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| - I didn't think I'd go all the way to Montreal to try Afghan food, but as it turned out we finally did get full of all the rich French food we had been eating and needed something different on our last night in town. This place had caught our eye several times as we had been walking to Au Pied de Cochon. It turned out great, as it was inexpensive and friendly, and the food was good. We all got one of the table d'hôte options for about $25, including soup, appetizer, main course, dessert, and coffee/tea. I started with the Mashaba soup, which included noodles, vegetables, ground beef, yogurt, and coriander. Very delicious. For my appetizer, I got the Ashak, which was small boiled pastas stuffed with chopped leek and served with mint yogurt and ground beef tomato sauce. This was good but a bit heavy after the soup; I preferred the pumpkin borani that my brother ordered (my husband got the eggplant borani but he wolfed it all down before I got the chance to try it myself). For my main course I got the Korma Chalaw, a trio of basmati rice served with lamb chunks cooked in tomato sauce. The lamb was nice and tender, but I was so full at this point. My brother got the Vegetarian Combo of spinach, cauliflower, gumbo, turnip, and eggplants, which I wish I had ordered instead. The dessert was rose water pudding sprinkled with pistachio nuts, which was excellent. I got coffee and my brother got a tasty cardamon tea. We loved all the flavors in the food, especially the strong presence of cardamon in everything. It was a BYOY (bring your own wine) place; we were a little wined out so we didn't bring any, but there is a SAQ just on the corner where you can pick up some wine to bring to dinner here. Overall a solid restaurant, we enjoyed it.
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