Wallah Walla

WALLA !

Heard a lot about this place and it’s New Yorker shawarma, well I went there on an empty stomach, placed my order and sat there waiting for my order.

It took them 20 to 25 minutes to serve the meal and that also not in one go.

They have an open kitchen, so you get to see it all when you are placing your order while standing at the counter or while you are seated, which is alright..but it’s noisy in there, you get to hear a lot of katakat sound which is loud and disturbing as I prefer my food in a calm environment.

The food is ok in a sense that it’s just another shawarma place that you don’t go to every week, even though I’m a shawarma person but honestly it was average.

The service is slow, there is no sanitizer or napkins or tissues on the table, you have to ask for a tissue only then it shall be served and the worst thing about this place is that they don’t have any wash basin or a wash room for customers. 

Guys a wash basin is a must !

Jardin Karachi

New talk of the town, 2 food bloggers spoke very high about the Jardin restaurant, that it’s fine dining & a high end restaurant, but honestly the food was average, we were 2 but we ordered 3 main dishes from the menu.

The ambiance is good, new places are usually cleaner and brighter so was this place, we went around 7 pm on a Sunday evening, the place was almost empty, a group of 4-5 was there in a corner.

As we stepped inside one of the person at the reception greeted me very politely and asked for the number of people, responded ‘table for 2 & non smoking’ the other server at the reception asked if we have a reservation, to that I just looked around if they were all packed & that’s when I noticed it’s all empty, before I would say anything the first person asked us to follow us to the non smoking section and choose a table of our choice.

Well food was served quick, service was really good, the place smelled really fresh and good, unlike restaurants which are filled with multiple aromas of food, cool and calm environment, the music play list was tasteful but the food was average.

Nothing special about the food, tasted exactly like the most restaurants in Karachi, I wouldn’t pay another visit for food or for ambiance as better food options are still available around and as far as ambiance is concerned it couldn’t dominate that much on me.

*Jardin

is a French word for Garden