Continental 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Secret Recipe Café – Striving not to remain a Secret

    Secret Recipe is a Malaysian restaurant franchise that is holding steady in spite of the fact that is located on a jinxed boulevard in Khayaban-e-Shahbaz. The jinx seems to only work on restaurants and so far it’s victims have been U&Me café and the Bread...

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  • Black & White -Studio Cafe

    Studio Cafe – New Kid on the DHA Block

    The litmus test for gauging the sustainability of a new restaurant is observing whether the place is thronging with customers or not at the very outset. Studio Café passes this test comfortably. It’s another thing that the reason Studio Café has a lot of people...

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  • Grilled Prawns-Deli

    Deli Restaurant – Needs To Fight Hard

    Deli has been around for quite some time but hasn’t really caught the fancy of the Zamzama hopping eataholics. One reason could be its obscure location, nestled between two non-descript shops in an equally non-descript by-lane of Zamzama. They say the best location to open...

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  • Largess – the upscale restaurant of yore

    Largess restaurant has been around in the Karachi foodscape for what seems like eternity. It is your conventional Pakistani restaurant of the 80s era where you could find pretty much anything to eat under one roof. From Pakistani to Chinese to American steaks, you name...

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