Roar-worthy Bengali kitchen · Est. Dhaka

Bold flavors,
fierce hospitality.

Bagher Bites is a wild kitchen — slow-cooked biryanis, smoke-kissed kebabs, and bright jungle greens, plated with the patience of a tiger stalking dinner.

14

Years cooking

600+

Daily covers

Spice levels

Steaming pot of biryani being uncovered
slow
cooked
always
Live fire kitchen
Kacchi BiryaniSmoke KebabsJungle GreensTehariShorshe IlishBhuna KhichuriReshmi Roast
Kacchi BiryaniSmoke KebabsJungle GreensTehariShorshe IlishBhuna KhichuriReshmi Roast

From the den

Three plates we’d hunt for.

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Kacchi BiryaniMutton

Kacchi Biryani

Mutton · saffron · slow fire

Long-grain basmati layered with marinated mutton and aromatics, sealed under dough and coaxed for hours over a low flame.

Smoke Kebab PlatterCharcoal

Smoke Kebab Platter

Charcoal · cumin · yogurt

Hand-pounded chapli, seekh, and reshmi kebabs kissed by mango-wood smoke. Served with green chutney and burnt-onion salad.

Jungle Greens BowlForaged

Jungle Greens Bowl

Foraged · seasonal · bright

A bowl of wilted shaak — pumpkin leaves, helencha, kalmi — finished with mustard oil, panch phoron, and a five-spice crunch.

A jungle kitchen at golden hour

“Cook with patience, plate with pride.”

— Naani, est. 1962

Our story

From a single charcoal stove
to a whole jungle on a plate.

Bagher Bites started in a Banani alley with one borrowed handi and a stubborn belief that biryani is worth waiting for. We named the place Bagher — Bengali for tiger — because that’s how the spice should hit: bold, unhurried, unforgettable.

Today our kitchen runs on the same principle. Live fire. Foraged greens from delta farms. Hand-ground masalas every dawn. No shortcuts, no ghost kitchens, no apologies for being a little wild.

What’s in our pot

Four things we won’t cut corners on.

Heritage recipes

Cooked the way our grandmothers taught us — bone broths, hand-ground masalas, and patience as the secret ingredient.

Wild + foraged

We source greens, river fish, and seasonal produce from small farms across the delta. If it isn’t in season, it isn’t on the menu.

Live fire kitchen

Charcoal sigri, brick tandoors, and copper handi — the Bagher kitchen smells like the village before it smells like dinner.

No shortcuts

No artificial colors, no MSG, no boxed pastes. Just stone-cold mortar work, long simmers, and bold seasoning.

Wild side of the menu

A jungle on every plate.

Pumpkin shoots, helencha, kachu paata, kalmi shaak — the leafy greens of rural Bangladesh that supermarkets forgot. We work with eight delta farms to keep them on your table, week after week.

  • Pumpkin shoots
  • Helencha
  • Kalmi
  • Lal shaak
  • Kachu paata
  • Note shaak
Bunches of fresh leafy greens

Find the den

Pull up a stool. The fire’s already going.

Address
Road 11, BananiDhaka 1213
Hours
Daily12pm – 11pm
Phone
+880 1700 000 000
Email
hello@bagherbites.com
Warmly lit dining room