The hardest part of any group dinner isn’t the food. It’s agreeing on where to go. Someone in the group is eating clean this month. Someone else has been thinking about fried chicken since Tuesday. A third person only ever wants Asian food. You spend twenty minutes in the group chat, settle on a place that half-satisfies everyone, and the friend who compromised brings it up for the rest of the night.
Verte is built to skip that argument. It’s one venue in Banani with three separate kitchens inside it, so a table of people who want completely different things can all order what they actually feel like. Nobody compromises, because nobody has to.
What “three brands, one roof” means
Verte houses three food brands in a single space, each with its own menu and its own style of cooking:
- Eat Green is the healthy side: lighter recipes for the friend tracking what they eat or just in the mood for something fresh.
- Fat Duck covers Pan-Asian, pulling flavours across the region for the person who came in wanting noodles, rice bowls, or something with heat.
- Gourmet Food Company (GFC) handles the indulgent end: elevated fast food for when you want comfort food done properly rather than a salad.
You sit at one table and order across all three. The clean-eating friend gets their bowl from Eat Green, the fried-chicken friend orders from GFC, the Asian-food friend goes to Fat Duck, and the food all arrives at the same table. That’s the whole idea, and it removes the single biggest source of friction in planning a group meal.
Who this actually works for
Verte suits the groups that are usually hardest to feed.
Mixed dietary needs are the obvious one. If your group has a vegetarian, someone avoiding heavy food, and two people who want exactly the opposite, three kitchens solve it cleanly.
It also works for the catch-up where people are arriving at different times and in different moods. Nobody’s locked into a set menu or a single cuisine, so a late arrival can order whatever they want without holding up the table.
Birthdays and casual celebrations fit too, especially for a group that can never settle on one type of restaurant. Instead of picking a place that’s a slight letdown for everyone, you pick the one place where each person gets their first choice.
The setting helps. Verte is themed as a jungle, which gives the room more character than the average Banani restaurant and makes it an easy backdrop for photos without anyone trying.
How to plan it
Pick your time first. Verte is open daily from noon to 10:30 PM. Weekend lunches and early evenings fill up with groups, so if you’re bringing more than four people, message ahead to make sure they can seat you together. A table that’s split across the room defeats the point of going as a group.
Decide before you arrive whether food is the whole plan or just the start. That single decision changes how you schedule the rest of the day, because Verte connects to more than dinner.
Turning dinner into a full outing
Verte runs Vortex, a jungle-themed gaming zone under the same group, and it’s the easiest way to stretch a meal into a proper outing. After eating, the group can move on to PS5, billiards, foosball, or air hockey instead of the night ending the moment the plates are cleared.
There’s also The Void, a private movie lounge you can book, which works well for a birthday or any group that wants the evening to keep going somewhere a little more private. If your plan is dinner plus a film, reserve the lounge in advance rather than counting on it being free.
For a group that’s bad at agreeing on anything, this is the useful part: you can build a whole evening that covers food, games, and a movie without leaving the building or running another round of negotiation in the group chat.
The practical details
Verte is on the ground floor of AWR NIB Tower, House 99, Block C, Road 11, Banani, Dhaka-1213. Hours are noon to 10:30 PM, Sunday through Saturday. For bookings, larger groups, or to reserve the movie lounge, call +8801740449950 or email verte.jungle@gmail.com.
Bring the friends who can never pick a place. For once, you won’t need to.