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Mama’s Eat & Glow Healthy Basket

The first time I came upon Mama’s Eat & Glow products was back when I first began to frequent the weekly Shakshooka Market. If you follow their instagram account you’d fall in love with the gorgeous pictures they post of their products and that’s how I came to know about their Gianduja, or “healthy Nutella”, spread that I’ve posted about before. The owner of Mama.. Eat & Glow emailed me on the night of my departure to London asking for my address because she wanted to send me some of their healthy products to try and, true to her word, the moment she learned I was back in Kuwait she sent me the basket of freshly made products complete with a jar of fresh flowers for me to try. 

Its not a basket per say, its really a recycled wooden crate painted white and lined with the goodies and the jar of flowers. Had I not known they were a small home business, I would have thought they were a well-established one for the funky product branding was lovely! The wooden crate is a nod to the recycling attitude they encourage, customers can have discounted re-fills of their healthy products if they recycle their empty jars.

To say my stomach was growling when I received my rustic basket was an understatement. To know that the goodies lying before me are healthy: both organic and made with natural sugar from dates or honey meant I wanted to gobble everything up at once.

The first thing I reached for was the coloured box that had “truffles” printed on it. Truffles are my weakness in any shape or form and would you look at those gorgeous little truffles?

When I finally settled down for a cup of tea later that evening I almost had to fight my husband for the truffles, which didn’t exist for long in our household. The first one we called the “mocha” truffle which was deep and dark and very delicious. The second one that looked like it was sprinkled with dry rose petals was what we called “Ramadan in a bite”. I swear, one bite and I felt we were already in Ramadan after iftar smelling bukhoor and drinking Arabian coffee. I think it was date based and I do not like dates. I DO NOT like dates, but this is different and the rose worked very well with it. Truffles are highly recommended.

Next came the bars, and there were plenty of these bars to go around for a week or so! Three flavours of bars: Chocolate, Pecan, and rose and as a rose flavour lover I chose to go with the rose.

The rose bar was quite tasty: chewy, crunchy, and enough to suppress your appetite for a few hours after your meal is due. I didn’t try the pecan still, but I tried the chocolate one and though it was good I felt it wasn’t “chocolate-y” enough. I wanted it to have more chocolate-oomph but it is a matter of taste after all, you should try it for yourself and see.

Next? Ah, the jars! There were three of them, a big granola filled jar and two smaller ones labeled as Gianduia and Arachidi.

Gianduia and Arachidi: Hazelnut spread and peanut butter spread respectively. I’ve already tried and posted about the gianduia before, my husband loves to eat it with Kiri cheese on brown wholewheat toast, but I’m yet to try the Arachidi. A favourite breakfast of mine is sliced apple topped with a spoonful of peanut butter and that’s exactly how I’m going to deal with the Arachidi jar next.

And the granola? It was really good, you could feel strong hints of coconut and a few subtle notes of honey in its flavour as I munched away in my Alphonso mango, low fat greek yoghurt, and granola bowl. If you are on the hunt of good granola you might want to try theirs, rest assured there will be no weird ingredients with unpronounceable names mixed in.

 

One thing I loved about their products, aside from the funky and carefree spirit reflected by their branding, is that they all came with expiry dates. Good natural food must come with an expiry date, it clearly means there are no preservatives. The spreads also need refregirating by the way.

I do have one request of Mama… eat & glow, if its possible to provide the nutritional information of their product or have them printed on their labels, just so a hungry person wouldn’t over indulge in the goodies because they are good for you. Did I already state how much I love their branding? I wish every home business took as much effort in coming up with such products and paid as much attention to details.

Thank you dear Maha for sending me this gorgeous basket of healthy and delicious goodies. I will be recycling my jars sooner than you think! For more information regarding Mama… Eat & Glow and to order some of their good products, you can check their instagram account (@EatandGlow) or stop by their booth in the next Shakshooka market, the location of which should be announced each Thursday morning by checking the hashtag #ShakshookaMarket on instagram.

Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Egg ‘n’ Spoon

Its been a while since I’ve posted something on the blog and if you follow me on Instagram you’d probably know the reason why. I’ve spent the past two weeks wandering the streets of my beloved London, enjoying the Spring weather and all good things London has to offer. Easter time is the best time to visit for chocolate lovers as gigantic chocolate egg-shaped concoctions appear everywhere and they get more and more creative each year. I don’t really celebrate Easter per say but my grandmother used to celebrate the arrival of spring, or shame el naseem as she called it, every year by decorating clay pots with some kind of plant that would grow on it and preparing a spread of eggs and water colours for us to use and paint the eggs.

My egg painting days are long behind me, I don’t believe I’ve done that past 1989, but I do indulge in chocolate eggs whenever I can especially the Cadbury creme egg that appears during easter -my favourite!-. This year as I was walking down the aisles of Sainsbury’s I came upon a small egg box in Cadbury’s signature purple with four chocolate eggs inside but not the good old creme eggs, this time they are filled by either chocolate or white milk mousse inside! I grabbed me a box immediately to try of course, no hesitation there.

Inside the egg box lay four wrapped chocolate eggs with tiny plastic spoons. The eggs were almost the size of a real hen egg.

My only problem with the was that the chocolate shell was too thick, you couldn’t crack it open with the spoon. You had to be aggressive and bite the head off to reveal the centre and then be all civilised and scoop the milky mousse from the centre with the little purple plastic spoon provided.

The chocolate egg, however, is quite addictive! I’m taking about the one with the milky mousse centre and not the chocolate one which I’m yet to try, I expect it would be a tad too chocolatey though.

Eating the chocolate egg is quite fun and not messy at all if you resist the urge to stuff the whole thing in your mouth in one go. You get to eventually do that after you almost finish the milky mousse centre off anyway.

One egg is more than enough per day though. The perfect sugar and chocolate fix if you are craving either one.

Because most of the Kuwaiti population is currently roaming the streets of London you can ask anyone who is there to grab you a box on their way home or get a few home yourself, that is if it isn’t available already in Sultan Center. The egg ‘n’ spoon are even better than both the kinder egg and the Cadbury creme egg! I wish it would make an appearance in the future and become a permanent fixture in the Cadbury chocolate range.

Now, stay tuned for a few more posts, London or otherwise. My fingers are itching and I like it when I have a lot to say but not know where to begin from

Do You Introduce Friends to Each Other in Public?

In a normal scenario the answer to the question of the post’s title should be quite simple. Two groups of people meet, the ones who know each other -friends, colleagues, family- say hello and proceed to introduce whomever in their company, easy no?

Wrong!

On very rare occasions was I with somebody who met someone they know and I don’t and the person I know took the time to introduce me properly, or at all, which means unless I was introduced I would end up as useless spectacle standing to the side and smiling stupidly at a bunch of strangers who can’t spare you a glance, let alone a smile or a nod hello, and might go on talking forever while spiders knit their cobwebs on your bored head. I dread this most with couples, you’d think when I am out with my husband and we meet another couple one of us knows then both sets would stand and greet each other nicely but in reality it is a very awkward moment that make me cringe just thinking about it.

Some couples would have the wife staring into her phone or continuing her walk, staring deliberately straight ahead. Others would see the wife stand to the back, all rigid and looking everywhere but at you or her husband saying hello, a sour pout decorating her face. I’ve even met a religious couple where the man is a good friend of my husband’s and was a colleague of mine in University but he chose to ignore our presence entirely and grant my husband the slightest nod hello when their eyes met inches from each other just so he wouldn’t stop and get into that awkward situation of saying hello while his wife was trailing behind him. The classic scenarios is with married girls who flee with their husbands if they happen to encounter women they know in public, even if the woman is happily married but her husband is at home or waiting at a nearby shop!

I’m not sure who is at fault here but I see nothing wrong with two groups of people, couples or more, standing together and after the hello introducing each other to each other even if it was for a second or two. It doesn’t cost money, it doesn’t degrade your social status. It is normal human behaviour unless you are really in a hurry or distraught with something and couldn’t spare a moment to stop and say hello.

In the beginning I was all smiley when meeting other people and always stood there with a stupid smile on my face. Then when I realised people tend to neglect your presence when you are a stranger and would do all sorts of things just to avoid your gaze, I started to do the same frankly. Why bother? Why stand and wait for someone who obviously wasn’t comfortable enough to extend a simple hello to a semi-stranger?

Personally, if I am with someone and I meet someone I know and they don’t I immediately introduce them after I say hello because that’s the polite thing to do. Whether or not they say hello to each other is up to them. However, if I am waiting for a person I know to greet someone they know and I don’t, I tend to stay behind, look away like all the others and pretend they don’t exist unless someone is kind enough to introduce me or the stranger is sweet enough to smile my way, not because I’m anti-social or anything -well I am, a tad- but because I’m done with putting people in agony for saying hello to someone they don’t know.

How about you? What do you do in that case? Do you look away? Do you smile and wait to be introduced? Do you introduce people you know to each other and let them join in your greetings?

Tea in Becarre Gallery’s Rooftop Garden

For a while now I’ve been hearing raving reviews about Becarre Gallery, a design and furniture showroom in old Salmiya. I’ve seen pictures, and more pictures, and some more blog posts, each more stunning than the next, but never been there in person myself, frankly because the trip to old Salmiya and was just too tiresome for me. Then the weather got better and Becarre began hosting the “Chwaihat Becarre” weekly social event and I knew the time had come to make the long-awaited visit to Becarre.

A sucker for all things beautiful, I was almost rooted to the entrance admiring the artistic pieces and displays spread all around me! Everywhere you look, you find a unique and quite tasteful item that is breathtaking. The style is a modern Kuwaiti fusion, bold traditional and unapologetically dazzling. I wanted to move in and call Becarre home!

Becarre is notorious for being “over-priced” but from my browsing the store and checking what they had on offer, I could see that some items are very reasonably priced considering how lovely and unique their design is. You could buy a unique home warming gift for someone who appreciates beauty or a souvenir to take back home from Kuwait in quite reasonable prices.

If I’m to post all the pictures I’ve taken of the gallery I would take several posts, but pictures do not do the gallery justice, you must visit yourself and see with your own eyes!

The Chwaihat Becarre event, which roughly translates to “Becarre’s Tea”, is a weekly evening tea gathering on the roof garden of Becaree’s gallery. The garden is decorated with more of Becarre’s unique items and softly lit with lots of Kuwaiti lanterns “fanoos” or “fowanees” and candles.

The weather was awesome, the temperature cool and the wind was playful. The roof garden tea party’ atmosphere was, simply put, whimsical.

I posted the picture above in instagram the moment I went into the garden. Then I heard the co-owner of Becarre Gallery, the talented Mr. Hussam Al Rushaid, ask about the person who took it, humble little me, and that’s how I was introduced! It was quite an honour to be capture the eye of the artist himself! Mind blowing to say the least!

After greetings and introductions I took my seat and enjoyed a warming cup of Arabian coffee in the lavish rooftop garden. Surrounded by good food, lovely weather, art, and lively conversation.

Hello there, old Salmiya! Its been a while for sure. Looking down the now vaguely familiar main shopping street of my childhood felt surreal. The old buildings are almost all but gone but finding a parking spot for your car is still a problem.

Looking around the items decorating the rooftop garden I noticed they had a different feel to them, more industrial somehow. I was told they were all put together from recycled materials by another Kuwaiti talent, artist Bader Al-Mansour. From little animals with door knobs for a face to a side table made from the steering wheel of a boat! How extraordinary! 

It was quite a visit to Becarre Gallery! It is definitely one of those hidden gems in Kuwait. If you are visiting Kuwait you must stop by and check it out yourself! If you are fortunate, you might even make it to one of Becarre’s Monday tea parties, they are not one to miss and are open to the public. Thank you Mr. Hussam Al-Rushaid for your kind words regarding my picture. A special thank you goes to the lovely hosts of Chwaihat Becarre, Sends Al-Bader and Ansam Al-Radwan! I truly look forward to more and more chwaihat to come

Becarre Gallery is located in Salmiya, Salem Al-Mubarak Street, Northen Salmiya Building. If you look up at the second floor you’ll find the sign there and it comes with a private elevator entrance right next to BHS. For more information you can check their website (link), give them a call at (+965) 2575-7725 or follow them on instagram (@Becarrels).

Munchos Crisps are Back!

I was almost falling asleep last night as I was browsing Instagram just before bedtime when my eyes fell on a very familiar red and white bag with a big blue smiley that started my heart racing and my blood pumping! Munchos! Munchos were very popular potato crisps made in Kuwait and are long discontinued for god knows what reason. They were my favourite crisps as a child and a teenager and I missed them terribly. The startled jump I felt in my heart as I saw the picture of the long lost bag of crisps made me realise how much exactly had I missed it.

At first I thought it was just an oldie picture of a fellow Munchos lover reminiscing about their childhood. Let me tell you something before I proceed with my story: I don’t eat crisps or chips much, I’m not a fan. There are perhaps only 5 types of crisps I eat in the entire world: 1- The Real McCoy’s crinkle cut salted potato chips in the UK that I can barely find anymore because apparently people don’t like the salted flavour. 2- Salted Hula Hoops that I eat with a cheddar Ploughman sandwich from Pret and a bottle of Lemon diet coke in Heathrow before I board the plane back to Kuwait. 3- Sometimes, on rare occasions, I crave those potatoes chips that look like sticks and come in a tin but once every blue moon and 4- Munchos, my ever favourite mildly salted puffed potato crisps that tasted like pillows crunching between your teeth and even came in a Za’atar variety.

Where was I? Oh yes, thinking it was only a reminiscing of the old post, I began gazing at the picture longingly before realising what exactly the caption was promising: 2 days ago, the manufacturer of Munchos, Fico, started the countdown for the date of its release back into the Kuwaiti market! I swear my eyes began to tear up from happiness and blood was racing again and I almost but screamed out for a bag of Munchos right there and then! How I’m going to wait another 27 days for my first bag of Munchos bag, I do not know.

Am I overreacting? You think I’m overreacting over a bag of potato chips now, don’t you? Let me explain: imagine something you’ve loved and adored during your childhood, something you grew up with and loved, and then it was there no more and suddenly its back! You form a particular, and quite unique, attachment to things you loved as a child and they and only they have the power to pull you back from the hectic life you were tricked into as an adult into a more innocent and less demanding time of your life when you were happy and carefree. This is what Munchos represents to me, another gateway to my past and its right up there with Kids R Us and Hungry Bunny and Alamiya Pizza, all things that are now long gone but never forgotten.

If you are a child of the 70′s and 80′s and perhaps even 90′s and can relate to what I’m saying, then congratulations fellow ex-children, Munchos is back and by the response I’m getting from my peers I know I’m not the only one who is ready to welcome a chunk of their childhood back into our lives. We are talking cartons of Munchos crisps and even a possibility of a Munchos party people! Let us rejoice, and we will insha2 Allah, in 27 days if god grants us to live until that day

A light “Calorie Burning” Dinner

Eating dinner is always a dilemma for me. I’m a breakfast person, period. I’d rather eat my entire daily calorie intake for my breakfast meal and usually couldn’t care less about dinner. In my teenage years dinner was something I’d have with others for example if I’m going out or in a family gathering and I could eat a horse and not be bothered at all. Now a days there are a few things on earth that I could eat at night without getting a severe heartburn when I go to bed or gain a good solid kilo when I step on my scale.  I sound like one of those old ladies now, don’t I? 

Anyways, this is one of these posts that come off the top of my head just because I have something to share. Now, several of my friends who had been on diets by different well-known dieticians in Kuwait have told me, each on her own, about this drink for a dinner. Apparently, you should take one carton pineapple juice, KDD would do just fine, and two Kiwi fruits and blend them together. Drink the concoction and not only should it fill you up but the mix of pineapple and kiwi should keep burning calories all night even as you sleep.

I am a natural skeptic but pineapples do make me feel better when I eat them so there might be a bit of truth to that “calorie-burning-all-night” theory. I’m not saying its absolutely true or buying it and I have yet to hear an actual dietician tell me himself but the other day I was very tired and not in the mood for anything so I thought to myself why not?

It took less than 3 minutes to prepare the drink and the only problem I faced was the Kiwis. I cannot stand Kiwi fruit, it stings when you eat/drink it and its rather sour. Also, peeling it takes forever and is quite itchy but then when you blend it and drink it with pineapples it doesn’t taste too bad and definitely itches less when drank that way.

I was so tired that day I didn’t even bother pouring the juice into a proper glass, I just drank it out of the mixing cup/bowl thing. Did I lost weight the next day? I doubt that, but my stomach kept making these weird grrr sounds and I did feel lighter when I woke up. Slept soundly and with no heartburns. I’ve had that juice for dinner several times now over the course of last month and it did grow on me, not bad at all.

Therefore, dear reader, if you are not sure what to have for dinner and want something quick and not so guilty, you can try that pineapple kiwi drink thing. Perhaps it does indeed burn calories at night as you sleep, who can really tell? Have you ever heard about that before? Do you know of any actual natural calorie burning drinks or food items? Please do share.

 

 

 

A lovely Pink Picnic

It was during the last National day holiday that I was invited to join my friend and fellow blogger Pink Girl with her friends in a garden picnic. I knew she had the picnic setup by a specialised picnic service but I didn’t expect the amount of work and detail that had gone into setting it up. 

You could spot Pink’s picnic a mile away thanks to the pink roofed tent erected in the shadow of a big tree. It was a very busy day in the park on and everyone was looking at the tent and all the little things surrounding it. Quite a spectacle I’d say!

There were many, many teensy details that made a world of difference, everything was thought of for the picnickers comfort.

Well, almost everything. You see the picnic was held in the sunniest, hottest day of the year so far and the sun was literally melting us off. The blankets, which are supposedly for us to wrap ourselves in against the cold, where used as blinds to ward off the aggressive sun rays.

There were also some lovely candles that would have been amazing when lit during sunset and at night but unfortunately the picnic was supposed to end at 5:30 P.M. which was about fifteen minutes before sunset.

I had arrived late because I was out for brunch and by the time I arrived the girls were already done with lunch.

Then it was coffee and tea time! Look at the tea estekanas! Very befitting the national day spirit.

I sipped on tea while my cup of French coffee was being prepared by Shaikha on her portable flame. Thank you Shaikha it was lovely!

And there were plenty of munchies to go around with the tea and coffee. For example this “Kuwaiti” style fondue with little Kuwaiti sweets like mini rahash bites and qors oqaily cakes dipped in chocolate.

And this awesome chocolate cake made by our friend Noura that, when cut into slices, would look like the Kuwaiti flag!

The coolest, most patriotic cake I’ve ever seen!

When we had overdosed on sugar, we needed some more savoury munchies for balance! Plenty of cute little bites like these were consumed as well.

It was a lovely gathering, children were playing, girls where funny and laughing while eating and chatting, and the weather was getting cooler by the minutes.

However, since I was still wearing layers of winter clothing I think I alone had drank half of the picnic’s supply of cold water and proceeded to cold soft drinks!

However, we were rescued from the heat by a bag chockfull of ice creams and a good collection too! Which one would you have chosen?

I chose failaka! Quite refreshing in that heat!

By five o’clock, just half an hour before the picnic was over the fountain in the garden was turned on and it began giving off the most cool breeze ever!

I wish the fountain was turned on at noon. Alas, the time was up and it was time to go after a very lovely picnic. I wouldn’t personally go to all that length if I am planning a picnic myself but it was quite special and had everything you’d think of underneath that pink tent. It would be a beautiful thing to set up for, say, someone’s birthday whose lucky enough to be born in the cool winter and spring weather days!

Thank you dearest Pink for inviting me along to your picnic with your friends. For more information regarding the picnic and more pictures you can check out Pink Girl’s picnic blog post. 

The Alphonso Mangoes ARE BACK!

Just in case you didn’t get your fix already, I wanted to let you know that one of my favourite seasons is finally here and that’s the season for the one, the only, the best, the king of all mangoes, the alphonso mango season!

God I love alphonsos! There is nothing that I love more than its fragrance, it takes me straight back to the summers of my childhood. I celebrate the arrival of the Alphonso mangoes every year, put my name on a gourmet mango shippers list every year, and dream of sinking my teeth into the flesh of a jumbo alphonso mango every single year. I did get my first box of gourmet mango last year -at least- but I was told the jumbo mangoes crop was a disappointment and they might turn up eventually. I guess they didn’t.

In any case, perhaps this is the year the jumbo alphonsoes make an appearance and if they do, and I hope with all my heart they do, I will be having a second celebration. Meanwhile, I am waiting for the parrot-green five alphonsoes sitting proudly in a bowl on my dining table to turn golden yellow and I’m going to feast on them for lunch, breakfast, dinner, and snack until I have mango juice dripping from my fangs and mango pulp smeared all over my face, fingers, and special mango eating pjs I have stored for the occasion.

If you’ve never tried alphonsos then you should give them a try, and only the alphonsos! They are available by piece or per carton in TSC and you should be looking for smooth, firm parrot-green ones. Take a whiff of its scent, my entire living room now smells of alphonso mangoes, and you will know why I’m head over heels helplessly in love with those golden royalty. Welcome back, dear alphonsos, you’ve been sourly missed!

Can you Turn Film Negatives into Digital Photos?

I was cleaning out some old boxes during the weekend when I came upon a box chockfull of old photo negatives. Those little see-through strips are rarely seen these days and I suspect there is an entire generation of people who’ve never seen or used them before, thanks to the increasing usage of Digital cameras that began taking over with the start of the new millennium. In the 90′s I’ve always fantasised about having my own little darkroom where I could learn how to develop negatives and perhaps that’s why I have quite a few envelopes of negatives dating all the way to the mid-90′s.

I haven’t lost the pictures on these negative, I still have them saved in albums. However, given that negatives are quite sensitive and can be damaged or lost, I wondered if there was a way to turn the pictures on those negatives into actual digital ones that I can use on my PC. There must be someone somewhere who had invented something that does that now, aren’t there?

If old VHS tapes can be turned into DVDs, there must be a way for those pictures on the negatives to be turned into digital photographs. Some of my old pictures, developed and stacked in albums, I had scanned and used digitally but there isn’t much I could do with it plus almost always the resolution of the picture is horrible. Perhaps I could do better with pictures taken out of these negative and somehow get rid of them once and for all? I have too much junk laying around that I’d like to get rid off anyway.

Do you know of a way I could somehow transform the pictures on these negatives to digital ones? If you do, please share and thank you!

P.S. If you haven’t seen or used these before, please do share how you feel about seeing those! I’d love to know how it feels to be ancient and have used stuff that are extinct!

 

Lunch in Nino Arabella’s Beach Terrace

Nino restaurant is a timeless classic. Restaurants come and go, rise and fall, but Nino has secured a permanent spot on my top five favourite restaurants in Kuwait. When it first opened in Kuwait back in the 90′s it was the it place to be yet recently I’ve been mostly ordering my Nino fix from Talabat app -which might explain why I’ve spent almost 2000 KD’s worth of food orders as per Talabat’s records!-.

This year however saw Nino open up not one but two new branches and one of them, the Arabella branch, comes complete with a terrace with the most amazing view of beach, something that is surprisingly scarce considering the long strip of sea and beaches of Kuwait.

Exactly how gorgeous is this view of Al-Hashimi Dhow? I’ve been dining at their Arabella branch several times already and each time I take too many pictures of Al-Hashimi! Where else in Kuwait could you dine with such a view and really excellent food?

The original Nino branches always start your meal by serving you a basket of sliced freshly baked bread. In Arabella’s branch they start your meal with one loaf of bread, each time its a different kind, with a chunk of butter sprinkled with coarse sea salt. The bread that arrives is fresh out of the over and quite irresistible.

And yes it will be gone by the time your food arrives, no good at all!

The good thing about Nino, which also sometimes backfires for me, is that their menu is always and forever evolving, sometimes too rapidly. The latest changes saw my absolute favourite giant mushroom dish disappear which totally breaks my heart but also saw the introduction of Kuwait’s number one superfood, quinoa.

Nino’s new quinoa and beetroot salad is to die for. Quite tasteful and satisfying and a meal on its own. Its one of those dishes you wouldn’t want to share with other and if you’ve never tried quinoa before I strongly recommend you have your first taste of quinoa by ordering this salad. Yum!

Another new dish at Nino Arabella is the cheese fondue. A small pot of melted fontina cheese with three different dips: bread sticks, mushroom slices, and potato balls.

Though I loved the concept of the cheese fondue very much I wouldn’t necessarily order it again. The mushrooms and potato balls were OK as dips but the bread sticks were a bit boring. Also, the melted fontina cheese was a bit blah. The portion is also too big for two people dining, it might be better suited for a group of four or more.

Dipping was so much fun though!

Nino’s idea of cheesy fries.

One of my favourite pizzas in Kuwait, thought its too thin for my liking, is Nino’s funghi pizza! The giant mushroom slices on each slice is marinated with something so tangy and lemony and with the first bite I am immediately transformed into a college kid having lunch at Nino between lectures. The good old days

Nino are also famous for their sliders, I think but I’m not sure that they are the first in Kuwait to introduce little burgers or sliders in Kuwait but I’m not the burger expert. Nino also serves new chicken sliders that come nestled between two crunchy pieces of toast rather than a soft tiny bun.

They are quite huge and might do well for a main dish rather than an appetiser.

Nino’s Al Coccio pasta can now be prepared with orecchiette pasta (little ears) and is, as usual, so unbelievably good.

Why hello there!

I usually never have dessert at Nino because I’m always too full by the end of the meal and take half of what I ate home but this time sitting at their gorgeous terrace, amazing cool breeze ruffling everything in its path, happy people eating and chatting, and warm sun overhead meant we really didn’t want to leave so we ordered this thing that I do not know the name of but was resisted for a while and when all resistance failed it was devoured completely!

I love Nino. I always did and I always will. I can eat everything off the menu and still be happy and I always enjoy the swift polite service and the modern interior. My current favourite location is now the Arabella once because of the terrace and I am determined to enjoy as many meals as I can there before the weather becomes too hot to sit outside, which is sadly in about two weeks.

My other favourite dishes at Nino includes their mushroom soup, the greek salad, the ravioli, the Giant Mushroom, and their mushroom and cream mashed potato. If you are new to Kuwait, visiting, or you haven’t been to Nino in a long time I suggest you go dine at Nino’s Arabella branch. There is quite a waiting list for the outside terrace but its worth the wait! For more information and directions you can check their instagram account (@Nino_Restaurant).