Slate Eatery: Good Things Come In Small Packages
Small, compact restaurants with a conventional menu seem to be all the rage in Lahore. Dotting various city spots, from densely to sparsely populated areas, these restaurants offer diners a casual, modest ambiance with all the focus on the food. Whether colleagues taking a lunch break, friends catching up, professional meetings or a date, such restaurants-cum-cafes do away with the compulsion of ordering an entire meal for a customer to get a table. Slate is one such café-restaurant that opened up earlier this year in the rapidly expanding and easily the go-to area for any new food business popping up, Defence Phase 6, far away from the several clusters of cafes and restaurants of Gulberg and Defence Y and Z blocks. The light grey walls match the black plastic chairs and light brown and black tables, giving off a slick, minimalist, yet chic vibe. During the day, the panelled glass wall helps light up both the ground floor and the mezzanine. A friend and I st