Butler's Chocolate Cafe
An evening out with my buddy Sadiya Khursheed, to celebrate her freedom from office we decided to go to Butler’s Chocolate Café. It inaugurated last month and since then we’d been there twice hoping to find the time to actually come back and try the chocolate. With our routine it’s hard to get out and indulge in parties of the sort. We have to wait for an occasion to celebrate; we need a reason to make ourselves happy. Freedom from the office is just one of those reasons to celebrate.
So we walk into a very crowded place, mostly youngsters out with friends, colleagues or some very young people out with their parents. We were guided to a corner, where we settled down and requested for a menu coz in the rush of things the attendant forgot to hand them to us. We looked thru it and decided to order their specialties potato wedges with sour cream and Butler’s Club sandwich along with a vanilla milkshake and a strong cappuccino.
After we ordered we decided to catch up on some stories of the time we’d been away, and ended up screaming at each other coz either of us could not hear the other in all the noise. While we waited for our food to come we had our next weekend planned for an outing too. We were interrupted by several calls some on her cell and plenty on mine. Finally I saw an attendant come towards us with a vanilla milkshake and the potato wedges. Since we both were hungry we got ourselves busy.
The potato wedges were just as ordinary as the ones that I make at home, so I really don’t know what all the hype was about? If they call it their specialty, mine should be novelty, since mine are far better. The sour cream didn’t even taste sour; it was so ordinary that Sadia actually thought it was Garlic Mayo. Finally our club sandwich arrived served with Lay’s French Cheese crisps and from the looks of it coleslaw. The cheese in the sandwich had a weird bitter taste which didn’t go away until I went back home and had ‘Karachi University’s Aloo ke Samosay’.
Since I have a special inclination towards club sandwiches I have tried one in almost every place I go to. And if I have to rate them Butler’s special club sandwich would be hitting the bottom of the list. Really the club sandwich of Sports Café (tiny cafeteria in Rashidiya owned by South Indians very unknown except to a few who made it their life’s aim to find ‘acha chai wala café’s’ in Dubai) is far better.
The vanilla milkshake was nice I actually referred to it as ‘heavens’. But to Sadiya’s disappointment the cappuccino came in very strong, so strong that she had to add 3 sachets of sugar to it. And in memory of our Lahore trip she requested for brown sugar. At the end we also got a complimentary milk chocolate wrap; importantly even their chocolate didn’t give me the satisfaction of chocolate, really I think Cadbury is far more fulfilling that this one.
Fortunately I didn’t have to remember the event by the food we had or I would have cried over it. It was the company of the person I went out with which was worth far more. So thanks a lot Sadiya…
So we walk into a very crowded place, mostly youngsters out with friends, colleagues or some very young people out with their parents. We were guided to a corner, where we settled down and requested for a menu coz in the rush of things the attendant forgot to hand them to us. We looked thru it and decided to order their specialties potato wedges with sour cream and Butler’s Club sandwich along with a vanilla milkshake and a strong cappuccino.
After we ordered we decided to catch up on some stories of the time we’d been away, and ended up screaming at each other coz either of us could not hear the other in all the noise. While we waited for our food to come we had our next weekend planned for an outing too. We were interrupted by several calls some on her cell and plenty on mine. Finally I saw an attendant come towards us with a vanilla milkshake and the potato wedges. Since we both were hungry we got ourselves busy.
The potato wedges were just as ordinary as the ones that I make at home, so I really don’t know what all the hype was about? If they call it their specialty, mine should be novelty, since mine are far better. The sour cream didn’t even taste sour; it was so ordinary that Sadia actually thought it was Garlic Mayo. Finally our club sandwich arrived served with Lay’s French Cheese crisps and from the looks of it coleslaw. The cheese in the sandwich had a weird bitter taste which didn’t go away until I went back home and had ‘Karachi University’s Aloo ke Samosay’.
Since I have a special inclination towards club sandwiches I have tried one in almost every place I go to. And if I have to rate them Butler’s special club sandwich would be hitting the bottom of the list. Really the club sandwich of Sports Café (tiny cafeteria in Rashidiya owned by South Indians very unknown except to a few who made it their life’s aim to find ‘acha chai wala café’s’ in Dubai) is far better.
The vanilla milkshake was nice I actually referred to it as ‘heavens’. But to Sadiya’s disappointment the cappuccino came in very strong, so strong that she had to add 3 sachets of sugar to it. And in memory of our Lahore trip she requested for brown sugar. At the end we also got a complimentary milk chocolate wrap; importantly even their chocolate didn’t give me the satisfaction of chocolate, really I think Cadbury is far more fulfilling that this one.
Fortunately I didn’t have to remember the event by the food we had or I would have cried over it. It was the company of the person I went out with which was worth far more. So thanks a lot Sadiya…
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