The Red Polar Bear, owned by Kazem Ariaiwand, is providing kebabs on the island of Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago 300 miles off the northern tip of Norway.
With temperatures averaging 14F (-10C), the time-honoured question of "chilli sauce?" could not seem more appropriate.
Mr Ariaiwand moved to Spitsbergen after a failed asylum attempt in Norway, and set up his business in an old military van last year in Longyearbyen.
His venture has been such a success among the settlement's 2,000 population that it is challenging the more traditional fare of seal and minke whale meat.
"I've made a fair amount of money but the problem is that I don't know how to spend it," said the 48-year-old. "I came here without knowing anyone. I had nothing. I came on a plane with my backpack. Now I have many friends, almost the whole town."
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