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This is a lovely restaurant located in Almas tower in JLT where I was invited to try out the food. Of all the restaurants in JLT that I've been to in JLT, this perhaps would be the most upmarket one that I've come across (except for those inside a hotel).  I was pleasantly surprised to see the ambience here. They have seating indoors as well as outdoors - both of them having a smoking area where they serve shisha.  Initially when we entered, we didn't see any staff around who could attend to us, and that wasn't a very good first impression.  We started with some lovely soups. The seafood soup had a good amount of sea-food in it, and the broth tasted good too.  The chicken noodle soup was flavourful, and I totally enjoyed the minced chicken in this along with the noddles inside.  The Greek salad was fresh, and I loved the big slice of feta cheese in it.  The other appetiser that surpassed my expectations was the crab gratin . The crab...

Was looking out for vegetarian places to go and came across this one online so decided to check it out.  The photos of the ambience looked interesting and it actually was this way in reality. It is a nice decor which gives it a colourful and contemporary feel. We started with a portion of masala papad.  They also give complimentary fried papads before your meal. We jumped in to the mains directly.  We had the sev tamatar ki sabji which is a famous dish in western India. The one served here wasn't exactly as expected. The sev was a bit thinner than what is used. The taste wasn't bad though.  The other main dish was dum aloo banarasi . The potato is stuffed with paneer inside and is prepared in an orange gravy. It had a burst of flavours, but was a bit tangy than expected.  We had roomali roti, and phulkas along with this, and ended our meal with a jeera rice.  The ambience and food is good enough, and though I did expect a bit better, I...

This is a nice Pakistani restaurant located in JLT, and they invited me to try out their food. The ambience is nice and it was better than what I usually see in the JLT area. We started with some refreshing sakanjabeen (lemondae) before the food arrived. For the appetisers, we had the Lahori fish . It was soft and was fried with a nice masala to it. The other starter recommended by them was the kurkure bhindi . I've usually had this as just fried bhindi but this prepared along with some curd which came as a surprise. It tasted really good although a bit different that what I had expected. For the kebabs, we had the mutton seekh kebab . This was just about average. It could have been a bit softer and had a little more flavour to it. The chicken boti too wasn't something I relished. It wasn't too soft, and the flavour hadn't seeped in well. The chicken achari handi was really good. It had an orange gravy that had a lovely flavour to it. We ...

If you love delicious burgers and are willing to let go off your diet, then this is the place to go.  The place has a casual and rustic look and the location is great too.  They have some interesting burgers and I wasted them all. I finally settled for the Cuban burger . This is a new addition to their menu. The burger uses prime meat and has smoked brisket in it. The soft smokey flavour of the meat will definitely make your mouth water. The burger also has smoked Swiss cheese, turkey ham, chimmichurri sauce, and Cuban mustard sauce. You want to go have it already, don't you? All burgers also come with a side of fries (regular / sweet potato). There are various wings too, and we tried the spicy Korean bbq wings . The wings were juicy and flavourful; topped with the sweet and spicy bbq sauce, sesame seeds, and served with their buttermilk dressing on the side. Definitely recommend trying these.  We then had the atomic shrimp which is similar to dynamite sh...

We were looking for a good Indian restaurant to go to that has Vegan options. My folks had recently started exploring Veganism (though have always been vegetarian) and wanted to go to a restaurant that caters to this dietary restriction. The restaurant has some vegan options and some other vegetarian dishes that can be made vegan on request.  Most of the below dishes are vegan or can be made vegan on request. We called the chef and he suggested us some dishes based on our preferences. They got us some papads to munch on with an assortment of delicious chutneys / dips.  After this, there was a palate cleanser called the vegetarian Egg Yolk. It only looked like a yolk but was actually a mango liquid inside a gelatinous ball that bursts in your mouth. For our soup, we had the tomato and basmati shorba . It had some pandan leaves in it that gave a nice flavour, and there was murmura (rice puffs) on which they poured the tomato broth. It was tangy, hot, and a bit spicy...