Twistos...

These amazing tiny bread bites have become our favourite snacks, I love bread alot so I was really happy to find these. They come in two flavours, the cheese and onion & the black olives and oregano. I like the former better cause you could actually taste the soury/salty taste of feta cheese. Sara prefers the latter cause the cheese & onion have slight sweet flavour resulted from the onion. These snacks are very cheap, the small bag is sold for bz.200, and the big one for bz.400. I highly recommend these either eaten alone, or dipped in a rich creamy yougurt :)...enjoy!

SunBites Wholegrain Snacks - Oven Roasted Onion & Rosemary Flavour

25 g pack contains:
117 kcal
2.3g Sugar
5.4g Fat 0.6g of which saturated
0.3g Salt
Fibre 1.7g



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Both me and Sara liked this, the texture is quite crunchy and light and not as greasy as the ordinary crisps. These were tastier than the baked crisps. I didnt like the sweet taste (effect of the rosted onions)but at least they didnt leave a weird after taste.

Walkers Baked Crisps Mango Chilli Flavour

I've saw these crisps during Ramadan when I went to Al-Reef the Bahja brunch, I was going through one of my healthy-eating phase so I thought that this bag of "healthy" bites will be a good addition to my healthy regimen. They had two flavours, the cheese & onion and the mango chilli so decided to go with the latter (i started to imagine the sour spicy taste !). They don't sell individual packs , only a pack of six so I got that hoping that someone will be willing to share. The pack of six costs above 2 riyals.



On the pack its mentioned that they use real mango and real chilli , but let me tell you this there was nothing real or natural about the taste of these crisps. They were really bland , and had a weird aftertaste. Sara thought they were all right and recommended that I try them after Ramadan (she says fasting affect our senses!). Well I am still thinking about trying them again!

The healthy bit: a 25 g pack contains 98 kcal, 2g sugars, 2g fat (0.3g of which saturated) & 0.3g salt.

Cafe Ceramique

Date: 23rd Sep 2009

Location: Qurum, Araimi Complex

This was me and Sara's 2ND visit. We both visited the cafe last year (separately) and liked the experience and wanted to take Faisal (nephew,14 years) and Maryam (niece, 12 years) for a meal. Eid holiday was the perfect opportunity, their mother came along in addition to Raya (adoptive niece, 14 years old) . I expected the place to be packed, but it was practically empty except for 2 families.

The drinks arrived 10 minutes after ordering, me and Faisal went for Love Potion cooktail (2.2 R.O each) and both Raya and Mrayam went for Simply Smoothly (2.1 R.O each) , Raya chose strawberry and Maryam chose Mango. From the name I expected my drink to be red in color! but it was light peachy. It wasn't very sweet, which I liked. Faisal on the other hand hated that. He thought that this would good for someone who is on a diet. Maryam and Raya declared their drinks to be very "yummmmmy"!!

ToughInTheGulf 3.5 R.O

Chicken Quesadilla (3.6 R.O)

Shortly after the arrival of the drinks, the food was brought. My club sandwich -its called ToughInTheGulf no idea why! - was all right. The bread was toasted well not too hard. But I could only taste the chicken and nothing else, I would say that I've had better. The girls shared Chicken Quesadilla, and chose fries as the side dish. They liked their Quesadilla alot but thought it to be a tad spicy. They also had a comment about the serving plates, saying that they were too flat!

Caesar Salad (3.7 R.O)

Sara has been craving a Caesar Salad for a week now, so she opted for the cafe salad minus the chicken. The greens were fresh and crisp as she like them and dressing was very good. She was very disappointed with the portion size, she thought it was 2 little for that price. She also agreed with Maryam and Raya about the flat plates, saying it wasnt convenient to eat salad from a flat plate.

Shawarma Pockets (3.5 R.O)

Faisal went for Shawarma Pockets, which are basically a fancy version of the normal shawarma sandwiches. He has ordered his onions to be really cooked, as he doesnt like his onions raw. They happily complied to his request, but he was not very happy with it (although he wiped his plate clean ma sha Allah!). He thought that the shawarma we buy from Sa7teen (thats a place in Ruwi which we will review soon in sha allah) is far much better and cheaper.

Tuna Salad (3.4 R.O)

Um Faisal has chosen Tuna Salad (3.4 R.O) and liked it. I had a bit of her salad and was not impressed with the tuna in the salad. The wedges were amazing, full of taste! you could actually feel the herbs and condiments burst in your mouth as you chew. Since this is a salad the wedges were cold and a soggy, none of the crunchiness you see in the hot right-out-of-the-oven wedges.

Overall we enjoyed our time, the place was quiet and the service was quick. We liked the fact that the place is family friendly. Definitely another visit is in the plans, we all want to try our skills in painting.

Gourmet Burger Kitchen - GBK

Gourment Burger Kitchen is the latest resturant addition to city center muscat, we have been eyeing this one long before it was opened and finally, just one day before ramdhan we decided that it is time to go there after hearing alot from our friends who have been there before.

The menu offers a wide variety of items, there are beef burgers and chicken burgers in addition to vegetarian burgers. I liked how they offer two types of chicken burgers fried and grilled for the health fantics. I was a bit disappointed cause only four of the 13 beef burgers are served with cheese :(!!

A friend have been to GBK before and recommended us to try Portabella, so we went with that as our starte. Sara liked the combination of the murhsooms with rocket leaves, pesto sauce and goat cheese. She liked how the mushrooms were chewy from the inside which indicates that were not overcooked. I on the other hand, hate how "raw" they tasted, I think I wold have liked them better if there diced, grilled then combined with the other items.

Portabella (3.150 R.O)

Next to arrive was the salad, we ordered the GBK salad which was not bad. Portion should be enough for two people. I am not a big fan of salads so I only had a few bites, left Sara to hog the whole bowel. She thought the leaves were 2 bitter, and that the avocado was almost tastless and with a weird brown color.

GBK Salad ( 2.750 R.O )

The menu offers five types of fries, we opted for skin on fries. The portion was all-right for two people. they were very well cooked, crisp from the outside and very soft on the side. you can choose up to ten dippings (at an extra charge " 0.350bz") to accompany your fries. We decided to stick with good old tomato ketchup.

Skin on Fries (1.250 RO)

So it was time for burgers! I love my burger served with cheese and I wanted something different than the usual cheese burger. I ordered the Blue Cheese burger, the bluecheese was a bit overwhelming and I managed to only eat 1/4 of my burger. We both agreed that the bread was superb, soft and fluffly. We also decided that the burger on its own was tasteless, but I guess it was made this way to compliment the toppings (or so I think :\).

Blue cheese (3.650 RO)

Sara's thought her Mexican burger was too spicy for her taste, nevertheless she consumed most of her burger. She didnt like the combination of kidney beans and meat!

Mexican Burger (3.750 RO)

Every meal needs to a sweet closure, mine was the GBK original Oreo shake. It was the most amazing shake I've tasted in years. They bring it in a shaker, and pour you a full glass and leave the shaker on the table in case you wanted seconds. I finished the glass, and poured some more more for Sara to drink and still there was enough left in the shaker to fill another glass.

Oreo Shake (2.000 Ro)

Overall we had a good experience the service was good, and the waiters were really friendly and helpful. We are definitely aiming for more visits.