11-05-2018 03:05 PM - last edited on 11-06-2018 04:23 AM by InaS
Hello LocalGuides,
I want to share my experience from a recent meetup that I've organised - Sunday Brunching at Marriot Hotel Islamabad. It was a great experience overall. Given it was a hi-brunch so the timings of the meetup were after 1PM till 6PM - strange that usually brunches start before 12 noon but this hotel had a different timing.
Anyways, I reached around 1:30pm - excited to found out about two local guides already there. We waited for few minutes for more local guides and by 2pm we were good 10 people ^_^ We started our brunch right after that, was hungry after all 😄
Brunch dishes were countless 😄 from
10 types of pickles to 5 types of desserts to some 10 desi (Indian/Pakistani) dishes and then a separate corner for Chinese/Thai and to my surprise there was Japanese on the menu too. I inquired about this variety of menu - and the head chef said we cater to many foreigners and because of that we included every bit of food items 😄
Moving forward there was a variety of drinks, desserts - there was station where you can get you omelette made in front of you too. While I was taking pictures, I found out that there was a citizen from Canada sitting in the area, he asked me about the meetup and turned out he was a local guide too. I offered him to join. He told me how he use Maps in his country and how he reviews the places and especially businesses - he told me how he told his home construction workers to work well and your company will get a good review from my side 😄
Anyways the food was delicious. We took a lot of photos - I also talked to the marketing manager Mr. Zeeshan and asked him about hotel Google business page - he said we have added all information but don't use it frequently - I motivated him to get it started, he was convinced 🙂
Let me share few pictures below. All photos link
All in all a good meetup. Hoping to plan more 🙂
11-05-2018 02:26 PM - edited 11-05-2018 02:51 PM
Hello LocalGuides,
I want to share my experience from a recent meetup that I've organised - Sunday Brunching at Marriot Hotel Islamabad. It was a greta experience overall. Given it was a hi-brunch so the timings of the meetup were after 1PM til 6PM - strange that usually brunches start before 12noon but this hotel had a different timing.
Anyways, I reached around 1:30pm - excited to found out about two local guides already there. We waited for few minutes for more local guides and by 2pm we were good 10 people ^_^ We started our brunch right after that, was hungry after all 😄
Brunch dishes were countless 😄 from
10 types of pickles to 5 types of desserts to some 10 desi (Indian/Pakistani) dishes and then a separate corner for Chinese/Thai and to my surprise there was Japanese on the menu too. I inquired about this variety of menu - and the head chef said we cater to many foreigners and because of that we included every bit of food items 😄
Moving forward there was a variety of drinks, desserts - there was station where you can get you omelette made infront of you too. While I was taking pictures, I found out that there was a citizen from Canada sitting in the area, he asked me about the meetup and turned out he was a local guide too. I offered him to join. He told me how he use Maps in his country and how he reviews the places and especially businesses - he told me how he told his home construction workers to work well and your company will get a good review from my side 😄
Anyways the food was delicious. We took alot of photos - I also talked to the marketing manager Mr. Zeeshan and asked him about hotel Google business page - he said we have added all information but don't use it frequently - I motivated him to get it started, he was convinced 🙂
Let me share few pictures below. All photos link
All in all a good meetup. Hoping to plan more 🙂
11-05-2018 03:09 PM
Wow congratulations @AIMAN_SAEED for a successful food crawl. It's 01.08 am here and after watching the pictures, I m feeling hungry again 😂😂😂
Anyways keep it up.
Thank you for share
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11-05-2018 03:10 PM
Thanks @KashifMisidia
It was hard for me too to write this Recap with yummy photos 😄
11-06-2018 02:46 AM - edited 11-06-2018 04:24 AM
Hi @AIMAN_SAEED,
I really like brunching :)! Thank you for sharing your photos and experience with us. The food looks so delicious, and I am happy that you enjoyed it.
Keep up sharing!
I changed the topic label to Meet-ups as it fits better there.
11-06-2018 03:59 AM
Hi @AIMAN_SAEED,
By the way, I merged your post with the previous one as there are related to the same topic.
11-06-2018 05:42 AM - edited 11-06-2018 05:52 AM
Thanks @InaS🙂
I got confused yesterday while posting, but thanks for clearing this ^_^
11-08-2018 01:30 AM
@AIMAN_SAEED wow . just feel hungry . thanks for share
11-08-2018 01:56 AM
@MahabubMunna visit Pakistan. . Here we will celebrate your 100th meetup together here Islamabad 🙂
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