Bamiyan Kabob

Deliciously tasty; well prepped. Quick and easy and great for a quick bite whether alone or with a group of friends.

Tried the sultani dinner; priciest option but I’m a carnivore so wanted lots of meat. And boy did I get it. Great portions. Lots of rice. Lots of meat, very tender juicy and flavorful. Just reviewing it is making my mouth water again haha. Good salad. Lots of rice wasn’t able to finish and the naan was good too. Satisfied.
Took them about 10 mins to make my food and there was no one at the time I went, went just after 11am. So give ur self lots of time. I saw quite a few people order on the phone and pick up, which is what I’ll do next time. Good stuff.

The food is good, no complaints, but the wait is really long for such a place. The stuff wasn’t friendly at all. My boys were bored and started acting out, so the manager comes up to us and tells me that the kids are bothering other patrons. I was really pissed off, you don’t come to a place like this expecting half an hour wait before you get your food. We will not come again…

I ordered all their meats and they were all amazing. Even the bread!
I highly recommend if your in the area.

SUCH good afghan food. It gives me life.
Get any kabob and tandoori grill. It’s like the perfect mix of Persian and Indian food.

This time around we visited their East York location. Much smaller than their Mississauga location but no shortage of customers!
I’ve only given this place 2 stars because the wait time is, in my opinion, unreasonable. The food is good, but we recently visited another Kabob place (review pending) where the food was equally excellent, price equally affordable, but the wait time was reasonable.
For a place that has fast-​food style service where you place your order, pick up your order at the counter on a plastic cafeteria tray, I can’t understand why I should wait 30 minutes for my order.
There is a quality to fresh food, but I don’t think that’s the problem, I feel that it’s just a mis-​management of time and resources. There was one guy whose job it is to make and stack styrofoam takeout boxes… and then put the food from the grill into the window– the whole kitchen is about the size of a train-​car diner. I think there are more efficient ways of handling food.
Speaking of food handling, food passes through 5 people before it enters your hands: 1. the grill master 2. the sous– grill master who takes food off kabobs 3. then to mis-​en-​place for plating 4. the styrofoam box maker to put it in the window 5. the cashier/​sous-​cashier who puts plates on the trays. That’s a lot of hands…
We tried to call in our order, but no one picked up– when I asked the cashier «what number do I call to place my order» she replied «we don’t pick up the phone, it’s too busy» then she continued to stand around waiting for a new customer to walk through the door so she could take their order.
We gave it 2 chances, we’re not going back.

Well this review is not about three good but about the hospitality of the staff, I visited the place, placed my order and I was told that they only take cash or debit card, I gave 100 $ US and they try to rip off by not offering the conversion rate, I offered my visa/​Mastercard for debit account but still not acceptable and they aren’t even apologetic about it
Very bad communication and customer handling

Bamiyan is consistently good. Can’t go wrong if you are in the mood for some Afghan grill meat.
Will keep coming back!

This is one of the new locations which opened near my area. I went to it once to check the place out and give it a try. I have been going there since then. As the food is very good quality. I will say they have once of the beat kababs around the area. Place is very good with nice washrooms. Just make sure in washroom some customers wet napkins for some weir reason not sure y. So will recommend this place to anyone around the area.

Delicious Afghani kabob and other dishes! Used to frequent the Mississauga location when I worked in the area. The food is amazing with quick service and plenty of seating in a very nice modern dining area. The portions are generous and each dinner comes with a large naan and salad. Love it!

Best Kabob in town hands down! It’s not even a competition. (PS. Bamiyan is a town in Afghanistan. No, they don’t serve okra here)
This is a self service restaurant. You look at the menu and it’s nothing but Kabob. I ordered the Kefta Kabob and it came with a side of salad and nan (picture below). Kabob was fresh and delicious. Haven’t had such quality Kabob in a long while. Nan was hot and fresh. I tried my friend’s tandoori chicken and I strongly recommend that too. Service was quick and friendly. Restaurant is very spacey. Spotless clean. Fancy décor.
A must try for anyone in the area. I will surely come back for more.

Had an early dinner here last Friday. The restaurant was so spacious and clean! My husband and i split the Sultani Kabob dinner which came with a piece each of barg (filet mignon) and kofta (ground beef), side salad, basmati rice and Naan. We just added an extra order of kofta (meat only). It was just enough for 2 people. The kofta was better than the barg which was a bit on the dry side. The meat was grilled to order which was good but translates to a bit of a wait. I have tasted kofta that was more juicy… the juciest one from Sofra grill, if I remember correctly. The naan was on the crispy side. But overall good value for money. Next time though we would stick to the kofta. We ordered a kofta dinner to go for our son and he licked the plate clean.

Been to the plaza a lot. There are a lot of restaurants there, but usually we try something else. Wanted to try something different so went to this location. We thought it would be similar to Greek food because it used to be a Mr. Greek, but we were very wrong.
It seems to be an afghan place. There were no pork dishes. All their orders were very simple and there wasn’t a huge selection. Tried the beef, chicken breast, and the spicy shredded beef. I forgot the name of the dishes.
The meat was amazing. I especially like the spicy dish. The rice was good; different from Chinese and western rice. Not too soft, but not too hard. The salad was average.
It wasn’t too expensive compared to the rest of the restaurants in the plaza. It was a self serve location so there were no waiters or anything. Just ordered from the counter like McDs
Pro
Good food
Fast Service.
Con
No service. If you want someone to wait on you, then you are going to the wrong place.

Clean, affordable, and tasty — it’s a winner. Had the tikka beef lunch with green salad, tomato/​onion salad, and Afghani naan (a much thicker, breadier version of Indian naan) — which was a good portion. Salads were nice, and the meat was juicy and tender. It’s plenty of food for most, though a few guys had the ‘dinner’ (ie. same as lunch, but with addition of rice) and managed to find room to get it down. Also had the mango smoothie — nice, cool, and refreshing, if you don’t mind a bit of sugar. All in all, a nice place, spacious, relatively quick service (order then wait for your number to be called).
My only suggestion is to have translations into English on the main menu above the order counter — we had to ask what everything was and were pointed to their paper/​takeout menu to see the translations. It would’ve been nice to see those written in small print somehow on the overhead menu as well.

I have decided I like Afghani food after eating here.
Location:
So this place is located in the section at East Beaver Creek and Hwy 7 where all the western restaurants are located (there are a lot of Asian restaurants in the area, This are is where a lot of chain western restaurants are located)
There’s plenty of parking, but because there’s a lot of restaurants, you might find you have to park a wee bit away if you are coming on the weekend. ie. Friday or Saturday night.
Décor:
Casual. it’s plain, neat, nice colours. You have your choice of table or booth. Tables can seat from 4 to 24. Nice for big groups. The big tables aren’t round, they are square. I like the light fixtures, took a picture but not sure if you can tell.
Ordering:
The restaurants in this area are all sit down with wait staff. This place is different. So you order at a counter fast food style. You have a seat and wit for them to yell out your number. When it’s busy you have to listen real close because you can barely hear them. It would be great id they had some sort of microphone and speaker so we could hear. Would save the poor women (only women) who work the counter
Service
The women at the counter are really nice. i never know what to order and they always suggest the best food.
The food also comes really fast. It’s not the most complicated food, so I’m glad. We were all hungry, we were glad to get our food quickly!
Food:
So basically from what I can tell you can get kabobs, salads, and wraps. Nice and simple
I got steak kabobs dinner. It’s the one on the front cover of the menu. Most popular item apparently.
Your food comes on huge oval plates, a brown basmatti riec over flowing, gren salad, a small tomato and onion salsa type sald, and a piece of naan bread. I got a steak kabob and a kaftka kabob.
Loved my meal. The steak was soft and tender, nicely flavoured, the naan soft and chewy like you expect. The rice was cook well, not over or under done. Season well, and I loved the dressing on the salad, not sure whata it was, we referred to it as white.(because it was white. haha)
Conclusion.:
I could have shared my plate there was so much food. Ate half of it there and took the rest home, had it for lunch the next day. A wonderful treat!
Everyone I was with loved their food as well. thumbs up from the 8 of us!
Will be back and will bring as many people as I can!
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Hmmmmmm I love this place! The food is the absolute bomb oh my god. The fresh bread that comes with it too! So good! A definite must try for anyone in the area! The mango slush is also a definite must try!
I usually order from the dinner menu because it has the meat, veggies and rice! Also the bread! I think one of the best ones is the barg or at least I always order that! The price is very good for the portion food you get.

This is my fave place to go for kabob. The place itself is very spacious and clean. As long as you time your visit, before or after the lunch or dinner rush hours, you will be pleased. It gets really busy during lunch and dinner, proof that good food knows no racial boundaries. This is where you will see different backgrounds with the same goal1 savouring the mouthwatering grilled meats. I love the flavours of the tandoori chicken. Dinner comes with a huge naan bread, salad, tomato, onion and parsley side and a spicy dipping sauce. Each and every time I visit this place, im always content and happy. The feerni is a light dessert, must try. Writing this review now made me crave for it.

Good portions with a LOT of rice.
The meat was cooked quite well-​I opted of the Sultani Kabob dinner which was plenty of meat.
There is quite a bit of starch here with the rice and the bread, but then again… that’s part of the experience.
It does not look busy at all, even on a weekend night.
Would return to try the tandoori chicken which others have written much about.

Pretty huge place with lots of seating, it’s kind of like a fast food style place where you go up to the counter to order… the employees were pleasant to explain to me what I should get, got the sultan which u get a filet mignon and beef skewer, comes with a generous amount of rice and salad, didn’t really like the naan as much, too bready
Also got the chicken breast which was good, rmb to ask them to get the white dipping sauce, that was good

OMG so good!
I haven’t been able to stay away. This location is good too because it is not as sketch as the one near york university.
They have a bunch of different kabobs and dinner meals — the workers will explain what they are to you nicely if you need help.
My favourite is the barg kabob dinner: it’s huge chunks of steak pieces with salsa, salad and kabilee rice — I hate rice, but this type of rice is so texturized and flavourful… YUM!!!
The prices aren’t bad because the portions are huge. I can split up one meal into lunch and dinner and I’ll be good to go for the day. All the dinners are ranged from $ 10-​$ 14
All dinners also come with freshly baked afgan naan … I don’t eat bread often but this bread is mouth watering… it’s so fresh that it smells amazing and melts warmly in your mouth. Ugh. So good.
The restaurant is never busy. It’s a foodcourt type of restaurant where you order and they’ll call your name. However, they have very comfortable and clean seats that reminds me of some other generic restaurants like kelsey’s.
I also recommend the mango smoothie! Straight up extracted from a ripe mango. At least, that’s what it tastes like.