Sarban - Den Bosch - Orthenstraat 87

Above my expectations! I was once to an Afghan restaurant in Eindhoven and I was not impressed at all but here... everything is perfect: delicious & nice presented food and very friendly and professional staff! ? It is quate rare to have real waiters/servers in Holland!

First time at an Afghan restaurant. Very interesting cuisine, lots of spices and really full of flavours. I have no reference regarding these dishes, but what I had was cooked perfectly. Very vibrant flavours, really quite remarkable. On top of that, the service was friendly and very swift. Highly recommended!!!

Nice place to eat. Great food, the surprise menu is definitely recommended if you want to try Afghan food

Delicious food and outstanding service. Super recommended.

Very good and pleasant restaurant. Very tasty food and very nice people. Highly recommended ?????

Super tasty food and a very friendly service! What else do you need?

Honestly I don't get the hype.. We went there because of the great reviews and the place was full when we arrived. The waiter explained that you basically have two options and they both cost the same price which is almost €30. You can either choose one starter one main and one dessert. Or you can choose the "introduction" menu which, according to the waiter's explanation consists of a mix of the starters, a mix of the main courses and a mix of the desserts so obviously less food from each one, put together to allow you to try more of their dishes and become acquainted with their food. We opted for the introduction menu. First of all I asked if it was possible to choose from specific starters because I was sure I didn't want meatballs or salad as a starter. He said no problem, you can explain your preference and the chef will prepare accordingly. Then another waitress brought me a single appetizer and we realised the first waiter who took the order did not understand and thought I wanted only that one apetizer and nothing else from the starters. We said nevermind, it's fine. To make up for it, they offered meatballs which I said from the beginning I did not want, and then brought us a complimentary salad "to make up for it" which was the other apetizer I didn't want :-)) Then came the main courses. Considering we were 2 people and paid 72€ both (each having one glass of wine and sharing a bottle of water) the food seemed to be in a very small quantity for that price. Just one portion of chicken and very little lamb, a little rice from 2 kinds they had in the menu and 5 small dishes with lentil, spinach, beans, beetroot and salad. Very small! Secondly, in my opinion the dishes were way over spiced and salted. Perhaps to mask the fact that they were not cooked in the best way to bring out the flavours. I expected the lamb to be melt-in your-mouth considering how much they emphasised that it's prepared hours in advance. It was not. The chicken was tasty, but also extremely over spiced. Rice wasn't cooked well in my opinion. The spinach was good. Everything else was average. At the end I decided to ask for takeaway for whatever we didn't finish because after paying so much, I thought at least I would save some money the next day. But the waitress told me that they "don't do that". Something about how the food is out in the open for 2-hours as we are eating and it's possible to be contaminated from the other guests breathing the air in the space of the restaurant. I will admit I lost my patience at that point and told her that I did not like the food too much, but I am paying for it and I want to take it with me, if anything at least to save some money the next day. She said they don't have any take away boxes and eventually gave in and wrapped it in aluminum foil over a plate. After this they brought dessert which was one scoop of homemade pistachio ice cream and one scoop of fig ice cream. They were very average tasting. As we went to pay the waitress asked us where we are from. I said Romania and as I was about to say that we both live outside of Romania for the last few years, she responded "oh, so that's why" :)) not sure if she meant that there is a difference in taste, food-wise or if she meant something else but me and my friend left it there. A couple of things worth mentioning: we initially asked for tap water and they also said in response that "they don't do that" so we could only buy a bottle of water. Asked for room temperature, they said they only have cold water. And we did not complain about the food until they refused to give us the takeaway. So we were trying to be polite and and not make a big deal, although I still think that if you are going to charge €30 for each person and also have a whole speech about the preparation of the food, then the quality should rise to that expectation. This was something that I never would have complained about if it would cost €10-12. Until we showed that we were not satisfied with the food the waiters were very nice, but they didn't try to make up for it either, so 2⭐?

One of the amazing restaurants in Den Bosch.