The logo implies a KFC knockoff, but while they do have ready-to-go fried chicken, there's also a range of pizzas, burgers, stuffed baked potatoes and even steak and trout. Colourful and contemporary, with a menu in English and free wi-fi, but it's in a faceless, new-build area of town.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Iran attractions

1. Mil-e Gonbad

1.32 MILES

A Unesco World Heritage site since 2012, this 53m tower in Gonbad's centre looks like a buttressed-brick spaceship with the cross-section of a 10-pointed…

2. Carpet Museum

1.35 MILES

This well-presented but very small museum exhibits seventeen 20th-century Turkmen carpets, labelled with dates of production and styles. There are also a…

3. Imamzadeh-ye Yahya

2.76 MILES

This large, ornate imamzadeh lies 4km southwest of central Gonbad-e Kavus. To the complex's direct west is a ragged area of wasteland that, viewed from…

4. Great Wall Fort #6

13.59 MILES

Of the dozen or so amorphous remains of the former forts that was once used to guard the Sadd-e Eskander wall, this is one of the best preserved. It's 4km…

5. Haji Qoshan

15.93 MILES

Locally known for being a former home of Turkmenistan's 'national poet' Makhtumkuli, the visually forgettable village of Haji Qoshan is one of the points…

6. Great Wall Fort #4

19.43 MILES

Around a dozen square-plan fort sites lie along the course of what was once the so-called Alexander's Wall. All are just muddy shapes rising above the…

7. Sadd-e Eskander

23.54 MILES

This ancient wall once stretched 190km from the Golestan Mountains to the Caspian Sea; like its equivalents in China and England, Alexander’s Wall was…