Meat The Cheese

Our story

It started one December in Karachi.

Meat The Cheese opened on 21 December 2017. Two cities and roughly five thousand reviews later, the argument has not changed.

Winner2019

Best Innovation Dish

APRA Awards 2019 · All Pakistan Restaurant Association · voted by the public. Awarded at the Marriott Hotel, Karachi, in December 2019.

2017

The first room

The first branch opened on 21 December 2017, in DHA Phase 6, Karachi. The mark that still runs above the door — ESTD. 2017 — dates from that year.

2019

Lahore, and an award

By 2019 there was a second room in Gulberg III. In December that year, Meat The Cheese won Best Innovation Dish at Karachi's first restaurant awards, voted for by the public.

2020

Delivery, and a stand

When the All Pakistan Restaurant Association took a public position on delivery platform commissions in September 2020, Meat The Cheese stood with them — and said the most authentic way to eat the food was still to sit down in front of it.

2026

Two rooms, rebuilt

Karachi now trades from Tipu Sultan Road in PECHS. Both rooms have been rebuilt. Between them they hold more than five thousand Google reviews and an Instagram audience of ninety-three thousand.

What has not changed

The menu still reads like two different restaurants wrote it, and that is on purpose. The beef sections are called Prime Beef and Premium Steak Selection, and every Angus cut carries its weight in grams. Everywhere else you get Thunder Thigh, Old Fella Mozzarella and Our Deep Fried Pride.

That is the whole personality in one document: absolutely serious about the meat, not remotely serious about itself.

See it for yourself on the Karachi menu or the Lahore menu, or read about the cuts and the grill.