On Spot @ Chaaye Khana (Again)

Chaaye Khana is probably my most favorite place in Islamabad. I love the ambiance. Plus the lighting really helps with photography. So, yeah, the place is pretty cool.

I've always only gone to Chaaye Khana for the tea and/or desserts. But this time I thought to give lunch a try. I wasn't completely satisfied. The food tasted pretty good. I ordered the Chicken & Mushroom Fettuccine & my friend ordered the Spicy Grilled Chicken. The grilled chicken was really good, a little different from what you normally find under that heading. But the fettuccine was way more oily than it was creamy. It tasted good, but the amount of oil on my plate after I'd finished was enough to fuel a trip to Peshawar.

The tea, as always, was amazing. I tried the Coco & Spice Roobois this time. But I was a little disappointed to find that my all-time favorite, the Caramel Pear Gold, was nowhere on the menu.

On Spot @ Chaaye Khana

In my experience, chocolate cake is the most simplest of delicacies. Yes, very few people tend to get it right. Especially if it's Chocolate Lava Cake.

But the people at Chaaye Khana know exactly when to turn up the heat and when to turn it down. Because their Chocolate Lava Cake was diviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine!

I've always loved Chaaye Khana, for its variety of teas on the menu and also for the ambiance. Sipping good tea sitting among a shelf upon shelf of books, there's never a dull moment. And talking about tea, whoever is planning on a visit to Islamabad or whoever lives here and still hasn't been to Chaaye Khana, I urge you to drop in and try their Caramal Pear Gold Rooibos or their Strawberry White tea - both are amazing!

Plus, for the early birds, they have a wonderful breakfast menu to choose from - which I'm itching to try.

The prices are reasonable, the ambiance is great & the menu is worth more than a few visits.

Happy dining! 

Tea Love

I've recently discovered that I love flavoured tea. There are just too many possibilities. So one fine Friday morning (which is "Sunday morning" for Muslims) I decided I needed to infuse some Earl Grey into my life. And of course, I couldn't have JUST Earl Grey, so there had to be pancakes, the apple-cinnamon kind.

And VOILA! - Breakfast is served.

Of course there was no syrup in my house. So I just slathered some jam in between the cupcakes and forked them all up.

Lipton's Russian Earl Grey was amazing! It's definitely not as good as Twinning's Earl Grey but amazing nonetheless.

And speaking of flavored teas, right now I'm downing a cupful of Lipton's Pink Citrus. Love it!

Here's the recipe for the pancakes. It's in Polish, but Google is always nice enough to translate it for you - if you're using Chrome.
My only change was using AP Flour instead of the whole-wheat flour the recipe calls for.