Boat Basin, Clifton
Restaurants/food street/local food
Boat Basin is a long food street located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Boat Basin has the most trendy restaurants and considered one of the main food streets in Karachi. Today the street is thriving with dozens of restaurants, out of which some are open non-stop. It is the most frequent eat-out place of Karachi for the middle-class. Some restaurants are open for a breakfast of paratha or halwa puri, or during lunch hours. However, most places open for dinner with the prime time between 8 pm and 1 am. Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Park is also located near Boat Basin.
Boat Basin has many indoor and outdoor eating areas. You can walk around and eat at many different places. If you're in a group, everyone can pick food according to their preferences. You can see all cooking done here are live right from chopping, marinating to cooking in front of customers as per their taste. The restaurants here serve a superb range of great tasting freshly cooked Pakistani, Mughlai, Afghani dishes at unbeatable prices.
The area got its name from the lake (which is part of Karachi mangrove forests) which had been a favorite boating place. As the city got bigger the lake's clear waters changed to the today brown waters and the boating has ceased. The Boat Basin, the water of which was once naturally replenished with fresh seawater because of its proximity to the sea is gradually drying up and turning into a cesspool due to unplanned constructions in the area blocking its access to the sea. The restaurants have been originally built to serve those who came for boating.
Eating Places
Boat Basin has many indoor and outdoor eating areas. You can walk around and eat at many different places. If you're in a group, everyone can pick food according to their preferences. You can see all cooking done here are live right from chopping, marinating to cooking in front of customers as per their taste. The restaurants here serve a superb range of great tasting freshly cooked Pakistani, Mughlai, Afghani dishes at unbeatable prices.
The area got its name from the lake (which is part of Karachi mangrove forests) which had been a favorite boating place. As the city got bigger the lake's clear waters changed to the today brown waters and the boating has ceased. The Boat Basin, the water of which was once naturally replenished with fresh seawater because of its proximity to the sea is gradually drying up and turning into a cesspool due to unplanned constructions in the area blocking its access to the sea. The restaurants have been originally built to serve those who came for boating.
Eating Places
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KFC
Nandos Subway Pizza Hut Burger King TGI Fridays Tao Del Frio Mr Burger Roadside Cafe |
Hanifia
Tipu Burger and Broast Nihari Inn Tandoori Hut Restaurant Mughal Darbar Restaurant Qasr-e-Nakheel Restaurant Kabab Rolls Restaurant Thali Inn Restaurant Spicy Chicken Chips Fast food Karachi Broast Chick and Chips Karachi Snacks Jan's Broast Jeddah Biryani |
French Fries
- cart near Motta's Store Flamingo Juice and Chaat Cool Inn Tipu Bun Kabab Roll Inn Chatpatta Inn |
Baloch Ice-cream Parlor
Rajoo Ice cream Magnum Store |
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