Housed in an old diner with simple diner-style tables and booths and a large screen tv showing Pakistani soaps, music videos and bizarre talk shows on one side of the room, this restaurant brings a welcome bit of Queens to Philadelphia. The menu has two parts, kabobs (lamb, chicken, fish, quail and beef), and stews that change daily. Some of the weekend specials such as Paya (trotter stew) and Haleem (barley and beef porridge) are hard to come by outside New York. Their tandoori breads are head and shoulders above what is normally available at Indian restaurants, as is their biryani and bbq. This is comfort food for many people as the taxi drivers who are always eating there will readily attest. Some of the stews can be somewhat oily, and the decor is minimalist at best, but the people are very nice and the prices reasonable.
Pros: Good food, good prices
Cons: Don't go there for the ambience!
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