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Saturday night: Lahore Tikka House is where it's happening
By Amreen Omar for Mybindi.com
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Diners indulging at Lahore Tikka House. Picture from www.lahoretikkahouse.com
My cousin is visiting from Scotland and we wanted to show him our Little India at Gerrard Street, one of the largest South Asian-concentrated shopping/eating areas in North America. We decided upon Lahore Tikka House for dinner, for it's reliably good north Indian/Pakistani food and cool ambience. We walked into the outdoor seating - the indoor renovations are still going on after several years, but progress is apparent, and it looks like it's going to be an impressive building. I've been here long enough to remember the charm of its once-much-smaller venue, but appreciate and admire their success and expansion.
The outdoor tent was buzzing with activity, the laughter of children, the waiters zipping around like whirling dervishes with their sizzling platters of tandoori items. In the background, the latest in Hindi remixes and filmi songs blared from a prominent loudspeaker - Himesh Reshammiya seems like a big fave of the owners.
We ordered an array of dishes - chicken biryani, seekh kebabs, chicken tikkas, boti kebabs, daal and palak. The food was good, a little on the oily side, but tasty and hot. Service at the LTH is prompt and the waiters went out of their way to accommodate my requests for less oil in the food. Accompanying our meals, some members of our group had mango lassis - a tasty and effective way of cooling down in today's heat.
After a pleasant dinner in the wedding-like ambience of LTH, we proceeded across the street to view the latest offerings of music and movies at Paan-o-rama, followed by chai and paan at the paanwaala next door. As we sat on the chairs outside the paanwaala's shop as he slowly and carefully brewed our tea, we partook in the fun people-watching all around us. To our right were the Gerrard Street dudes with their souped up sport cars, jewelry and big music. All around us were families with small children, scuttling their little ones about. Couples, strolling hand-in-hand and elderly men and women slowly making their way down the street stopping to look at vegetables and fruit.
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