Restaurants in Dhaka
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Cofi Ii
One of the current hot spots with younger expats and locals for after-work drinks (non-alcoholic of course), stingy but enjoyable meals, and internet use. Try the chicken cooked in honey. It’s on the second floor of the shopping centre.
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Club Gelato
Club Gelato is a perfect replica of an Italian café, serving posh coffee and every rainbow-coloured flavour of ice cream.
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Spitfire’s Barbeque & Grill
Located in the heart of the diplomatic quarter, the bevy of shiny 4WDs with ambassadorial standards and multi-national logos should tell you something about both the quality and price of the food here. Steaks are the staple, but you can also opt for quail and duck breast (but it would be cheaper to wait until you get back home). The atmosphere is far more relaxed than you’d expect.
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Spaghetti Jazz
An excellent Italian restaurant, just off DIT II Circle, that produces pastas and pizzas stuffed with cheese in just the right places, and covered in tomatoes just where they’re needed. Very popular with expats.
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Gulshan Plaza Restaurant
Cheap and basic workman’s restaurant that has all your Bangladeshi favourites, as well as kebabs and roast chickens – all of which are near enough perfect. The boss is English-speaking.
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El Toro
The dark and cool el Toro is the only Mexican restaurant in Bangladesh, and surely one of the best on the Indian subcontinent. The chunky chicken quesadilla is a Trojan Horse of flavour – it looks benign on the plate but stages a coup in your mouth. They even have cocktails...sort of.
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Dhaba
Come and pretend you’re on a tropical beach in this foliage-covered, beach shack–style restaurant selling what it describes as ‘street food’, but this is civilised street food and very tasty it is too.
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Sung Garden Restaurant
It might be discreet but that hasn’t prevented the well-to-do of Dhaka finding this little Chinese restaurant. The service is attentive and the dishes delectable. Everything about the place is immaculately clean.
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New Café Jheel
If you want to know what Bengali food is supposed to taste like then check out the thick, fiery curries at this bright and clean favourite. Tk 120 will get you a curry, rice and naan bread.
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Kebab-E-Q
Downstairs is like eating in someone’s front room and upstairs is like chowing down in the jungle, but what exactly will you be chowing down? Some memorable Bangladeshi treats.
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Topkapi
This is one of several large and similar ventures on Gulshan Ave whose all-you-can-eat lunch buffets are much less tacky than the venues themselves. Also open for dinner.
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Decent Pastry Shop
A slightly incongruous sight in the den of the old town the Decent Pastry Shop is a towering pillar of calm, sanity, and Western cleanliness and tastes.
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Malancha Restaurant
The many students in this neighbourhood fill their tummies on the cheap and memorable fried chicken and delectable kebabs up for grabs here.
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Khazana
Khazana, next door to Spitfire, is its Indian-cuisine equivalent, though it’s much more of a shirt-and-tie kind of place.
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Santoor
Simply superb Bengali cooking! The higher than normal prices are justified by both the food and the prim-and-proper atmosphere.
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Xian
A popular and refined Chinese restaurant where you’re expected to dress sharp and enjoy the equally smart food.
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Xinxian
Bigger and bolder than Xian, and certainly not the place for an intimate meal, is Xinxian.
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Helvetia
For some ‘what-you-see-is-what-you-get relief’, head to Helvetia.
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Yummy Yummy
The two branches of Yummy Yummy, on Mirpur Rd and Airport Rd,will offer you homely reminders.
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Hotel Nigar
Step down that dimly lit alley/tunnel and cheap and reliable tastes await.
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Samdado Restaurant
Sleek design and sleek food characterise this lonely Japanese restaurant.
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Dominous Pizza
For some 'what-you-see-is-what-you-get relief', head to Dominous Pizza.
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Bronx Café
Bronx Café will offer you similar homely reminders.
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Café Mango
It’s hard to find but persist, because this little chestnut is well worth the hunt. Without even trying, the super-chilled atmosphere encourages you to linger far longer than you intended and, just as you’ve finished your delicious sandwiches and salad and plucked up the courage to face the outside world again, you spy the rich, creamy chocolate cake and kiss goodbye to the afternoon. Everything is freshly and hygienically made, and the walls are often adorned with the works of local artists. The breakfast is great too. To find it, turn onto Rd 13 (formerly Rd 32) from Mirpur Rd and take the first right. It’s a block up on the left.
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King’s Confectionary
Not only does it have a good range of light lunches and a mouth-watering selection of cakes (including Portugal’s finest, the pastéis de Belém for Tk 70), but it gets one of Dhaka’s only green-and-social awards for running a bring-and-buy scheme for old clothes. All proceeds go to charity.
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