Bahar

Apparently unaffiliated with the Bahar on Coney Island Ave., this Afghan restaurant has won praise for dishes like narlenge palow, "zafron colored rice [sic], topped w. orange peels, almonds, pistachios, and chunks of lamb kebab."

I'm not inspired to order item number 88, but it's interesting to note the sentiment behind the "Freedom Fries." Bahar's laissez-faire attitude toward orthography doesn't entirely exclude the French, however; asking for number 86 will secure you a side order of "Raisons & Carrots."

Bahar
82-19 Queens Blvd. (north side, near 51st Ave.), Elmhurst, Queens
718-426-5822

Comments

[John-Paul Pagano]

"Zafron" is not necessarily a sic. Zafaroon is the word for saffron in Farsi, so "zafron" could be a transliteration of the Pushto, or whatever dialect these people speak.