The Most Popular Iftar Dishes at MyLahore (And Why Everyone Loves Them)

News 05 Mar 2026 By Creative Marketing

There is a moment just after Maghrib when the meal finally feels like the point of the day. The fast is broken, the dates are gone, and everyone settles in for the food they have been thinking about since Suhoor. What lands in front of them matters. Not just for taste, but for how it sits.

At MyLahore, certain dishes return every Ramadan without needing to be pushed. Not because of a seasonal menu or special promotion, but because they are genuinely what people reach for when the fast breaks. This is a rundown of the most popular iftar dishes at MyLahore and what keeps them coming back.

If you want to understand the tradition behind the meal before diving into the food, our guide on what is iftar covers the occasion properly.

Why Certain Dishes Work So Well for Iftar

Breaking a fast is not the same as a regular dinner. The body has been without food for hours and what it wants is something warming and familiar, without being overwhelming from the first bite. The best iftar food understands this rhythm, building from light and sharp at the start through to something rich and grounding by the end.

At MyLahore, the menu has always been built around communal eating, and that suits iftar well. Food shared across a table hits differently when the fast has just broken. That connection between eating and togetherness is something we explore in our post on the blessing of eating together, and it runs through every dish below.

The Starters Everyone Reaches For

The opening course after a fast needs to wake the palate without overloading it. These three earn their place consistently across all MyLahore restaurants throughout Ramadan.

Meat Samosa Chaat

Few dishes do as much in a single bowl. A crispy mutton mince samosa is loaded with chickpeas, potato, onions, cucumber, tomato and spicy yoghurt sauce, then finished with imli sauce and crunchy papri. The crunch, the tang, the gentle heat, and the cool yoghurt all land at once. It is sharp and satisfying in exactly the way the first course after a fast should be, and it is consistently one of the most ordered items across every location during Ramadan.

Flaming Chops

Chargrilled marinated mutton chops on the bone, with the kind of smoky finish that only comes from a real flame grill. There is nothing complicated about why these work. The char, the meat, the heat from the grill — after a long fast it is exactly what the appetite is calling for. Most tables order these while the mains are still being decided, and they are usually gone before the naan arrives.

Onion Pakora

Onions, spinach and potato in a spiced batter, deep fried until golden. The Onion Pakora is vegetarian, works alongside mint sauce or chutney, and fills the gap between sitting down and the main course landing without stealing anyone’s appetite. Understated compared to the chaat or the chops, but it disappears just as fast. For more on how Ramadan eating builds across the month, our post on the final 10 days of Ramadan is worth a read.

The Main Courses That Define the Meal

Once Maghrib is observed and everyone is back at the table, this is where the evening properly settles. These three mains are the ones people come back for year after year.

Lahori Chicken Karahi

Chicken thigh cooked with onions, tomatoes, garlic, chillies and a desi spice blend, finished with coriander, ginger and a touch of cream. Rich without being heavy, spiced without being aggressive. The Lahori Chicken Karahi is probably the dish that best represents what MyLahore does well — a recipe that could easily be simplified but never is, because the attention to the cook is what makes it taste the way it does.

Eat it with fresh naan, pass it around, and take your time with it. That is exactly how it is meant to go.

Lamb Nihari

A slow cooked lamb shank in a rich spiced broth, topped with ginger, coriander, fried onions and chillies, served with lime. Subject to availability, and on the nights it is available, it does not hang around.

Nihari has deep roots in South Asian culture as an early morning dish, but it has long found a home at iftar too. Hours of slow cooking build a broth that nothing else can replicate. With bread to pull apart and dip, it is the kind of meal that does exactly what iftar food should do.

Dum Biryani

Seasoned basmati rice with potatoes and MyLahore’s biryani spice blend, baked under a golden bread crust and served with raita or curry sauce. The crust is as much part of the experience as the rice underneath it, and the portion size makes it a natural centrepiece for the meal.

For more on the full range of biryani options at MyLahore, our Ramadan dishes guide covers them in detail.

The Drinks Worth Ordering

Two drinks appear on almost every table throughout Ramadan and both are worth knowing about.

The Mango Lassi is cooling, gently sweet, and cuts through spiced food well. A traditional Asian mango yoghurt drink available as a glass or a jug, it is the most ordered drink of the month at MyLahore and it earns that every time.

For the end of the meal, the Doodh Patti Chai takes over. Yorkshire tea brewed with milk and cardamom, it is warm, aromatic, and the natural close to a long iftar evening. Order it with dessert rather than after, and it will make both better.

Speaking of dessert, our post on 6 desserts that hit different after iftar at MyLahore covers the full sweet menu from Falooda to Molten Cake.

Find Your MyLahore This Ramadan

All MyLahore restaurants are open throughout Ramadan for dine-in and collection. You can find us in:

Delivery is available through our Bradford delivery location. Our FAQs answer most practical questions before you visit, and the team is always reachable through our contact section.

If you are in Birmingham and planning an evening after Taraweeh, our post on where to eat after Taraweeh prayers in Birmingham is the one to read. For Bradford and Leeds specifically, our posts on iftar at MyLahore Bradford and where to break your fast in Leeds go into the local detail. More about who we are and where we started is on our story.