Restaurants in North West Frontier Province
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Kabul Afghan Restaurant
Kabul Afghan Restaurant near the Zarin Palace is typical of the non-hotel restaurants, offering tikka, kebabs and pilau in simple surroundings.
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Punjabi Saltish Restaurant
A clean, popular, and inexpensive restaurant just off the GT Rd. It serves the usual Pakistani fare and occasional Western fast-food items in bright surroundings.
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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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Street Stalls
Sell freshly cooked samosas, and pakoras (deep-fried vegetables), and there are plenty of seasonal fruit stalls and bakeries (ask for tiki, pastries, sometimes stuffed with cheese or walnuts).
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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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Swat Garden Restaurant
On the ground floor of the Swat Continental Hotel. Come here to eat well in nice surroundings without breaking the bank. The Pakistani dishes are the best, as some of the Continental dishes get interpreted with eccentric flexibility.
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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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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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Suvastu Restaurant
This excellent restaurant is the place for a splurge. Sharply dressed waiters lay out meals on crisp linen, offering a wide selection of Chinese, Continental and Pakistani dishes. The evening poolside barbeque buffet Rs500 makes an excellent al fresco alternative.
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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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Afghan Restaurants
In various chaikhanas (teahouses) and Afghan restaurants around PIA Chowk, Ataliq Bridge and Naya Bazaar, you can sit cross-legged and eat qabli pilau (rice with meat and raisins), mutton curry or dhal for under Rs60 a head. Other Afghan restaurants can be found around Ataliq Bridge and Naya Bazaar.
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Pashtun Eateries
For quick eats, there are dozens of Pashtun eateries along GT Rd, particularly near the bus station and around Nishat Chowk. Fill up on chicken, kebabs, curries and dhal for a few rupees, washed down with juice from a nearby drinks stand. Seasonal fruit vendors are everywhere, especially trying to out-shout one another at Green Chowk.
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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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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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