Restaurants in Peshawar
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Khyber Bazaar
From the Cantonment you approach the Old City along Railway Rd and through Khyber Bazaar, consisting mostly of cheap hotels, kebab stands and carpet merchants (stand around for a few minutes and one will sidle up to you). The city wall and its 16 gates were knocked down in the 1950s but many gates remain in name.
The streets leading south and east from the Rose Hotel have several good (unsigned) Afghan cafés serving rice and kebabs, plus piping-hot Central Asian-style naan, although in the Old City you're never too far from good, filling street food.
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Lala's Grill
Part of Green's Hotel, this is a welcome place to eat if you're craving clean cutlery and tablecloths. The menu sticks to standards along the Pakistani-Chinese-Continental axis, and the waiters agreeably tell you what the chef has just been cooking if you want to eat quickly or what needs to be prepared from scratch (usually the Continental dishes) if you're in no rush.
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Shiraz Restaurant
There's something of a canteen atmosphere to this place, but you can fill up on a host of Pakistani dishes and its specialty - barbequed chicken. Always busy, with a quick turnover of tasty food. An offshoot of the fancier restaurant of the same name in University Town.
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Shiraz Restaurant University Town
A very upmarket option if you want Afghan and Pakistani fare under icy-cold air-con, with linen napkins starched to an inch of their lives. If you're going to treat yourself, do it here with the whole leg of lamb roasted until the meat falls from the bone.
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Hong Kong Restaurant
Peshawar's first Chinese restaurant, Hong Kong has been serving up noodles for several decades now. The menu is a blockbuster read in itself, and the dishes come quick and hot. The soups are good, while the plates of chow mein are mountainous.
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Habibi Restaurant
A cut above most places you'll find in the Old City, the rooftop restaurant at Habibi's is made for summer evening eating. The menu is meat-heavy, with the smells of the barbeque wafting through the air to work up your appetite.
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Silver Star Cafe
A great hole-in-the-wall eatery with samosas, fried chicken, potato slices and a few sweet options for dessert. Ideal for eating and running, with a few places opposite offering more of the same.
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