Rooftop Dining in Gulberg, Lahore: A Guide to Darbar Rooftop

Gulberg has no shortage of places to eat. MM Alam Road is lined with restaurants and Liberty Market is full of food stalls. What a rooftop adds is air and a view. You sit above the traffic, the lights of the city spread out around you, and on a cool evening nobody is in a hurry to leave the table.

Darbar Rooftop at a glance

• On the roof of Regency Suites Hotel, 48 Balouch Rd, Gulberg III, Lahore 54660.
• Seating for 300 guests indoors and 150 outdoors on the open roof.
• A 4,000 sq ft kitchen with 35 chefs, and a see-through kitchen where you can watch your food being made.
• A live BBQ grill.

What to order

The menu is built around the dishes Lahore is known for. Karahi comes in half and full sizes, so two people can share a half and a family can take a full. There is handi, and BBQ straight off the live grill. For a table of four to six there is a family platter. If someone in your group wants something simpler, there are pizzas and burgers too.

When to go

Breakfast runs from 7:30 am to noon, lunch from 12:30 to 4 pm, and dinner from 6 to 11 pm (10:30 pm on Fridays). The open roof is at its best on winter evenings, roughly November to March, when Lahore cools down after sunset. In summer, the indoor hall is the comfortable choice.

Booking a table

Weekends fill up, so it is worth booking ahead. Send a WhatsApp to 0309 1492999 with the day, the time, how many people are coming and whether you would like to sit indoors or on the roof.

Family dinners and celebrations

The same rooftop hosts birthdays, mehndis, walimas and full weddings, with 300 guests indoors and 150 under the open sky. Wedding menus start from PKR 1,999 plus tax per guest. See weddings at Darbar Rooftop and rooftop birthday parties.

Staying the night

Darbar Rooftop sits on top of Regency Suites Hotel, so out-of-town guests can take the lift down to bed. Regency is a four-star hotel of 18 suites: Home Away From Home. See the suites and rates.

Darbar Eats also delivers within 3 km of Gulberg. For the full restaurant page, see Darbar Rooftop.