Multi-cuisine family restaurant (Indian, Chinese, Iranian, Continental) in Salmiya, Kuwait

Caesar's Restaurant

Sizzlers Since Seventy-Three

3.5 of 5

Long before Kuwait had chef-driven anything, it had Caesars. Lawrence D'Souza arrived from India in 1957, worked in the post and telegraph department and later as a chief accountant. He had never run a kitchen. In 1973 he and his Kuwaiti partner, Ghazi Al Abdulrazzak, opened the first Caesars in Salmiya anyway. Two more followed by 1975. The group now lists a dozen restaurants and sixteen confectioneries in Kuwait, with more across the Gulf.

The menu is the whole idea. Indian, Chinese, Iranian, Continental, plus a sizzler section for the relative who likes dinner to arrive hissing and smoking. One person orders chicken biryani, the kids want noodles, somebody insists on the sizzler, and nobody has to lose the argument. Food snobs will sniff at a menu this wide. Let them sniff. The butter chicken has fed generations of Kuwaitis and expatriates, and it is still on the card for a reason.

Go to the Salmiya branch on Hamad Al-Mubarak Street, in the town where the story started, or to the Indian and Chinese dining rooms on Abu Bakr Street in Qibla if you are downtown. Doors open at half past twelve and close at half past eleven. On the way out, stop at one of the Caesars confectioneries for the mini pizzas that Kuwaiti households have been carrying home for decades. Nothing here is trying to be fancy. It is the kind of place that outlasts fancy.

Order this

Chicken biryani, Butter chicken, A sizzler from the grill section, Mini pizzas from a Caesars confectionery on the way home

The damage

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Go

Any day from 12.30 to 23.30; dinner with a big family table is the natural fit

Find it

Souq Al Mabroor, Hamad Al-Mubarak Street, Salmiya, Kuwait

Website

caesarsgroup.net