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قابلی پلو
Qabili Palau
Lamb shank braised for four hours under saffron rice, with caramelised carrots, raisins, almonds and pistachios.
Per plate€21.50
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From Kabul to Hamburg
Three generations, two cities and one rule: if Bibi Gul wouldn’t serve it at home, we won’t serve it here.
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Kabul · Karte Char
1987
Bibi Gul’s courtyard kitchen
Every Friday, our grandmother cooked qabili palau for twenty relatives. Rice washed seven times, carrots cut thin as matches, lamb on the fire since dawn.
- Family recipes
- Friday dastarkhan
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Hamburg · Altona
2009
A pot of palau for the neighbours
Farid Rahimi arrives in Hamburg with Bibi Gul’s recipes in a notebook. His first big pot of palau is for the neighbours. Soon the whole building asks for more.
- One pot
- Forty plates
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Hamburg · St. Georg
2014
Kabul Nights opens its doors
Thirty-two seats, a charcoal grill and a tandoor. Farid and Laila open Kabul Nights in St. Georg, with Bibi Gul’s photo by the door.
- 32 seats
- Charcoal & tandoor
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Hamburg · today
Today
Still made by hand, every day
Today we seat ninety guests. The mantu are still folded by hand every afternoon, the naan still comes out of the tandoor, and our meat still comes from a halal butcher in Hamburg.
- Hand-folded daily
- 100% halal meat
“The guest is a friend of God. Feed them like one.”
Bibi Gul, Kabul
