{"id":8914,"date":"2013-03-09T04:29:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T12:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2013-03-09T04:29:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T12:29:43","slug":"skokie-il-kabul-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8914","title":{"rendered":"Skokie, IL – Kabul House"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s one of those places where most \u201creviewers\u201d are not going to be able to find fault;\u00a0 nor will your average customer who walks in off the street.<\/p>\n

Affable hosts, prompt service, delicious food, artfully presented, and a fair price.\u00a0 That\u2019s the story at Kabul House on Oakton Street in Skokie.<\/p>\n

A soothing atmosphere with linen tablecloths and napkins is the perfect setting to sample a wide variety of the cuisine of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

The restaurant has been around for quite some time, but has been in various locations around the North Shore;\u00a0 the Skokie location is the newest and nicest.<\/p>\n

They bill themselves as \u201cChicago\u2019s only authentic Afghani restaurant\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 I have no way of knowing if that is true or not, of course, but I do know the food is spot on to other Afghan dining experiences I have had outside of the US.<\/p>\n

We opened the experience with hot cardamom tea all around, which was both delicious and palate cleansing;\u00a0 on to lentil soup, with was hot, thick, with just a hint of spice.<\/p>\n

For appetizers, we shared the \u201cMantoo\u201d, steamed dumplings stuffed with seasoned ground beef and plated very attractively with a tomato based sauce and yogurt, and split the vegetarian platter entr\u00e9e as another starter, a plate of saut\u00e9ed spinach , eggplant, cauliflower, and pumpkin.\u00a0\u00a0 If you\u2019re a regular reader, you know how much I enjoy dumplings<\/a> in any form, and the same goes for cooked spinach.<\/p>\n

For my entr\u00e9e,\u00a0 I opted for the Koubideh,\u00a0 seasoned ground beef skewers or kabobs (yes, I seek out hamburgers\u00a0 in any shape!) , with grilled vegetables.\u00a0 All entrees come with a choice of three styles of rice, a seasoned version, plain white, or dill.\u00a0 I went with the dill, enjoyed it very much.\u00a0\u00a0 The other diners in the party enjoyed the shrimp kabobs, and the chicken kabob entrees.<\/p>\n

I generally pass on dessert, but my companions raved about the rosewater and cardamom ice cream, made in-house.<\/p>\n

Tea, two appetizers, three entrees, two desserts, two coffee, less than fifty bucks.<\/p>\n

I generally don\u2019t look at other reviews on line, but I was curious about how Kabul House fared, because my experience was so divine;\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t surprised that the majority of reviews I saw paralleled my own experience.<\/p>\n

This family deserves your business, and all the success that life in the free world promises.\u00a0 I\u2019m happy to have had the experience of dining here.<\/p>\n

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Lentil Soup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Steamed beef filled dumplings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ground beef skewers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It\u2019s one of those places where most \u201creviewers\u201d are not going to be able to find fault;\u00a0 nor will your average customer who walks in off the street. Affable hosts, prompt service, delicious food, artfully presented, and a fair price.\u00a0 That\u2019s the story at Kabul House on Oakton Street in Skokie. A soothing atmosphere with… Continue reading Skokie, IL – Kabul House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16,35],"tags":[169,911,3210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}