Kabul Afghan Cuisine transports diners to another land with spiced Middle Eastern dishes in a dining room adorned with traditional rugs, colorful costumes, and ornate desert murals. Soft Afghan music floats through the festive dining room, mixing with the scents of spice-simmered lamb and chicken dishes and sizzling kebabs of ground beef, salmon, and veggies as diners balance palates with their BYOB bounty. In the back of the restaurant, patrons can reserve a taqh—a raised platform covered with Afghan rugs and ornate cushions—where parties kick off their shoes and dine without silverware to invoke airs of an authentic Afghan dinner or of a meal savored at home while waiting for the dishwasher repairman.