De Afghanan Kabob House — Restaurant in Tracy

Celebrating my brother in law's birthday we decided to have a dinner at De Afghanan. Gets a bit tricky on google maps to locate it if you miss the right turn though not that big of a challenge. Good enough parking spots though can get a bit squishy in there.

Once we got in our host for the evening was Amanullah and he got us to our table by the window and got us our menus and had us seated just fine.

We started with some tea and he brought along a chickpea mini dish of sorts that tasted amazing with the cilantro sauce.

Got going with our appetizers and an order for Mantu and Bodinjon Borani. Pretty impressed must say with the mantu and it got swept off the serving plate in no time. Borani was tasty as well and we took our time with it enjoying the flavor.

For our main course we ordered a plate of Lamb Kabob with white rice , Quabili Pallow, Triple Kabob and Combination Kabob with Brown rice , carrot and raisins. Can't say enough about the kabobs , the marination, the actual grilling and all aspects that must have gone into making these must have been absolutely to the point. Amazing taste and we kept talking about these all evening long. Quabili pallow had the lamb just perfectly done and tasted amazing.

We ended the evening with an order of Baklava and Firni which again came out just perfect and complemented tea along with them.

Great food, great service, great host made our evening special. Definite...

We came on a Thursday night and there were 3 other tables. The food took a while to come out, so just be prepared. We each got a chicken pea and potato appetizer for free, but I didn't eat much because it was super sour.

We got: *Potato Bolani ($9.99, 3.5 stars) - I've discovered that all Bolani comes with large portions :) however, this was definitely the biggest I've seen (see picture). We've had it for 3 meals already, and there is still 1/3 left. The Bolani is pretty blend, so it's a good food to eat with dips or meat.

*Chaplee combo (4.5 stars) - Chaplee is ground meat (usually beef) formed in thin patties and seasoned with chili flakes and other spices. The version here was delicious because of the crispy browned edges. I would stuff a small piece inside the Bolani and dipped it in yogurt sauce.

*Kabuli pallow (3.5 stars) - This is one of my favorite Afghan dishes, a traditional dish with tender shank of lamb buries under a mountain of seasoned basmati rice with raisins and carrots. This dish lacks some deep flavors, but the lamb shank was very tender, and there was a little bone marrow in...

1/5 star experience for me. It was my first time trying De Afghanan and first time trying afghan food in general and was very excited. It was very nice inside and we also ordered to go, unfortunately we did not even read the price and just swiped the card. We told the gentleman we wanted just meat kabob no rice no side and what we got was6 pieces of meat for the price of a whole meal $18.99. While we ordered we were clear we wanted just the meat and assumed that’s what we would be charged for. When we called to question the price we were told that was it because it was a plate despite only stating we wanted just the meat. It feels like we were taken advantage of really not sure how you can feel ok for charging that much for 6 chicken nuggets pretty much I understand times are tough and prices have gone up but that price does not feel...