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Zaiqa, 858 North Orleans, is a gritty, cafeteria-style Pakistani joint with character to spare. Zaiqa attracts the cab-driving crowd, which means all men, so if you go at the lunch rush it’s like stumbling into a Pakistani frat party. Lots of smoking and yelling. In the evening the lights get low, the music softens–well, it [...]

Chapli means “slipper” in Pakistan. Chapli kebabs are popular on the Indian-Pakistani border. The squarish ground-meat patties are called slipper kebabs because they’re supposed to resemble the soles of sandals. They’re commonly made with ground lamb there, and with ground beef in Pakistani communities in the United States. Hunter’s beef is a Pakistani imitation of [...]

The advent of a London-style restaurant serving local food reflects the growing prosperity of Pakistan’s urban middle and upper classes, as well as a more cosmopolitan outlook brought partly by returning Pakistani emigres. More and more glass-fronted mobile phone shops and smart restaurants are popping up amid the grime and bustle of the country’s big [...]

With her husband out of town, Janet Constantinou decided on the fly to attend a lunch at the home of a friend’s friend. She walked through the crowd of strangers laughing, talking passionately and gesturing boldly, and found herself before a table of plates brimming with Pakistani curries and rice, and heaps of thin brown [...]

Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) laboratories of Hyderabad have come up with solar dehydrators for increasing dates production, especially in district Khairpur, officials said on Monday. Sindh’s district Khairpur is considered as one of the largest date growing area in Pakistan but the growers have failed to fully utilise the potential of [...]

Arshed’s idea is a not-for-profit enterprise with “food for thought” that offers “coffee, interaction, meals, and tolerance.” Long before our leaders decided to reach out to each other, Arshed’s cafe was serving a refreshing drink of orange and lemon called Bharat-Pak Dosti (“Indo-Pak friendship”). One can also taste “American Democracy” and “Karzai’s Kava” there. I [...]

With its velvety sofas and soft lighting, Pakistan’s first bar looks and feels like it could be in any western city, with prices to match. But instead of glasses of wine or pints of creamy beer, the counter is lined with tubes that dispense a tipple more befitting a good Muslim country: pure oxygen. The [...]

The Punjab Tourism Department has initiated arrangements to set up a restaurant with the ambiance of the Mughal era in the historical building of the Shahi Hamam at Delhi Gate, besides meals, information about the historic Mughal era would also be provided. The department had started restoration work with the cooperation of the federal archaeology [...]

Food streets have become a part of the social culture in metropolitan cities and provide middle class families opportunities to socialise. These new food bazaars offer a variety of traditional and continental dishes at one place at affordable prices besides providing a chance for formal and informal meetings. Going to a food street has become [...]

Renowned Pakistani restaurants set up in the Global Village 2005 will offer a variety of traditional and international cuisine to the visitors of the approaching Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) 2005. Among the restaurants, Ravi Restaurant, Barbeque Delight, Al Ibrahimi Palace and Bundu Khan will represent Pakistan in the food court. The four restaurants, the largest [...]