Cuisine Archive

  • Village Iftar Deal

    This is the first Village Restaurant opposite Avari Towers and not the Salt n Pepper Village on Seaview that most people are familiar with. It has been around for more than four decades, one of the famous restaurants of the yore. It opened up on...

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  • Diner’s Iftar Deal

    Diner’s is one of the new breed of upscale restaurants that are dotted on the DHA landscape away from the Zamzama crowd, owned by the couple who run Sawasdee nearby. Located smack in the middle of the Khayaban-e-Shahbaz commercial area, we had been receiving mixed reviews...

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  • Fuchsia’s Iftar Deal

    Fuchsia is one of the handful restaurants in Karachi offering Thai cuisine. Baan Thai was probably the first one who brought this cuisine to this coastal city and as such still retains the first mover advantage. Fuchsia has been around for quite some time now...

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  • Gun Smoke Karachi

    Gun Smoke Steaks & Burgers

    Gun Smoke continues to provide stiff competition to its competitors Arizona Grill and Copper Kettle with its wide array of burgers and steaks. And Gun Smoke’s reputation has become bigger than the actual product behind the brand, which is precisely what brands are created for –...

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  • Roasters Burgers UNcut

    Roasters’ Burgers are the biggest you’ll ever see in this part of the world. You’ll notice these humungous objects from far off as the waiter approaches with them. It doesn’t get bigger than this. And if you can’t satiate your appetite with one of these,...

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  • Chicken Cottage- Franchising gone Sour

    Chicken Cottage is probably one of the worst foreign franchises ever to hit the Pakistani shores. Hailing from the English shores, it maybe a popular brand at home but here the way it is being handled and the standard of its competitors, there’s no way...

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  • BBQ Platter -Copper Kettle

    The Copper Kettle on Stadium Road

    Copper Kettle is the father of the ‘cafesque’ restaurant category in Karachi’s foodscape. Pre-Copper Kettle, Chinese restaurants ruled the roost followed by a few Usmania-style restaurants. With the advent of Copper Kettle, the whole scenario underwent a paradigm shift. With competition in this category heating up,...

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  • Chaman Ice Cream Parlor

    Lahore, akin to Karachi, is not well known for upscale ice cream parlors. Maybe the packaged ice cream brands have done a remarkable job of keeping the consumer demand for the category satiated, maybe the Pakistani consumer doesn’t fancy ice cream as much as he...

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  • Roasters Coffee House & Grill- Riding High

    Roasters started out as a coffee house but then popular demand by the regular clientele forced the owner Nadeem Raja to introduce main entrées into the foray, as revealed by him to Mahmood Nanji on the program Success Stories. With time, Roasters has morphed into a...

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  • Qasr-Al-Nakheel – The great Arabic Hype

    Qasr-Al-Nakheel is a very shrewd restaurant simply for advertising regularly in Jang. And the ad it has positioned in Jang gives an impression of a large restaurant. In reality it’s just one of the small café-esque joints on the Boating Basin food strip, the one...

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