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Faith Kyoumukama @martkinel

Happy new month foodies, this month has come with positive news, one of them being that we can now dine in at restaurants.

Being the holy month of Ramadan, I get to review an Iftar menu curated and delivered by Honey and Dough restaurant located on the seventh floor of One Africa Place in Westlands.

Iftar is the evening meal in which Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast at sunset.

When you order from home, you get a big box, with all the dishes safely packed inside. The food comes in beautiful and microwave friendly packaging tins, which saves you from doing the dishes.

The Honey and Dough Iftar menu have three options to choose from, the first choice consists of a whole roasted chicken and gravy, lamb curry and jeera rice, roasted baby potatoes, mushroom and chicken pie, vegetable skewers, Lavach and hummus banana bread. 

Option two has sliced roasted lamb leg with mint sauce, butter chicken, jeera rice garlic mashed potatoes and tabbouleh salad. It also has the rest of the things listed in the option except the mains. 

The third option is a vegetarian option and the mains consist of paneer tikka and mint chutney, vegetable, lasagna, roasted potatoes deconstructed falafel, vegetable skewers, including pastries similar to the other two options. The prices are Sh4,100, Sh4,300 and Sh3,900 respectively.

Your favourite foodie went with the first option. You know, when I tell you buffet overwhelms me, this particular Iftar package made me even hungrier just by looking at it.

Let me start with what I loved the most, the lamb curry. It was spicy enough and not too peppery in the mouth. Great combo when you have it with the jeera rice and mashed potatoes. 

Then there was the chicken and mushroom pie. These two ingredients work well in any dish even in pasta, so you can imagine when it is stuffed in pastry.

It’s a creamy affair in every bite, and the pie dough was also fresh and tender in the mouth.

The grilled chicken was also flavour-filled, especially because you could taste the herbs and a hint of tangy taste perhaps from the lemon used.

The chicken skin was crispy, juicy on the side and the ultimate pair for the mashed potatoes. I like how they used rosemary and time when roasting the baby potatoes.

Potatoes lend themselves so beautifully to herbs and this dish is no exception. 

Then there was hummus that shines through with glory. Hummus, in case you haven’t been paying attention to the fork and life class, is a dip or spread from cooked mashed chickpeas blended with tahini lemon juice and garlic.

It’s nutty and tangy thanks to the tahini (a condiment made from toasted sesame), with notes of bright fresh lemon and mellow garlic.

It is best served with lavach, which is also known as pita bread and this two are the perfect combo. The two are dishes from the middle east. 

Then lastly was the dessert, which was perfect after devouring such a heavy meal.

The chef at Honey and Dough has got me hooked to this banana bread such that every time I think of tea, I quickly want to have it with that specific bread.

Usually, I’m not a fan of banana bread, but this specific one is special. It was moist and delicious and the taste of banana was not too overpowering.

The fact that it was balanced in flavour made it easy to have more than one slice. That slice with a whole mug of hot chocolate will send you to a food coma. 

So, in case you are lazy to cook or want to have a different inftar experience, try a take out that will get you and family licking your fingers.