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    Se7enbuds Restaurant

    4.7 (60 reviews)
    Closed 12:00 pm - 10:00 PM
    Updated 3 months ago

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    SE7ENBUDS RESTAURANT ATMOSPHERE

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    Casual
    Good for groups
    Dogs allowed

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    Qabeli Palaw
    Elizabeth H.

    Delicious Afghani food! Definitely a shareable meal that can be enjoyed with family and friends. The Qabeli Palaw, lamb cooked with special seasoned rice, with raisins and chopped carrots, was wonderful! The lamb was very tender! The Mantu is another Afghani dish to go for. Steamed dumplings stuffed with ground beef, onions, and spices served with yogurt sauce. Very authentic! The meal was filling we didn't have room for dessert. Highly recommend Se7enbuds for an authentic Afghani food! Our server was very nice, engaging, and attentive.

    Fries $3.50
    Rudy H.

    Afghan cuisine neighborhood restaurant (very similar to Persian cuisine) that is clean with good service and affordable prices. Pretty big menu with many selection of kebabs, rice dishes and other standard Afghan / Persian food. I've had the combo of kobideh kabob $21.00 (1 skewer beef & 1 skewer chicken) with rice, tomato and bread butter. Also I got an order of fries to go $3.50 As a matter of taste, it was good but also kinda plain in term of spices and seasonings. But taking into consideration, overall it was still a good value. Just don't set your expectation too high.

    Mantu
    Lizzie S.

    I found this restaurant on Yelp's hot new restaurants feed! It's a great location along the Polk St bike lane at Polk and California--I picked up takeout lunch as I was biking there and there's a beautiful bike lane right outside the restaurant. I ordered the mantu--it was well-seasoned and filling, even though it was deceptively a small portion at first! I loved the bread it came with and also the vegetables. Service was wonderful and warm and friendly, and the interior was light, airy, and had lots of art and flowers at each table. The tea is great too! I'll be back to try more of their delicious Persian food, like I was eyeing their gyros.

    Jonathan H.

    Wow! This place is a find! This restaurant serves Afghan food, which is not a cuisine you normally get to try. We had two dishes: Qabeli Palaw and Muntu. The Qabeli Palaw is a huge piece of lamb on a bone (incredibly tender lamb) covered with seasoned rice, raisins and carrots. The lamb alone was amazing: fall of the bone tender, the type you find at truly top restaurants. It was delicious! The portion size was huge: it would have been enough to satisfy my wife and I for dinner. Our second dish, Muntu, was steamed dumplings stuffed with ground beef, onions and spices with a special yogurt sauce. This dish, too, had a incredible robust flavor. Again, it was a large portion. A side of freshly baked Afghan bread was served with both dishes along with a spicy green sauce in a separate small bowl. The two dishes were so big we took leftovers home and had them for breakfast the following day. There is complimentary tea available to have with your meal, which we enjoyed. The ambiance of this very clean, well lit restaurant is pleasant and relaxed. The owner, who served us, was wonderfully friendly. And lastly, the cost of the food was really, really reasonable: $20 for Qabeli Palaw and $19 for the Muntu. I don't live in San Francisco but if I did I would be going back on a regular basis.

    Combo Kobideh Kabob
    Samantha W.

    cute little restaurant with great food and great service at great (sf) price! me and my two friends got dinner and caught up here, shared 2 kobideh plates + hummus + shirazi salad. great bites of freshness and flavor thru the shirazi salad, rice, and bites of pepper, onion, and tomato in between.

    Hummus
    Binh P.

    Super tasty Iranian restaurant. The decor is really cute and inviting. The workers are super nice as well. We got fries, hummus, doogh, rice with barberries, chicken, lamb, and beef koobideh, doogh, and saffron ice cream. The kebabs were delicious and juicy. And the rice was so fluffy and addicting. Fries were also crisp. Saffron ice cream was refreshing. It was a lot to share between 2 people, but I really didn't want to leave leftovers because of how good it all was. I would gladly come back to support this business. The beef koobideh was probably the best tasting beef koobideh I've had. Reminded me of vietnamese beef sausages wrapped in betel leaves.

    chicken and beef kubideh combo
    Glenn G.

    Excellent food! Everything was fresh and tasty! Generous portion for the prices! Friendly service! I like the bright dining room too!

    Bolani and Ash
    Momo M.

    Absolutely fantastic restaurant. Highly recommended!!! The food is so good and authentic. Can't beat the service as well. The ash was great, the bolani just right and the kabobs are the best. Can't wait to come back!

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    Food was amazing and very clean environment, definitely will be coming back here. Service was perfect as well

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    Great tasty options. Reasonable prices. very friendly service! Casual ambiance. Great for a quick dinner when in town on business.

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    All the food at this restaurant is delicious, but the mantu and veggie sambosi are absolutely the best

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    Good Food nice servers Had to walk a short mile to eat here ! But worth the walk Liked free tea after we ate.

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