Last night I got a chance to dine at the newly opened Copper Kettle at Gulshan-e-Iqbal. The place is located between National Stadium and Expo Center. The seating capacity was ample and atmosphere was nice. However, the quality of food and service left a lot to be desired.
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Hollywood Grill is a restaurant quite prominently located on Sea View opposite McDonald’s and right next to D-Mart. I personally have been passing by this place for sometime never ending up to land for dinner there sometime, today I made it a point to try this yet unexplored eatery on my list.
The name Hollywood Grill brings memories of Planet Hollywood and its ambiance, this definitely lacked the rock-your-body experience of Planet Hollywood but presented itself quite well. It is located on the first floor literally on top of D-Mart. A short staircase leads to upstairs or for the perpetually lazy Pakistani crowd an elevator awaits you to briskly swing you a few feet into the air.
The Maitre’d greeted us with a smile and quickly escorted to our spacious table, there was ample location in the restaurant to seat over a 100 guests and the ambiance classy with good music. The menu was interesting to read as all the dishes were named after a Hollywood Movie or one of its megastars, anywhere from Angelina Jolie to Brad Pitt you could scrumptiously enjoy. Reading the names and correlating them with a Chicken Burger or a Tenderloin Steak was quite a funny twist. But a glance down the price list had you feeling for your wallet, steaks hovered around Rs 800 - Rs 1100 while burgers hovered around an average Rs. 500.
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All the Karachiites who’ve lived in Saudi Arabia, specially in Jeddah, the opening of Al-Baik in North Nazimabad on 23rd February was the most exciting news of the year. The franchise was inaugurated by Mr Mustafa Kamal himself.
A day later, the excitement had died down after a lot of people have claimed that it is fake. One particular girl form my class who visited yesterday, was so furious that she wanted to sue the place. I don’t think you can do that in Pakistan. The fact that her phone got stolen just when she was leaving the place didn’t help either.
Has anyone else been there yet? How would you rate the place?
Yet another one of the famous Burns Road food joints making their way out in the city, Karachi Foods has opened up an outlet on Main Sh-e-Faisal, just across from nursery. What sets them apart is that they’ve done it in style. The new place is beautifully decorated, with soft coloring, well placed lights, lots of airconditioners and paintings, they’ve tried (and succeeded to quite some extent) to follow in the footsteps of BarBQ Tonight. The seating arrangement is a bit crowded, but comfortableeven though they have wooden chairs.
On to the main product, the food. True to their roots, Karachi food still reserves its burns road taste here as well. The menu is a bit limited, with Biryani, Haleem, Karahi, Boneless handi, and daal chawwal for the vegetarians. But its heavenly and makes for a very good lunch for us poor souls working at Sh-e-Faisal.
An interesting aspect of this place, which i think differs from many other food joints in karachi, is the priority they give to you for serving. It’ll take them ages to take your order and to bring you the bill. They even forget cold drinks at times. But your food will almost always arrive on time and sufficiently warm too.
The only down side to this place is, that it gets crowded during lunch, being the only decent dine out place for us here. But well worth it.
Kowloon is an old Chinese restaurant, I have been visiting this place since I was a kid, around fifteen years back this place served the best Chinese food in Karachi and my visit to this restaurant a few days back proved that nothing besides the pricing in the menu has changed in so many years.
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After much pondering and deliberation a friend and myself, decided to investigate this bastion of oceanic cuisine. Having been bombarded with advertising about the freshness of the various varieties of sea food. One felt it curious what all the fuss was about.
Situated in phase 2, defense, karachi. The entrance contained a fish market annexe, filled with fish tanks and a fish display on ice. We took this as a positive omen. The fish at least would be fresh! We were seated in the basement, which seem to have blue lighting for some reason , not the best set up for underground establishment. However, the icing on the cake were the casio keyboards being played by the, what can be described as hobby musician. Off course, the wall mounted plasma tv was simply lovely!!
Menu arrived in a wonderful shaadi album garb. We ordered, jumbo sesame prawns and prawn rolls. Unfortunately the rolls were soggy. As a main course, Rock lobster thermidor, ( one of the few places in town, selling rock lobster, so I was particularly looking forward to it), crab fried rice and steamed grouper in Soya sauce. The food was presented well, however, the lobster contained tinned mushrooms as opposed to fresh, surprising as we’re in the middle of mushroom season, this was rather puzzling.
The cheese was rather low quality, causing it to become reminiscent of something you scrape of your shoe. Fried rice, soggy and over peppered, also contained low quality Soya sauce. Fish was a complete disaster, as it has gone off, the stench was almost unbearable. Once again a narrowly avoided food poisoning! In conclusion, an experience not to be repeated.
