Kabul Afghan Cuisine — Restaurant in Seattle

Kabuli pulao was good, meat was flavorful. We ordered the Kabuli pulao served with 2 meat skewers and two small desserts (rice pudding) that came after..this was apparently serving for two and costed $95.

We were excited to try this restaurant but service was terrible. Our server was nice but she did not check on us even once after bringing our food. I found a long black hair buried in the rice; we hadn’t even take the first bite! it was gross so I look up and our server was not making eye contact and instead she brings her food and starts eating on a table nearby! So we’re just sitting and waiting but no other server is checking on us and the owner was standing on the table right next to us the whole time, and wouldn’t stop talking to the people on that table. he Kept on talking loudly and not caring about other customers. Finally after some time , we get noticed, I tell the owner about the issue, he then goes back to kitchen bringing us another plate of rice. Cool. Human error, life goes on. So now as we’re getting ready to eat, owner tells us no-one has black hair so we don’t know how it got here, implying that it was ours. I got frustrated and I told him, it’s not ours either. After that, the staff kept ignoring us, didn't check on us, we had to flag them down to get us dessert and check.

Botton line is food was OK, service definitely needs work.

I will avoid this restaurant due to extremely...

We have been coming to Kabul for 5 or 6 years now and have added two kids to our family in that time, both of whom have been welcomed with open arms (during non-pandemic times, of course). Pre-COVID, we had the same waiter every time and even under less than ideal circumstances now, he asks the person picking up take-out about our family's health and genuinely cares about the customers who come by.

I used DoorDash once or twice at the start of the pandemic, but they must add on significant fees to each dish somewhere in the process because the food was roughly $30-50 more expensive than when I have picked up. Calling in the order and picking it up with a mask (the staff wears masks and gloves and cleans high touch surfaces between customers) also means that one less person handles my food, so I don't mind at all.

Our favorite dishes are:

Ash soup Bolani turnovers (my 16 mo old son eats the yogurt dipping sauce by itself because it's so good) Qorma-i-Sabzi (vegetarian spinach dish) Chicken and/or lamb kebabs (add the eggplant; it's phenomenal) Firni pudding for dessert

My husband has a number of food sensitivities that make restaurant food challenging, but because of the wide variety of vegetarian/vegan options that are still extremely tasty and the staff's knowledge of what's in their food and willingness to make tweaks, we look forward to eating here for...

My first taste of Afghan cuisine and probably one that is going to be incredibly hard to beat! Pros: Best dishes on the menu: Drink: Yogurt based drink with mint and spices. (Forgot the name) Entrees: Bandejan Borani: Three slices of fried eggplant topped with garlic yogurt and tomato sauce and beef. Flavour in every bite! You can add a side of basmati rice for 4 dollars more. Bara Kabab: Marinated lamb with rice. Best Lamb Ever. Period. You can add a slice of Bandejan Borani on the side. The waiters are friendly and welcoming.

Cons: The only reason I have reduced a star is because of the price point, quantity and wait time for food. It took a really long time for us to get our food after ordering even though the restaurant was not too busy, the food however was totally worth the wait so this was forgiven. On an average each dish here costs between 22 to 35 dollars which is NOT cheap. For the price point I would expect a good quantity but that was not the case. For example: the Bara kebab costs 22.5 dollars and comes with just 5 small pieces of lamb. Likewise the Bandejan Borani costs 22 and comes with 3 medium sized eggplants. But again, the food quality is fantastic, so I would pay good money for this.

Overall, Kabul was a great experience and...