Chicken karahi bubbling in a blackened steel karahi, steam rising in warm morning light

مالی دا کم پانی دینا، بھر بھر مشکاں پاوے مالک دا کم پھل پھُل لانا، لاوے یا نہ لاوے

خوش آمدید

From Haider & Waqas with love

Waqas buys the day's ingredients at the mandi every morning.

He cooks for the same forty households; Haider delivers it himself.

When a seat opens, the next family on the list gets a call.


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Har Sunday naya menu

This week's menu

Five dishes, Monday to Friday, and no dish repeats within the week.

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Forty seats, never more

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Prepaid weekday lunches: a day to try us, a week, or a month. Skip any day by 10 the night before.

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Mansehra and Khushab

The Dhansu story

Two men, one kitchen, and their own name on the box.

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Where we deliver

  • F-10
  • F-11
  • E-11
  • F-8
  • G-9
  • G-10
  • G-11

Office bundles

  • F-6
  • F-7
  • G-8
  • Blue Area

Lunch lands between 12 and 2:30, five days a week, carried by Haider himself.

A day at Dhansu

Subah se dopehar tak

Crates of tomatoes, onions and green chillies at the mandi in morning light

Subah 6 baje

The mandi, picked by Waqas himself

Sizzling tarka being poured over daal, oil and spices mid splash

Khana ban raha hai

One dish a day, done properly

Packed lunch boxes stacked and ready, a curl of steam escaping

Har dabba, haath se

Packed hot, counted twice

Biryani served on a steel platter, scattered with fresh coriander

Aap ka dastarkhwan

Between 12 and 2:30, five days a week

From the degh

What comes out of this kitchen

Chicken biryani heaped on a steel platter

Biryani

بریانی

Chicken karahi in a blackened steel karahi

Chicken karahi

چکن کڑاہی

Aloo gosht in a steel serving bowl

Aloo gosht

آلو گوشت

Daal fry with a garlic tarka in a small karahi

Daal fry

دال فرائی

Kofte salan in a steel handi

Kofte

کوفتے

Chicken pulao heaped on a steel platter

Chicken pulao

چکن پلاؤ

A tarka of oil, garlic and whole spices at the moment it hits the pan

The tarka you hear from two rooms away.

A cup of doodh patti chai on a dastarkhwan cloth, steam rising in soft light

Waqas and Haider

Two men, one kitchen

From Mansehra and Khushab to their own name on the box.

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