City’s largest food court will be in South City

FoodTalk, the 30K sq ft food court in the South City Mall on Anwar Shah Road will be the largest in the city when it inaugurates in less than a week from today on Christmas.

But FoodTalk is not alone. South City Mall is slated to have quite a few firsts. For example, both the 83,000 sq ft Shoppers’ Stop and 72,000 sq ft Spencer’s hypermart will be the respective companies’ largest outlets in the country. Not far behind will be yet another largest, the 71,000 sq ft pantaloons.

Splurging on money will not be a problem at the giant mall complex, for the other hot destination will surely be the Fame’s 6-screen multiplex.

The total affair at the Anwar Shah Road destination defies imagination by Kolkata’s present standards. There will be mammoth footfalls, and equally massive vehicular traffic, resulting not only from the mall but from the residential complex as well.

Pity the road outside the complex will prove incapable to cater to the volume of traffic that will be generated. As usual the government hasn’t woken up to the likely grim reality waiting to unfold soon that has the ability to completely choke the crossing at the Jadavpur Police Station.

This will have cascading effect on either side of Gariahat Road (South) up to 8B bus-stand and the northern end of the Dhakuria bridge respectively. The people to suffer most will be the residents of the adjoining areas and those who dare pass through the place during office hours.

Even as all of these happen unhurriedly but surely, and the South City Mall, one of the city’s 2007 promises, start delivering the full blast of its potential, I’m reasonably sure that the island shaped 3rd level FoodTalk will emerge as one of the hottest destinations in south Kolkata.

If any doubt, just perish it!

[Collated from Dec 18 The Telegraph article]