in a hurry.

The best sweet shop in Kolkata. May not have the modern glitz but visited by people who actually know good sweet.