Nairang

Visited: February 2012
Location: Jail Road, Lahore, Pakistan
Ordered: Black coffee

Overall: *****

Food: *****

Services: *****

Atmosphere: *****

Cost: $$$$$

This is a strange little place close to our office. We go to this place for a quick cup of coffee. This is part of art gallery and mostly people supposedly connected to ART are there. Their coffee is fine though.

Hot Spot

Visited: January 2012
Location: Ghaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan
Ordered: Cold coffee

Overall: *****

Food: *****

Services: *****

Atmosphere: *****

Cost: $$$$$

This is a nice place for time out. I think their cold coffee is best in town. We love to go there. This branch of Hot Spot is located in Gaddafi Stadium. They have a different decor with strange kind of wall paintings portraying imaginative film ads. Seating arrangement is also adequate with some seats located outside as well.

For a cup of coffee, this place is expensive.

Bashir Dar-ul-Mahi

Visited: January 2012
Location: Ghaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan
Ordered: A lot of fried fish

Overall: *****

Food: *****

Services: *****

Atmosphere: *****

Cost: $$$$$

This is the real fish shop which used to be on Bahawalpur Road near Mozang Chungi. The only thing which is served in this restaurant is fried fish and it is very tasty. We went to this place on a partly rainy day so atmosphere was great. They have some cramped seating inside as well but open air was great on this day. Cool winter day with some rain drops and nice and fresh deep fried fish. Wow!!! The good thing about this place is that the fish is not over-cooked as is done in most of the other such outlets.

Service is as you can expect from street side restaurants :)

Nando's

Visited: January 2012
Location: MM Alam Road, Lahore, Pakistan
Ordered: Forgot the exact dish name

Overall: *****

Food: *****

Services: *****

Atmosphere: *****

Cost: $$$$$

This restaurant serves Portuguese menu. Their food quality is good. This is a good neat restaurant of international standards. Cost is bit on higher side. Their sausages are great.

Service is not at the level which is expected from this type of restaurants. Atmosphere is good with respect to decor etc but seating is cramped up. 

Everything in this restaurant is Peri Peri so remember that when you go there. 

And last but not least, this is one of the few restaurants which have a home on worldwide web. Click here to visit the site.

Hsin Kuang Chinese Restaurant, Lahore

Visited: January 2012
Location: Zahoor Elahi Road, Lahore, Pakistan
Ordered: Chicken Almond, Chicken Fried Rice

Overall: *****

Food: *****

Services: *****

Atmosphere: *****

Cost: $$$$$

This is the best Chinese Restaurant in Lahore. I think this was established in 1990s and still has the same great taste, may be same waiters too :) This fact and their casual approach to customers is the reason for a lower rating in service. 

With respect to food, this is a great place to be at. There is hardly a table available during peak hours and at dinner time, there is always some wait time.

They need to improve the level of service. The waiters need to be more active and responsive and should be willing to address customer requests.

The atmosphere or decor is good but this needs some change. It has started looking old now. They must bring some innovation into it. Some new look?

Gloria Jeans, Mall of Lahore, Lahore

Visited: January 2012
Location: Mall of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Ordered: Hot chocolate

Overall: *****

Food: *****

Services: *****

Atmosphere: *****

Cost: $$$$$

This branch of Gloria Jeans coffee shop is located on ground floor of Mall of Lahore in Lahore Cantt. We ordered hot chocolate. It was very tasty and all friends liked it very much. 

Environment is very good but they can make it better by providing a view to the mall as well. Currently, it is like sitting in the corridor.

Food Street, Fort Road, Lahore

Visited: January 2012
Location: Fort Road, Lahore, Pakistan
Ordered: Chicken tikka, Chick seekh kabab, Fish tikka

Overall: *****

Food: *****
Services: *****

Atmosphere: *****

Cost: $$$$$

Overall it was a disappointing experience. First of all, it is in 'that' part of the city where people really don't want to go. I am not sure what is the intended audience of this food street. The one in Gawalmandi (closed now) was a great experience and foreign visitors also went there to dine out. This one is really on the other side of the city and hard to reach driving our way through crowded Bhaatti gate area.

Anyway, there is too little space and it was crowded. Hard to find a table. One has to shoulder sniff on guests who are finishing off their food, hence giving an uncomfortable feeling to both. 

So, finally we were able to find a table after about an hour. During the wait time, we tried to go to Cuckoo's but they said they are also full and are accepting guests by appointment only (so they showed they are not part of this food street :-))

Service is poor. Actually poorer than one would expect at such a place. We had to call waiter multiple times to get menu card which was really a photocopy and he had just 1 copy which he was giving out to guests.

Food, yes this was the best part but still lacked the traditional street side touch of Lahore.

And by the time we started enjoying food or may be the environment as well, we saw people around our table waiting for us to get off so that they can sit in :)