Few cities do rooftop dining with a view like Lahore. In the old city, terraces look straight across at the domes of the Badshahi Mosque and the walls of the Lahore Fort; out in Gulberg and DHA, sleek rooftops trade on city lights and cool winter evenings.
These are the rooftop restaurants Lahore rates highest — for a sunset dinner, a family occasion or simply the best view in town.
Monal Lahore
Lahore's branch of the famous Monal, a large rooftop restaurant at the Gulberg roundabout with city views, live music and a generous buffet of Pakistani dishes and BBQ, plus a popular hi-tea. It's pricier than most, but the setting is the draw.
Baranh
A Punjabi restaurant on Gulberg's Main Boulevard with a desi-meets-modern setting and rooftop seating, known for tawa chicken, mutton karahi, makhni handi, cheese kebabs and gol gappa shots, plus a hi-tea.
Howdy Rooftop MM Alam
The MM Alam Road rooftop branch of the Howdy diner, known for beef and mutton burgers, steaks — including bone marrow steak — curly fries and charcoal-grilled chicken. It's busy and lively, so service can slow at peak times.
Haveli Restaurant
A rooftop restaurant in the restored Haveli Khalil Khan on Fort Road Food Street, with some of the best views in Lahore over the Badshahi Mosque and Lahore Fort, plus live music, BBQ platters and desi dishes. It gets very busy, and parking is valet only.
Lahori Barbecue Rooftop
A rooftop barbecue restaurant on MM Alam Road with a fireplace and live music, known for an economical dinner buffet and hi-tea, butter chicken and juicy seekh kebabs. Service can be slow at dinner.
Mystique Restaurants Lahore
An elegant fine-dining restaurant in Gulberg's L Block with a rooftop and live music, known for chicken cordon bleu, pepper and parmesan chicken, steaks and mojitos. It's on the pricey side, but the setting and service make it a special-occasion favourite.
Bistro 201
Reliably excellent rooftop dining in Lahore.
Banera Rooftop Restaurant
A rooftop family restaurant on Multan Road at Thokar Niaz Baig with buffets, hi-tea, BBQ, karahi and live music. Reviews are mixed on service and on whether the hi-tea runs every day.
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A steakhouse on Gulberg's Main Boulevard with rooftop seating, known for its range of beef steaks, surf and turf and roasted bone marrow, plus strawberry mojitos and cheesecake.
Poet Rooftop Garden
A two-storey restaurant at the Lake City roundabout with a rooftop garden and fireplace, serving buffets upstairs and à la carte below — BBQ platters, mutton kunna and mutton karahi — with a popular iftar buffet. Opinions on value are mixed.
Andaaz Restaurant
A rooftop restaurant on Fort Road in the Walled City with sweeping views of the Badshahi Mosque, serving Pakistani food — malai boti, daal makhni, palak paneer — with live music. Service can be slow; the view is the draw.
The Skye Restaurant
A buffet restaurant on the 18th floor of Indigo Heights on Noor Jahan Road, Gulberg, with sweeping city views, a fireplace and live music, known for its dinner buffet of 60+ dishes, its mutton dishes and hi-tea.
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