More Chilis!
We just got back from Fehaheel, where we ate at the new Chili’s at the Al Manshar Mall. It’s always a debate – brave the traffic on Gulf Road to the Towers or brave the traffic going south to Fehaheel. Tonight we thought we would take a chance, see if the new Chili’s had opened there. We can always hit Paul’s at Al Kout as a fallback.
It was open! It’s only been open for a week, and they haven’t made any big announcements while they break in the new serving crew. The food was reliably good – we had the bottomless chips and salsa, and my husband had the Bacon Cheeseburger while I had the Chicken Ceasar – good. Quick, well served, and good.
The manager tells us another group of the Chili’s restaurants – Johnny Carino’s, Chili’s and (something else) will also be going into the Kuwait Magic Mall in 2007. Takes a little of the pressure off the Towers Chili’s.
The Rotana Hotel hasn’t opened at the Al Manshar Mall, nor has the Villa Moda, but the parking is already dismal. And the traffic in Fehaheel is nearing the same aggressiveness and gridlock as in Salmiyya. You CAN park across the busy road at Al Kout Mall and brave the crossing to Al Manshar with no cross walks or lights to help you.
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I have never heard of Al Manshar mall. But it got my attention that you said there was a Villa Moda that was gonna open there? That’s a weird area to have a Villa Moda. Hmmm. When is it gonna be fully open?
The Al Manshar Mall is across Gulf road from Al Kout Mall in Fehaheel. It is built in the same style, and there are no “repeats” in terms of stores, so I am thinking it is an extension of Al Kout. It doesn’t say when the Villa Moda will open!
I have heard it been said before that Kuwait is all for soft openings mostly because the authorities fear the public might get a mega hard on otherwise.
Is that why the openings of Villa Moda and Manshar Rotana are being kept under wraps?
The Rotana was not opened as of Friday, and didn’t look like it would open any time soon. Ditto Villa Moda. Yeh, there are some malls that opened so soft they still don’t have many customers!