The Babel menu writes the weight of the grill beside its name. That is a rare habit on a Kuwaiti menu, and it is what makes comparison possible at all.
Every grilled item comes two ways: a plate at 175 grams, and a “platter” at 250 grams. The increase in weight is identical in every case: forty-three per cent. The increase in price is not.
Three items, three outcomes
- Shish taouk: 4.600 for the small plate, 4.950 for the large. Seven and a half per cent more for forty-three per cent more weight.
- Kebab: 4.950 against 6.950. Roughly forty per cent more.
- Grilled meat: 5.950 against 7.750. Thirty per cent more.
The sum per hundred grams
Divide the price by the weight and it comes clearer:
- Shish taouk: about 2.600 per hundred grams on the small, dropping to 2.000 on the large.
- Kebab: about 2.800 either way — the difference all but disappears.
- Grilled meat: 3.400 on the small, 3.100 on the large.
So the larger plate saves far more on the taouk than it does on the kebab.
The fish counter prices by the kilo
Alongside the grills, the menu sells fish by weight rather than by plate: zubaidi at 26 dinars a kilo, sea bass at 18, small hamour at 17, prawns at 23, while sultan ibrahim is eight and a half. So zubaidi is three times sultan ibrahim per kilo.
What to measure it against
For a fixed picture: hummus at 2.400, mutabbal at 2.300, fattoush at 2.950, and fries at 1.950.
Photo: a mixed grill with potatoes on a wooden board. By Ceeseven, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Source: the Babel Kuwait menu published on its official site, babelkwt.com.
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