Imran Ali Mookhi grins as the smoked beef kabob arrives at the table.
Executive chef Mookhi, who’s also behind Tumbi in Santa Monica, first arrived in Los Angeles from Karachi at age 17 with no plans — only a vague idea that he’d eventually apply to college to study engineering.
“I’d go to Italian restaurants and French restaurants and see the food presented so beautifully that you literally don’t want to even touch it,” says Mookhi. “And I’d think, how come Indian food and Pakistani food can’t be that way? It’d drive me nuts.”Khan Saab’s pani puri is served with the garbanzo-potato-filled puffs on top of shot glasses of mint-tamarind water.
In addition to the kabobs, popular in Afghan cuisine, the menu includes Indian and Pakistani street foods like pani puri and keema pav , as well as dishes like chicken karahi and biryani that require at least 20 minutes of prep time so they can make it by scratch per order. The curries include mutton korma , chola bhatura and the Kashmiri dish lamb rogan josh. Mookhi emphasizes that he got the recipe for their dal lala mussa straight from Lalamusa, Pakistan.
They also feature an alcohol-free bar led by mixologists Ahmad Hosseini and Luis Valencia. It includes mocktails like a mango mojito, nigroni and a Bloody Patahni . Artist Naeem painted the mural in Khan Saab’s Fullerton restaurant. It depicts a movie poster from a classic Pakistani film, as well as locals on the bustling streets of Karachi, where Khan Saab chef Imran Ali Mookhi grew up.
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