Fenêtre Sur Kaboul — Restaurant in Montreal

I generally don’t believe negative Google reviews are all that effective but I truly regret my experience. When I arrived, it seemed like I had picked a good place because it was quite popular on a Saturday Night around 7:30 PM.

We were promptly seated and we were given the menu. We ordered the homemade yogurt, the bread, the ravioli with the lentils, and a kofte dish.

The ravioli with the lentils came out rather quickly, before the bread and yogurt. It was ok. 5 pieces of ravioli that seemed ordinary. My first choice was Ashak but they ran out.

The bread came, it was 3 little squares smaller than a napkin. It was stale and not warm. Very disappointing, I’ve had free bread that was much more appetizing. The yogurt tasted store bought. I wish there was more bread to complement the yogurt.

The kofte dish wasn’t great. 3 ordinary and small meatballs, some rice, lackluster salad, some spinach.

The waitress didn’t come to check in on us at all. Water wasn’t refilled. Service non existent.

I genuinely felt like this experience was a waste of time and money. I went to La Banquise afterwards to try to cleanse my experience.

I understand that complaining about bread and yogurt is pretty specific, but every point of the evening was disappointing. Not one moment was enjoyable. The only saving grace was the conversation I had with my partner.

I understand that operating a restaurant during a pandemic is hard. I’m sure the restaurant was understaffed. But I wouldn’t come back to this restaurant again.

Portions are small, food quality wasn’t great, service was non existent. I still get upset thinking about this place.

Anthony Bourdain said you need to be able to embrace the risk of a bad meal to find a good meal. I hope that my luck here will set me up for success somewhere else...

My partner and I recently ate here. The restaurant was either busier than they expected or understaffed. The server was very polite and obviously trying her best to cope with the over-sized workload, but it still took a little over two and a half hours from the time my partner and I were seated until we paid the bill. The decor in the section we were seated in seemed unfinished and our chairs were uncomfortable to sit in for that long and seemed more suited to a cafeteria than a restaurant of this price.

Our food was okay. I ordered a chicken kabob with vegetables that was served with salad and rice. The chicken was very good, but the rice was quite dry and plain, and the salad was merely some bitter strips of romaine with a light amount of dressing I could barely taste. The rice and salad took up most of the plate, making the meal look bigger by filling it up with cheap, low-labour items. This was perplexing, because the rice that came with my partner's meal was spiced and very good, and the cucumber salad they ordered beforehand was absolutely delicious. I don't know why the cucumber salad or the spiced rice doesn't come with every meal. I could have eaten a gigantic bowl of just the cucumber salad and the chicken.

Overall we were very disappointed. My partner and I don't get the chance to eat at a restaurant this pricey more than once a year usually. In the time it took for us to dine there I could have cooked us a similar or better meal at home for 1/6 of the price, on comfier chairs, in the comfort of our home. By the end we were very eager to leave. Even the tea and dessert were underwhelming, with very little water given to us for the tea and the dessert small and plain. We bought a pie from the supermarket on the way home to make up for...

I have lots to say about this the food was okay but the portions is outrageous and VERY VERY disappointing I literally got mantu and there was only 5 of em on a long plate I also got bolani there was only a few pieces cut like a pizza? Like it's literally bolani not a freaking pizza whoever cut the bolani up like that is a freaking menace as a Afghan I am very disappointed about this I also got Chapli kabob the waiter said it was spicy when I ate it there was literally no spice and he explained there was lots of spice but there was NONE disappointing very.we also ordered chutney but didnt get it mind you the menu doesn't have many stuff and we didnt get chutney which is crazy. on the menu there's literally no prices at all and I don't even know why a restaurant would do that like do they wanna gatekeep their prices and make the people pay lots of money for food when they don't know the price and also the prices are high especially for the bolani there was only few pieces of it i didnt know that they would only give us a few pieces it was also my first time here and I was very shocked to see like i think 5 pieces of freaking bolani?.we got sheeryakh and when I looked at it it literally looks like ice cream which is also disappointing and there was no qamak which you are supposed add to sheeryakh I am very mad at this and sheeryakh doesn't like that like when I saw it it literally looked like vanilla ice cream apparently they make it "themselves" I don't believe that anyways everything was disappointing and I don't even want to call this a...