Beauty Boarding, Hotel and restaurant in Bangla Bazaar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Beauty Boarding is a two-story building in the Bangla Bazaar area of Dhaka, built around an open central courtyard. Long verandas run along the rooms and give the structure its recognizable layout.

The building was the home of zamindar Sudhir Chandra Das and, before the 1947 Partition, housed the office of the newspaper Sonar Bangla, which printed Shamsur Rahman's first poem. In 1949 the brothers Prahlad Chandra Saha and Nalini Mohan Saha rented it and opened Beauty Boarding, named after Nalini's eldest daughter, Beauty. On 28 March 1971, 17 people including Prahlad Chandra Saha were killed here by the Pakistani army; in 1972 Prahlad's widow Pratibha Saha reopened it with her sons Samar and Tarak.

It served as a gathering place where Bengali writers and poets met to discuss and create their work over tea. This literary tradition shaped the building as a center for artistic exchange in the city.

Beauty Boarding stands at 1 Sri Shyamsundar Das Lane in Bangla Bazar, the book-publishing and stationery wholesale quarter of Old Dhaka. The two-storey house with its open courtyard and long verandas is a short rickshaw ride from Sadarghat and Gulistan. The dining room stays busy with regulars from the book market, so come outside peak lunch hours for a table.

On 28 March 1971, Pakistani army troops killed Prahlad Chandra Saha and sixteen others at Beauty Boarding. After independence, his widow Pratibha Saha reopened the restaurant in 1972 with her sons Samar and Tarak Saha, and diners still come for the food.