01Lamb Seekh Kebab
£6Minced lamb, pressed onto skewers and stuck to the tandoor wall.

Love at First Bite
Kilo karahis cooked to order in a heavy iron wok. Whole chargha, fried or steam-roasted. Nihari that started the night before. Levenshulme, seven days a week — hours below.
Since
Lahore
Open
7 days · hours vary
Karahi
By the kilo
Kitchen
Chefs from Lahore
The short version


We brought the city.
Lahore does not really do subtle. It is a city that eats in the street until two in the morning, that argues about which karahi is the real one, that puts a whole chicken in front of you and expects you to get on with it.
That is the food we cook in Levenshulme. Our chefs are from Lahore, and they cook the way they cooked at home — a kilo at a time, in a heavy wok, when you ask for it. No sauce base sitting in a pot. No shortcut into a bowl.
People tell us it is the closest thing to Lahori karahi they have found in this country. We would rather you came and decided that yourself.
90%
Would recommend
600+
Reviews and counting
1kg
The standard karahi
Clay oven
Kebabs and tikka go onto the wall of a working tandoor. Chargha meets hot oil. Nothing here is finished in a microwave.
To order
Karahi is not batch-cooked and held. Your kilo starts when you order it, which is why it takes a little while — and why it tastes like it does.
By the kilo
The menu is built around the middle of the table: kilo karahis, jugs of lassi, platters and tawas. Eating alone here is possible but slightly beside the point.
Certified
Everything on the menu is halal, all day, without exception. There is a prayer room on site and parking at the rear.
What to order
The full menu runs to well over a hundred dishes. If it is your first time, these are the five the kitchen would put in front of you.
The whole bird
from £8A whole chicken, marinated to the bone, then either dropped into hot oil until the skin cracks, or steam-roasted in the degh until it falls apart. It is not a portion. It arrives whole and you take it apart with your hands.
from £8Find it on the menuSold by the kilo
£27–£35 per kgNo pre-made sauce, no holding pot. A kilo of meat goes into a heavy iron wok when you order it, and comes out when the oil separates and rises. Tomato, chilli, butter or boneless — the difference is real, not a menu name.
£27–£35 per kgFind it on the menuBalochistan, not Punjab
£24–£30 per kgThe karahi with no tomato in it. Yoghurt, cream, green chilli and white pepper build a pale, mild, deeply aromatic sauce — a Brohi dish cooked Balochistan-style. Order it once and you will spend a while explaining it to people.
£24–£30 per kgFind it on the menuFor the whole table
£60One griddle carrying chicken legs, lamb chops, wings and seekh kebab, with two curries, rice and chips alongside. It is the order you place when the table has stopped being a table and started being an occasion.
£60Find it on the menuStarted the night before
£10–£12Nihari, haleem, paya, hareesa, Chinioti kunna. Nothing here can be hurried. These are the dishes Lahore eats early in the morning and late at night, and they taste of hours, not minutes.
£10–£12Find it on the menu




The clay oven
Everything on this rail meets flame before it meets a plate. Keep scrolling to move along it.

Bring people
Almost nothing on this menu is designed to be eaten alone. The karahi comes by the kilo, the lassi comes by the jug, and the tawa arrives on a griddle the size of the table. Come hungry, and come with people.

For the whole table
One griddle: chicken legs, lamb chops, wings, seekh kebab, two curries, rice and chips.

The whole grill
Fish, seekh kebab, lamb chops, lamb tikka, chicken tikka, chicken leg, malai boti, wings and samosa.

The middle of the table
A full kilo, cooked to order. Lamb or chicken; tomato, chilli, butter or boneless.
What people say
Probably the only authentic Lahori-style karahi in the UK. The mixed grill is fantastic.
One of the best karahi chicken dishes in the country. We drive over just for it.
Best Pakistani restaurant in Manchester — the mutton karahi is outstanding.
Around 90% of roughly 600 reviewers say they would recommend us. Reviews are paraphrased from public listings.
Find us
Address
824 Stockport roadOpening hours
Opens today at 12pm
Book ahead on busy weekends.
Good to know



824 Stockport road sits on the Levenshulme stretch of the A6, ten minutes south of the city centre, with parking at the rear and Levenshulme station a short walk away.