Lahore, eaten in person.
Every restaurant in Shoonkria has been visited, rated out of 10 and filmed by Ali Rehman, Food Critic of the Year 2025. Watch the review, check tonight's card discount, plan a day of eating, and go.
Lahore first. Karachi, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad and Multan are next.
Lahore, eaten in person
Food Critic of the Year 2025 · every place visited, rated and filmed
ABrand partners
Paid partnershipReviewed by Ali
See allNot a directory. A critic's notebook you can navigate.
Shoonkria is built on twelve years of eating around Lahore on camera. Nothing is listed because it paid to be listed, and nothing is published until Ali has confirmed it himself.
See the review, not a stock photo
Every place opens with Ali's video from the table: what he ordered, what it cost, and whether he'd go back. The full catalogue, back to 2019, is in the app.
One honest number out of 10
A single score and a one-line verdict per place, alongside the Google rating so you can see where they disagree. Must visits are marked. So are the skips.
From the couch to the table
Open now, near me, late night, budget. Directions in Google Maps, call or WhatsApp the restaurant, and the best bank-card discount at that table tonight.
1,389 reviews. Every one filmed at the table.
Search by dish, area or cuisine, and the app searches the captions and the spoken words in every reel, so "siri paye near Data Darbar" finds the right stall.
This might be the best Nihari I've had in twelve years of reviewing food in Lahore.OLD LAHORE · 4:32
The seekh kebab here has a smokiness you just can't replicate at home.GULBERG · 6:15
₨70 for the best lassi in Pakistan. No contest.OLD LAHORE · 2:48
Open since 1947. 79 years of the same recipe. That's not just food, that's Lahore.OLD LAHORE · 5:10
Breakfast to dessert, curated by Ali Rehman.
Pick how many days you have and which areas you want to eat in, or let Ali choose. The trail builds one zone per day so you're never crossing the city twice, five stops in order, none repeated.
- Stops scored by Ali's rating, Google rating, opening hours and distance from the previous stop
- Mark a stop eaten, swap it for the next-best, or add a concert or festival into the day
- One tap opens the whole route in Google Maps, and a share link sends the trail to friends
Trail · Day 1 of 3
Old Lahore · 5 stopsWhich card gets you the best deal tonight?
Shoonkria collects the dining offers from Pakistan's major banks in one place and shows the best one on every place page, so you know before you sit down which card to put on the table.
- Filter by your bank, your area, or only places Ali has reviewed
- Live validity and minimum spend, not a screenshot from last month
- Offers at reviewed places are marked, so a discount never has to mean a compromise
Card discounts
633 live offers · LahoreOffers shown are examples. Live data covers HBL, Alfalah, Meezan, MCB, UBL and more.
What's on in Lahore this month.
Concerts, festivals, exhibitions and heritage walks from the city's ticketing platforms, on a 30-day strip. Tap a day to see what's on, then add an event straight into your trail and the day re-plans itself around it, clashes and all.
- Today first, with time and ticket price up front
- Category chips for food, music, culture and workshops
- No trail for that date yet? Ali plans one around the event
September
Today + next 30 daysAli Rehman, the Desi Lahori Food Ambassador.
Award-winning food critic, TEDx speaker and the first content creator to receive the Government of Punjab's Tourism Excellence Award. Ali has spent more than a decade eating his way through Lahore's dhabas, food streets and dining rooms on camera, and Shoonkria is that archive, organised so you can use it: searchable, mapped, scored, and updated every time a new review is filmed.
Reach Lahore's most food-obsessed audience.
Placements in Shoonkria are always labelled, always separate from the reviews, and never change a score. That's what makes them worth buying: the audience trusts the app, so it trusts what the app shows them.
Brand partner tiles
Two fixed, permanent tiles at the top of the home screen. They never rotate and never share the slot. Your wordmark, your colour, your line.
Home screen · fixedSponsored banners
Full-width creatives that rotate on the home, deals, trail and events screens. Booked by the week, with impressions and clicks reported per booking.
Every screen · rotatingFeatured placements
For restaurants Ali has already reviewed: a featured card in the home strip and a boost in the area and cuisine filters. Your score stays exactly what it was.
Reviewed places onlyPlacements are booked Monday to Sunday, one week at a time or longer. Tell us the brand and the dates and we'll send the rate card.
Request the rate cardLahore first. Then the rest of Pakistan.
Reviews stay Lahore's for now, because that's where Ali eats. Card discounts and events are being scoped city by city.
Good to know
Are restaurants paying to be in Shoonkria?
No. A place is in the app because Ali ate there and filmed it. Brand partners, sponsored banners and featured placements are sold separately, always labelled, and never change a score or a verdict.
Is every review really by Ali?
Yes. Every reel is one of Ali's own, and nothing publishes until he has confirmed the place, the score and the verdict himself. The AI only helps transcribe and file.
What does the score mean?
It's Ali's rating out of 10 for that visit, with a one-line verdict. You'll see the Google rating next to it so you can judge for yourself where they differ. Must visits are flagged; so are the ones he'd skip.
Do I need an account?
No. Browse, search, plan a trail and check discounts without signing in. Your trail progress is saved on your device. Sign-in is only for rating and reviewing places yourself.
Where do the card discounts come from?
From the banks' own dining-offer portals and public deal listings, refreshed on a schedule and matched to the places in the app. Always check the offer terms at the restaurant.
When does the app launch?
The web beta is open now. iOS and Android builds are next, and this page will carry the store links the day they're live.
Bring Ali's Lahore with you.
Free on iOS and Android soon. Try the web beta on your phone today, and add it to your home screen.