Food City Restaurant

Up here in Soura, right in the main market, we have been running Food City Restaurant for a long time. Srinagar is a beautiful place, but the winters get really cold and that changes how we work. We spend a lot of our time making sure the place stays warm for whoever walks in from the market. It’s not a huge place, just enough tables for the locals who live around here. We know most of our customers by name because they come in so often. Being in the main market means we see everything that happens in the street. Sometimes it's quiet, other times it’s crowded with people shopping. We don't have a big menu with things people can't pronounce. We just cook what we know how to cook. The kitchen is small but we make it work. Our chairs are a bit old now, and the menu cards are slightly worn at the edges from so many hands touching them. That’s just how it goes when you’ve been open this long. We don't have a marketing team or anyone telling us how to talk to people. We just say hello and bring the food. It’s a straightforward way to live. When the sun goes down over the market, we start cleaning up and getting ready for the next day. It’s a steady rhythm that we’ve grown used to over the years and we don't plan on changing it anytime soon.