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20 new food stalls at Karachi Eat 2019 that we're dying to try
We've got our eyes on Jolly Rancher cotton candy, ice cream sandwiches & Cheetos-covered beef burgers
It's Karachi Eat time!
The popular food fest is taking place over the weekend from January 11-13 at the Beach Park on Edhi Avenue, Sea View. The ticket costs Rs300 of which Rs100 are redeemable.
This time, the organisers have exercised quite a bit of quality control, whittling down their list of 400 applicants to 95 stalls.
Karachi Eat organiser Omar Omari says, "We asked all applicants to submit a form (of Rs4,000 which was then given to charity) and one unique Karachi Eat special dish which was then judged by a series of jury members from celebrities, bloggers and journalists. We did over 400 tastings and narrowed it down to 95 new entries or Karachi Eat Specials - which we're calling them - we've also shared on social media."
That wasn't the only change Omari's brought to Eat: Karachi Eat's venue has changed from last year's Benazir Bhutto Park to Beach Park for logistical reasons. "Benazir Bhutto Shahid park has lots of bushes, which form corridors that restrict flow of traffic. That was becoming a little bit of a challenge for us. Also the fact that it's a step lower on one side so the stalls cannot be accommodated," says Omari.
Talking about the parking situation, Omari shares, "Parking this time around should be a lot, lot better because this park has a ton of space behind it which you can see in the pictures on our Facebook page. We’ve levelled the entire area, cordoned it off and we have regulated parking there so I think as far as this is concerned, I think it’s a better arrangement than ever before."
Apart from the food, expect the following attractions: "We've got a huge play area. like a mini theme park by AA Joyland. We're bringing in artists, but not anybody large scale as this year. We're going in-line with our approach to our festival, which is about bringing in new talent and new restaurants, so we're doing the same with our artists, and we've got a lot of underground bands: Tamasha, Kashmir, Jamberoo and one of the larger brands RDB."
Without further ado, here are 20 new stalls we're looking forward to feasting at...
Pizza L'oven
What's on the menu: We're selling three different types of pizzas; 5 Cheese Margerita (made with artisanal cheese from Karacheese), Smoked Chicken and Beef Pepperoni.
Goal for Karachi Eat: Our brand (not being an NGO) is the first of its kind at Karachi Eat to donate all profits to charity. Our main goal is to create awareness that a festival can be used for a social cause. The aim has never been just about selling good food but to make an impact and also sell a good product.
This year Pizza L'Oven is contributing to Baldia School of Champions - which provides education to children from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds - and we're coming up with ideas on how to utilise the money best for the students; like introducing them to YouTube and Skype for tutorials by people from all over Pakistan.
Future plans: We hope we can inspire people/vendors to use festivals as a platform to sell good food and pair it with a good cause.
Le Saint Honoré Pâtisserie
What's on the menu: The menu is extensive with seven to eight items. There will probably be a different menu everyday. We have the St. Honoré cake, a French dessert - our brand name is also inspired by this dessert, it's a traditional wedding cake of French origin and we're doing a smaller version of it for KE.
We're also doing brioche buns, it's a french bread, very soft and rich. We're introducing two types of brioche buns - sweet and savoury. The third item is a surprise. It's an expensive dessert but we will try to introduce just a few pieces since we have to cap the price at Rs 300, we're probably bringing it on Friday. There are some cakes, cookies, shot glass desserts, our brand is known for the best macarons in town, so our stall will have lots of macarons.
Goal for Karachi Eat: I wanted to be a part of it and I went for it.
Future plans: I'm not sure if I want to have an outlet yet, maybe two years down the road I may have a small outlet. But I plan on teaching french pâtisserie to young aspiring bakers.
SpicOgetti
What's on the menu: We'll be serving Chicken and Beef Khaosuey, Singaporean rice and our star entree for the festival Malpura Madness which is not part of our regular menu.
Goal for Karachi Eat: KE will definitely be a step forward for us given that we have been operating from home for three years. This will be our first public appearance where we will be serving live.
Future plans: We believe it may be a game changer for us and will take us to the next level.
Burger Bros
What's on the menu: We’re serving three sliders; the Level 1 slider is a mince, beef patty topped with our secret Boss Sauce and a pickle; The Boss is a premium, imported Wagyu beef patty topped with Gouda cheese, our secret Boss Sauce and a pickle, and lastly our Flamin' Chic Magnet is a juicy, deep-fried chicken thigh coated in crushed Flamin' Hot Cheetos, topped with jalapeño cheese and chopped jalapeños. All of the above are served on a bed of lettuce in a fresh potato roll.
We are also serving extra crunchy, Belgian french fries which go really well with our Boss Sauce.
Goal for Karachi Eat: We’re just a group of friends who started making sliders for fun and realised that a lot of people were really enjoying them. So we just hope to have some fun together by spreading our love for food with Karachi and seeing what the response is.
Future plans: We plan on taking orders for events in the future and then seeing how we go from there.
Churrosity
What's on the menu: Two varieties of Spanish churros: glazed (in the traditional Spanish style) and iced (served with soft serve ice cream). Owner Farrukh promises that his churros are made with the same machinery and technology as those he's tried abroad and so taste "about 95%" the same.
Goal for Karachi Eat: Farrukh says he wants to reach as many people as possible ans also spread awareness about what "real churros taste like". We've seen churros been made with syringe technology, which is not hygienic. We're introducing proper technology.
Future plans: Churrosity's outlet will open at Delawala Clifton in 10 days time and will offer centre-filled, topped and iced variants.
Sweet Escape
What's on the menu: We're serving flavoured candy floss. Five flavours made with Jolly Rancher hard candy; grape, watermelon, cherry, blue-raspberry and green apple, and two regular flavours mint and coffee. We also have two ice cream flavours, lemon and paan.
Goal for Karachi Eat: Most of our competition deals with chocolates, cookies and brownies, we tried to go for cotton candy, we feel it's an untapped market and many of us grew up eating candy floss, so we're hoping to bring back the taste.
Future plans: Karachi Eat has always been a platform for food vendors and our main aim is to make people aware of our brand.
The Crepery
What's on the menu: Crepes in five flavours, including Ferrero Rocher, Banana Caramel, Chicken Mushroom and Peppers, Mexican and Strawberry and Banana Split (which is a Karachi Eat special!).
Goal for Karachi Eat: Owner Jasir says when he started the brand with the idea of making crepes more accessible to the general public. At Karachi Eat, he hopes a greater number of people get to try his crepes. "I want more people to have a taste of France," he says with the hope that Karachiites become more open to trying different cuisines.
Future plans: The Crepery will continue serving and delivering its delicious crepes from the Chotu Chaiwala at Bukhari and Bahadurabad as well as its catering operations.
We've got our eyes on Jolly Rancher cotton candy, ice cream sandwiches & Cheetos-covered beef burgers
It's Karachi Eat time!
The popular food fest is taking place over the weekend from January 11-13 at the Beach Park on Edhi Avenue, Sea View. The ticket costs Rs300 of which Rs100 are redeemable.
This time, the organisers have exercised quite a bit of quality control, whittling down their list of 400 applicants to 95 stalls.
Karachi Eat organiser Omar Omari says, "We asked all applicants to submit a form (of Rs4,000 which was then given to charity) and one unique Karachi Eat special dish which was then judged by a series of jury members from celebrities, bloggers and journalists. We did over 400 tastings and narrowed it down to 95 new entries or Karachi Eat Specials - which we're calling them - we've also shared on social media."
That wasn't the only change Omari's brought to Eat: Karachi Eat's venue has changed from last year's Benazir Bhutto Park to Beach Park for logistical reasons. "Benazir Bhutto Shahid park has lots of bushes, which form corridors that restrict flow of traffic. That was becoming a little bit of a challenge for us. Also the fact that it's a step lower on one side so the stalls cannot be accommodated," says Omari.
Talking about the parking situation, Omari shares, "Parking this time around should be a lot, lot better because this park has a ton of space behind it which you can see in the pictures on our Facebook page. We’ve levelled the entire area, cordoned it off and we have regulated parking there so I think as far as this is concerned, I think it’s a better arrangement than ever before."
Apart from the food, expect the following attractions: "We've got a huge play area. like a mini theme park by AA Joyland. We're bringing in artists, but not anybody large scale as this year. We're going in-line with our approach to our festival, which is about bringing in new talent and new restaurants, so we're doing the same with our artists, and we've got a lot of underground bands: Tamasha, Kashmir, Jamberoo and one of the larger brands RDB."
Without further ado, here are 20 new stalls we're looking forward to feasting at...
Pizza L'oven
What's on the menu: We're selling three different types of pizzas; 5 Cheese Margerita (made with artisanal cheese from Karacheese), Smoked Chicken and Beef Pepperoni.
Goal for Karachi Eat: Our brand (not being an NGO) is the first of its kind at Karachi Eat to donate all profits to charity. Our main goal is to create awareness that a festival can be used for a social cause. The aim has never been just about selling good food but to make an impact and also sell a good product.
This year Pizza L'Oven is contributing to Baldia School of Champions - which provides education to children from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds - and we're coming up with ideas on how to utilise the money best for the students; like introducing them to YouTube and Skype for tutorials by people from all over Pakistan.
Future plans: We hope we can inspire people/vendors to use festivals as a platform to sell good food and pair it with a good cause.
Le Saint Honoré Pâtisserie
What's on the menu: The menu is extensive with seven to eight items. There will probably be a different menu everyday. We have the St. Honoré cake, a French dessert - our brand name is also inspired by this dessert, it's a traditional wedding cake of French origin and we're doing a smaller version of it for KE.
We're also doing brioche buns, it's a french bread, very soft and rich. We're introducing two types of brioche buns - sweet and savoury. The third item is a surprise. It's an expensive dessert but we will try to introduce just a few pieces since we have to cap the price at Rs 300, we're probably bringing it on Friday. There are some cakes, cookies, shot glass desserts, our brand is known for the best macarons in town, so our stall will have lots of macarons.
Goal for Karachi Eat: I wanted to be a part of it and I went for it.
Future plans: I'm not sure if I want to have an outlet yet, maybe two years down the road I may have a small outlet. But I plan on teaching french pâtisserie to young aspiring bakers.
SpicOgetti
What's on the menu: We'll be serving Chicken and Beef Khaosuey, Singaporean rice and our star entree for the festival Malpura Madness which is not part of our regular menu.
Goal for Karachi Eat: KE will definitely be a step forward for us given that we have been operating from home for three years. This will be our first public appearance where we will be serving live.
Future plans: We believe it may be a game changer for us and will take us to the next level.
Burger Bros
What's on the menu: We’re serving three sliders; the Level 1 slider is a mince, beef patty topped with our secret Boss Sauce and a pickle; The Boss is a premium, imported Wagyu beef patty topped with Gouda cheese, our secret Boss Sauce and a pickle, and lastly our Flamin' Chic Magnet is a juicy, deep-fried chicken thigh coated in crushed Flamin' Hot Cheetos, topped with jalapeño cheese and chopped jalapeños. All of the above are served on a bed of lettuce in a fresh potato roll.
We are also serving extra crunchy, Belgian french fries which go really well with our Boss Sauce.
Goal for Karachi Eat: We’re just a group of friends who started making sliders for fun and realised that a lot of people were really enjoying them. So we just hope to have some fun together by spreading our love for food with Karachi and seeing what the response is.
Future plans: We plan on taking orders for events in the future and then seeing how we go from there.
Churrosity
What's on the menu: Two varieties of Spanish churros: glazed (in the traditional Spanish style) and iced (served with soft serve ice cream). Owner Farrukh promises that his churros are made with the same machinery and technology as those he's tried abroad and so taste "about 95%" the same.
Goal for Karachi Eat: Farrukh says he wants to reach as many people as possible ans also spread awareness about what "real churros taste like". We've seen churros been made with syringe technology, which is not hygienic. We're introducing proper technology.
Future plans: Churrosity's outlet will open at Delawala Clifton in 10 days time and will offer centre-filled, topped and iced variants.
Sweet Escape
What's on the menu: We're serving flavoured candy floss. Five flavours made with Jolly Rancher hard candy; grape, watermelon, cherry, blue-raspberry and green apple, and two regular flavours mint and coffee. We also have two ice cream flavours, lemon and paan.
Goal for Karachi Eat: Most of our competition deals with chocolates, cookies and brownies, we tried to go for cotton candy, we feel it's an untapped market and many of us grew up eating candy floss, so we're hoping to bring back the taste.
Future plans: Karachi Eat has always been a platform for food vendors and our main aim is to make people aware of our brand.
The Crepery
What's on the menu: Crepes in five flavours, including Ferrero Rocher, Banana Caramel, Chicken Mushroom and Peppers, Mexican and Strawberry and Banana Split (which is a Karachi Eat special!).
Goal for Karachi Eat: Owner Jasir says when he started the brand with the idea of making crepes more accessible to the general public. At Karachi Eat, he hopes a greater number of people get to try his crepes. "I want more people to have a taste of France," he says with the hope that Karachiites become more open to trying different cuisines.
Future plans: The Crepery will continue serving and delivering its delicious crepes from the Chotu Chaiwala at Bukhari and Bahadurabad as well as its catering operations.
ahi bara burgers (!!!), aloo bun kebabs, kuliyas (that is, boiled potato pockets) and an assortment of regular items like mixed chaat, pani puri, methi puri, fries, chai, coffee and drinks!
