Operation Lahore Launched – Feb 1999
No Publicity, No Media, No Cameras, No Politicians, Movie Stars, Generals, Fanfare, Advertising, Ribbon Cutting – The Hot Spot opens quietly in sleepy T Block on a chilly February
Read More →No Publicity, No Media, No Cameras, No Politicians, Movie Stars, Generals, Fanfare, Advertising, Ribbon Cutting – The Hot Spot opens quietly in sleepy T Block on a chilly February
Read More →The Hot Spot is "Again The Hottest Spot In Town", claims Pulse Magazine.
Read More →We finally managed to find a space in Islamabad that we think suited us. An obsolete restaurant turned into a failed plant nursery known among the community as a "cursed" area for
Read More →In the Summer of 1995, Mariam, Ali and I tried the little wooden ice cream bucket with a hand crank for the first time. We had raided the local market for salt and had a bric
Read More →The Acid Test - July 1995 If you can't do justice to Vanilla, you might as well pack your bags. As the summer monsoon of 1995 set in, we set about establishing some realistic stan
Read More →The Hot Spot is interviewed during the scorching Summer of '96. They ask us what ice creams are most popular and how people are trying to beat the heat. The little chat is relaye
Read More →Well, here we are, six months after launching our project - The Hot Spot, launching another venture - The Hot Spot Newsletter. We thought that as the newspapers never publish
Read More →Pulse Magazine votes The Hot Spot as "The Best in Town" for Ice Cream. We're chuffed. Thank You. Pulse Magazine Rates The Hot Spot as "The Best in Town"
Read More →Making Strawberry Ice Cream to the level that we had set ourselves proved tricker than we imagined. There was a whole new factor working with fresh fruit like strawberries. We ab
Read More →The LRBT invited The Hot Spot to participate in their Annual Fundraiser, so we prepared as much ice cream as we could carry across town and set off for a fun day out in the great o
Read More →The Hot Spot Celebrates it's first birthday on the 17th of August We made it to One Year thanks to the support of all our original customers who used to drop into the House on Stre
Read More →The Hot Spot set up a stall for a second time at a Fundraiser organised by the Foreign Office. This was about our fourth such event, and we were slowly getting less haphazard and
Read More →Chaos, Disorder, Madness but good-humoured, old fashioned Islamabad fun 90s styleOctober 1996 - The Hot Spot sets up stall at the Foreign Office Annual Fair. One of our first cust
Read More →The Hottest Bogey In Town - The News(The ONLY Bogey in town?)
Read More →The Dawn of The Sugar Cone Era The Hot Spot is delighted to launch The Freshly Baked Sugar Cone as the Monsoon season tapers off and the humidity levels don't render everything ins
Read More →Halloween has and always will remain our favourite day on the calendar. Forever been obsessed with things that go bump in the night! Halloween has and always will remain our
Read More →As 1995 rolled around, I found myself at a crossroads with confusion and conflict being unwanted constant companions. Teaching and especially coaching sport had been an incredible
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