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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 28 specialty shops
Best specialty shops in Kolkata
The 10 most notable specialty shops in Kolkata, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Tip Top Plastic Samir
Gr Floor, Balloon gali, 14, Pollock St
641 m from B.B.D Bag railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.358, percentile 100 of 28
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2
Hearing Plus - Hearing AID Center Kolkata
96, Charu Chandra Place East, Near Tollygunge Railway Station
26 m from Tollygunge railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.323, percentile 96.3 of 28
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3
Rockwell Pneumatic
81G, Bechu Chatterjee Street
778 m from Mahatma Gandhi Road metro station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.253, percentile 92.59 of 28
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4
Technopolis Dealcom Private Limited
Bharat Bhawan, 3 Chittaranjan Avenue, Room B7
100 m from Chandni Chowk metro station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.247, percentile 88.89 of 28
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5
Electrocare Services
3, Suren Tagore Road
747 m from Ballygunge Junction railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.235, percentile 85.19 of 28
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6
Health Plus Diagnostic Centre
C-5, Chalantika, Garia Station Road
454 m from Kavi Nazrul metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.177, percentile 81.48 of 28
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7
Prasad Diagnostic Centre
27/7, Umakanth Sen Lane, Gangulipara, Paikpara
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.118, percentile 77.78 of 28
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8
Lakhotia Medical Centre
Grand Trunk Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.086, percentile 74.07 of 28
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9
Grace Care
6A, Janak Road
243 m from Kalighat metro station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.980, percentile 70.37 of 28
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10
Alpha Medicals
Moulana Abul Kalam Azad Road
704 m from Howrah Goods railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.961, percentile 66.67 of 28
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).