Who hasn’t tried the Bahraini halwa and just fell in love with it? I’m guessing none. It’s one of the best arabic sweets around, especially when it’s from AlShuwaiter. It is one of those “must bring some back to my family and friends” whenever we’re in Bahrain. INM took some pictures when he was in Bahrain a couple of weeks ago to share them with you guys. He said that they prepare the halwa infront of you and pack it on demand. The Halwa ranges from KD1.5 to KD3.5, according to it’s kind and the amount of nuts in it.

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Inspired by Mark’s post, my friend tried it and liked it, so He and I decided to have it this weekend. It was my first time making this McGangBang thingi, and If I had my eyes closed while eating I wouldn’ haven known what the hell I was putting in my mouth.

The sandwich is basically a chicken burger shoved in a double cheeseburger. The process didn’t make a mess, but I can’t say the same about the way it tasted.. coz that was a complete and utter mess, the flavors were all over the place, and it was too big it had my jaw throbbing by the end.

It tasted like 4 buns and ketchup.. won’t have it again.

Yes, Sadly i got this news today from Mcdonald’s, my lovely DQP is no more on the menu

My friend HKR was looking all around for white tea. He heard much about it, he heard that the white tea is the finest form of teas available and it is also the healthiest. He then finally stumbled across this tea shop in Almuthanna complex.
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We’ve been hearing a lot about this restaurant called Rice that opened recently in the avenues and we decided to give it a try.
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So we were discussing which humus is the best in Kuwait. For me it’s got to be Kanari’s and my inlaws like Nawara’s. I know other people who love Altaibawy’s. So now which restaurant do you think have the best humus in Kuwait ?

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I’ve been reading similar arabic dates lately. It seems to be getting more and more common to write weird expiry dates. Have you noticed?

I was recommended this restaurant by a friend, and was very interested in trying it out since it specializes in chicken wings. I really like having chicken wings with it’s spicy buffalo sauce and thought I’d try it for dinner. I spent some time looking for this place, although I was told it’s near Sahran in Aljabriya, which is supposed to be very easy to find, I still managed to get lost.
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My friend loco was in Dubai this past weekend and got to lean a few things about restaurants that’ll open soon in Kuwait.

The Meat Company

The waitress asked for my friend’s nationality and when He said Kuwaiti she said we’re opening soon in there. Then the manager came and specified that The Meat Co. will open in the new 360 Mall. Their website also states the same.

Taco Bell

As He was ordering he asked if the Taco Bell is under Americana in the middle east, she said yes, and then told him that they’re gonna open in a mall in Kuwait but that she wasn’t sure of it’s name, but she said that the mall’s name starts with a number… He asked if it’s 360, she wasn’t able to confirm.

The Noodle House

As he was complaining to the manager about how the dishes aren’t the same (this restaurant was an addiction when we were students there), the manager mentioned that they’ll open in Kuwait some time this year, but didn’t know where exactly. Their official website says that it’ll open 2 branches, one in the gulf road and another branch at the Messila beach hotel.

Karam Beirut

A very good lebanese restaurant in Dubai is opening soon in the avenues phase II. next to Layl Nhar restaurant.

Thanks loco

We went to the Butcher Shop in Avenues mall last saturday, and it was my first visit to Kuwait’s branch, I’ve been to the one in dubai numerous of times and used to like it at first. The one in Dubai started off strong with quality meat and started it down spiral only months after it’s opening.

I went to the one in Avenues coz my friends said that it’s good. They’ve tried it and they liked it.

We were 7 and we ordered 7 steaks, 5 T-Bones and 2 Rib eyes. one of them was to be cooked Medium-rare, 2 medium-wells and 3 mediums. The waitress was confused and we had to repeat the order multiple of times and she still did not get it right, so we asked her to retake the whole order and rewrite it. She was a mess.

The starters came and were superb. The prawns with cream and lemon were very good.

The main dishes, the steaks, came and were a joke. they were all overcooked. All shades of gray when we started to cut em and not a single medium in there. They messed up the whole order (well except the rare steak, coz it came out pretty rare). When we complained to the waiter(s) they all seamed to repeat one phrase, which was “this is our medium steaks in here.” The manager, who stood still and did not come even though he was looking directly at our table and hearing us, came to us after we asked to talk to him, he said the same thing too. He did not seem interested in our opinion nor in our dissatisfaction. Even after we got real angry he did not seem to be of much help and was annoyingly careless. He did however change 4 of our steaks in the end. (3ogob malawa3 chboodna)

The experience was an awful one. The manager needs to be changed coz he didn’t seem to know what he was doing. I wouldn’t go there anymore, not only because they did not know the difference between a medium and a well-done, but because the service, the manager, the chef and the quality of their meats are of low standards. charging 9+ KDs for this kind of steaks is a rip off too. If you’re in a mood for good steaks treat yourselves to Terrace Grill in J.W. Mariott’s or Gaucho’s instead.

Today me and my in law’s went to Le Pain Quotidien at Marina crescent to have our brunch there. it was the first time to have breakfast in Le Pain but I heard a positive feedbacks about it. Even yousef went there some time ago, and yes it was so tasty! I took around 60+ pics of most of our dishes but i cant remember their names

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My friend sent me a one dozen sample of basbosas from their newly launched home business, Lgaima sweets, for me to try and review. Let me start off this review by saying that I’m not a fan of the traditional Basbosa, and that was one of the main reasons why I loved my mother’s ‘Basbosa wanabee‘, because she doesn’t use coconut in it. I’m not a fan of coconuts.. I loathe Bounty the chocolate bar.
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Ahmad sent me an email couple of weeks ago showing you the best and the easiest way to eat pomegranate.. its just few steps and wont take any time and its really useful!

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The one that just opened in the free trade zone.

And here is the menu for ordering.

Thanks HNM

But this time not in the Avenues, it will be in 360 Mall which will be opened at the end of this year.

Thanks INM

PICTURE

Our friend Ansam from the blog next door is going to be on AlWatan TV today on Sabah Alwatan. The show is going to air from 8am to 11am, and then on Alwatan plus from 1pm to 4pm. She’ll be cooking some dishes, So don’t forget to tune in to catch some her recipes

Update:

The Airing of our friend’s segment was postponed. We’ll let you know once we know when they’re going to air it.

We got an e-mail from Alf Laila where she kindly wrote a Dean & Deluca review for us to publish. Here is what she thought of the place:

“Wanting to try out the all too hip Dean and DeLuca café in the Avenues my family and I went there for a light early dinner. While I’m impressed with their collection of caviar, honey and marinades, I have but one phrase regarding their café: ALLA YZEED IL NI3MA. (May God increase our blessings).

Unfortunately I don’t recall the exact names of the orders and I do apologize for the poor quality of the photos as they were taken from my phone. My order was a goat cheese and avocado sandwich, both ingredients that I like. But, there was way too much of the goat-cheese-avocado mixture inside the sandwich and I had to leave some of it out. The picture shows what was leftover of my sandwich. One of us also ordered some sort of chicken sandwich and please do speak up if you’ve seen this 7araka before but I don’t recall ever going to a restaurant where they actually left lemon peel INSIDE a sandwich! Again refer to the picture. Last but not least, the pizza was not made of bread that was typical of pizza bread but rather it looked more like pita (Lebanese) bread and it kind of looked like hospital food because it was so thin. All in all the café was a disappointment and we decided not to stay there for desert. I did decide to go again but I warned my cousin this time against eating there. We ordered two coffees and a muffin and when we finally asked for the bill we received a stack of maybe three or four bills stapled together and on top of them it said on a small piece of paper a price of a little over 14KD. I was astounded because there was no way a Chai Latte, a Café Au Lait, and a Blueberry muffin would cost that much! It turned out the register was broken. Our actual bill was for only KD 3. That, I can forgive because a broken register is an understandable glitch in the beginning of a restaurant’s operation. Also, in their defense I have to say that the waiters were polite and friendly and our waiter was very apologetic about the mistake in the bill.
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Anyone can confirm this?

Thanks Abdullah

This is the guy I promised you guys to post about, His name is Abu Abdullah and he makes his living out of doing this home delivery kind of barbecuing. He brings all of his tools, meats and stuff and does the barbeque right infront of you.

His grills includes Reyash (lamb chops), Kabab, Sheesh 6awooq (the chicken in the picture), sho2af (tikka), and Arayes (the sandwich in the picture below. It is minced meat+onion+tomatos+cheese, all sandwiched and grilled together).
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Well, as you all may have known already, Dean & Deluca (fancy name huh?) has opened in the Avenues. My  brother went there and liked what he saw. He said that he liked the idea of having a fancy gourmet grocery store in Kuwait.

The place looked very fancy and spacious (attached to a relatively small cafe) and the products were of premium quality and most of them were the hard-to-find types in other groceries.

It has many things to offer including fresh fish, crabs, cheeses, fruits, veggies and sweets. Also a bakery and a wide variety of packed sauces (for pastas and stuff).

The place is a gourmet grocery store, so the prices.. yep you guessed it.. are high compared to other places like carrefour and sultan center, But you know, you get what you pay for.

I still haven’t checked it out. I want to go there sometime.

Thanks INM & HNM

Dean & Deluca