Eating out in Qatar is easy... there are restaurants everywhere. I have tried a variety of food I have not eaten before, I have tried foods from countries and cultures I have never heard of, and all in all I have enjoyed my experiences.
The restaurants here vary from dirty looking shanty buildings, but with amazing foods, to 5 star restaurants in the hotels and top class shopping centres in and around the Doha city centre.
Although all of the above is good for the palette and varied in portions, prices and appearance, I have yet to find anywhere that has the value for money that we get from Al Banush Club.
We eat there maybe twice a month, and I it never ceases to amaze me how they can serve delicious, top quality steaks, with fries, veg, and a variety of relishes for 20 QR, this is about £3.50!!!
We regular order a 2 course meal for 2, with soft drinks (non-alcohol allowed in the restaurant) dipping bread and sauces while you wait, and we get change from 70QR...Approx £12.00!!
The food is good, and cooked to perfection, the waiters are polite, friendly and attentive.... the wait maybe longer than we expect in the UK, but we are wrong to stamp out own standards on things when we are in another country. If you want food freshly cooked and served correctly sometimes you have to have a little patience.
We have family visiting over the xmas period and I think we will be eating there regularly....it will be cheaper to take them there for a meal then it would buying in enough food to feed them all!!
Friday, 29 October 2010
Saturday, 16 October 2010
What to do on Friday evening??
So once again the weekend starts and we have Friday Champagne Lunch booked at the Marriott Hotel to celebrate a friends birthday!
That was great as usual, BUT, on this occassion, it was the after party that was worth the wait. We all headed back to Mesaieed, and (after a short afternoon nap) headed to Simon and Dawns (next door) for a "pool party". Si had managed to get his hands on a projector, and with some serious furniture moving, the book case ends up in the garden, our garden furniture ends up in their garden, we have a BIG screen movie night!
So 7pm and us ladies had patiently waited our turn, all the kids and men had been in and were now out of the pool..... in we get.. lilo chairs with cup holders (holding bottles) and for the next hour we are laughing out little heads off whilst drinking and bobbing around the pool. Only the delicious smell of BBQ was enough to tempt us out.
Then on goes the movie! projected onto the massive rear garden wall, we sit and watch "The A Team"
I dont know what you all did on Friday night, but I have to say there was very few places I would rather have been, and very few people I would rather have spent the evening with!
All in all an excellent night was had by all.... and it was enough to convince my hubbie we need a pool, so we are off shopping today!!
That was great as usual, BUT, on this occassion, it was the after party that was worth the wait. We all headed back to Mesaieed, and (after a short afternoon nap) headed to Simon and Dawns (next door) for a "pool party". Si had managed to get his hands on a projector, and with some serious furniture moving, the book case ends up in the garden, our garden furniture ends up in their garden, we have a BIG screen movie night!
So 7pm and us ladies had patiently waited our turn, all the kids and men had been in and were now out of the pool..... in we get.. lilo chairs with cup holders (holding bottles) and for the next hour we are laughing out little heads off whilst drinking and bobbing around the pool. Only the delicious smell of BBQ was enough to tempt us out.
Then on goes the movie! projected onto the massive rear garden wall, we sit and watch "The A Team"
I dont know what you all did on Friday night, but I have to say there was very few places I would rather have been, and very few people I would rather have spent the evening with!
All in all an excellent night was had by all.... and it was enough to convince my hubbie we need a pool, so we are off shopping today!!
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