Dhuaan BBQ — Sarwar Road (the coal pit)

The smoke is the recipe

Chef Irfan Awan spent fourteen years on the grill line of a five-star on The Mall before opening his own coal pit on Sarwar Road in 2016 — a backyard courtyard, long steel skewers, and a menu sold by the kilo the way his father sold it in Kasur. Everything goes over coal, twice marinated, and the smoke that gives the place its name is the same one customers complain they can smell from the street at 8pm sharp.

Chef Irfan Awan — Founder, salts the first skewers himself at noon

Dhuaan BBQ — Sarwar Road (the coal pit)

Sarwar Road, Cantonment, Lahore

Lahore, Punjab 54000