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bex77 ([personal profile] bex77) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2010-12-28 11:46 am

Darul Kebab open

Heard that Darul Kebab is open. Anyone tried it?

It's the new halal Bangladeshi/Indian/Pakistani place
in the old KFC spot at the corner of Mass Ave. and Walden
in North Cambridge.

[identity profile] trowa-barton.livejournal.com 2010-12-28 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The thing that puzzles me about Darul Kebab is that it also serves burgers (based on the signs). Not entirely Middle Eastern. Not entirely American.
If, from what I've read, they are selling curry and rice dishes, then it might work. However, I don't understand the logic of competing with Annapurna.

[personal profile] ron_newman 2010-12-28 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Somewhere I recall hearing that Annapurna objected to Darul Kebab on the grounds that Darul stole Annapurna's menu.

[identity profile] yakshaver.livejournal.com 2010-12-28 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a long tradition in retail of opening a shop that sells foo within sight of an existing shop that sells foo; it works out more often than you'd think — sometimes to almost absurd lengths: there are entire blocks of Brick Lane in London where more than half the storefronts arel Indian restaurants.
Edited 2010-12-28 21:05 (UTC)

[identity profile] delahk.livejournal.com 2010-12-29 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, it can help each establishment partially b/c it gets more people to come there for that kind of food.