Lahori Chicken Karahi (Half / Full)
لاہوری چکن کڑاہی
Bone-in chicken, fresh tomato (no purée), green chilli, ginger julienne, ghee. Served bubbling.
PKR 2,480
since 2014
Pakistan's plates. One table at a time.
Six branches. One menu. Karahi cooked in real ghee, tandoor fired with charcoal, biryani layered by hand. Founded in Lahore in 2014 by Tariq Mahmood and Chef Imtiaz "Chacha" Hussain.
Six cities. One kitchen.
View all branches →Lahore Gulberg
Gulberg III
Karahi, Charga, Tandoor
Islamabad F-7
F-7 Markaz
Pulao, Nihari (slow-cooked overnight)
Karachi DHA
DHA Phase 6
Bihari Boti, Karachi-style biryani
Lahore CCA
DHA Phase 5 (CCA)
Family-friendly, Sunday brunch
Faisalabad
Susan Road
BBQ courtyard, live tandoor
Multan
Cantt — Bosan Road
Sohan halwa dessert bar, Multani sajji
co-founder
Chacha Imtiaz
Forty years of tandoor and karahi tradition. Chacha Imtiaz is third-generation Lahori — his grandfather ran a small bhatti in Mochi Gate; his father, a dhaba in Mozang. He has personally trained 60+ working chefs across Pakistan, including all six Spice Route head chefs. He spends two weeks a year travelling between branches making sure the karahi tastes the same in Karachi as it does in Lahore.
Chacha still walks the line on Friday nights at the Gulberg flagship. He spends two weeks of every year travelling between the six branches, tasting karahi and rewriting marinade ratios by hand in a small notebook he has carried since 2008.
Read more in our story.
what to order
A few that built the place.
Whole Tandoori Charga
چرغہ
Whole young chicken, twelve-hour spiced marinade, hung in the tandoor for 22 minutes. Serves 2–3.
PKR 2,980
Sindhi Beef Biryani
سندھی بریانی
Aromatic basmati, tender beef, dried plums, potato, fresh mint, generous in chilli. Served with raita and salad.
PKR 1,280
Beef Nihari
نہاری
Slow-cooked overnight, tender shank, finished with ginger and lemon. Best on a Sunday morning at the Islamabad branch.
PKR 1,480
in the press
Read about us.
"One of the ten restaurants defining modern Pakistani cuisine."— Dawn, Feb 2023
"A textbook case study of family-run hospitality scaling without losing its line cook."— Profit by Pakistan Today, Jul 2024
"Travellers' Choice across five branches in 2024."— TripAdvisor, 2024
Save a seat at our table.
Book by branch — the same form covers all six. We hold reservations for fifteen minutes; after that we open the table to the floor.
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