Food in Kabul

Lunch is supposed to be fun. It is fun at times, but not when I have to leave my office - near downtown Kabul - in search of yet another restaurant. I am not concerned, as much, about the taste of the food I have for lunch, it is the hygiene - or the lack of it - of the restaurant which I dread.

Turkish restaurants spring up around Kabul at a rapid speed. They feel clean and secure.

There are restaurants I will avoid eating:

1. Chef Burger

2. Perfect

3. Herat Restaurant

4. The small restaurant at the corner of main and 9th Street - Taimani

5. Oaisis 

6. Wakhan - it has the best coffee in town, but the prices are ridiculous ($4.5 or 250 AFS for a cup of coffee)

7. CherryBerry - on main Wazir Akbar Khan road - serves good coffee