Review Afghan Charcoal Kebab - Coburg

Amazing food so tasty and great quality, meat was tender and delicious!! First time we ate there and we highly recommend it. Had chicken and lamb mix with rice and bread really good but bread was little hard but not too bad and Amount of sauce in kebab is not enough

So we discovered this place completely by accident because we were in the area and completely starving. Oh my goodness I'd come back for the Afghan bread alone! Everything was absolutely delicious. We were completely surprised by the quality of the food. You see these little take away stores and think 'well, at least the food should be edible' but we'll 100% be back. The scrambled eggs were delicious and the faba beans perfectly seasoned. I know I sound like a paid promotion but you really can tell when workers take pride in the food they serve, and that is exactly what this place delivers. The interior isn't much to look at but the food will blow you away.

Kebabs taste pretty good. Just get ready for a mouth full of bread and salad Edit: Went back to try their pizzas. Amazing!! Definitely would recommend 😃

Absolutely amazing. One my friend suggest me this and guess what! everything was perfect. You are doing an amazing job. Thank you for such delicious food.

Excellent service. Mixed kebab with extra meat was quite tasty, well wrappped & over all enjoyable! Great value for money, it cost me $10. I do recommend trying this place at least once & I look forward to trying out more food from their menu in the future.

Really good! Certainly does not disappoint in quality and quantity. Meat is great.

Nice kebab yummy liver and qabuli pulao staff members are nice

I have tried combo of 15$. It was good. But I feel the stuff they added is a bit less. If you guys are looking for more stuff and a bit less price maybe you guys can check the samawar across the road. Anyways it was good but it takes time because only 2 people handling the customers, kitchen, delivery orders and all.

Excellent food and friendly staff. The salami pide was delicious and great value. The chicken doner kebab roll was tasty as was the lamb shish kebab roll. Lots of lettuce and liked the bread roll. Will ask for a little more sauce next time. Can’t wait to come back and try the Afghan tandoori oven bread next time. Recommended.

We have come here many times before and it used to be our favourite but I can't say that anymore.<br/><br/>I have to agree with all the negative reviews regarding shocking customer service.<br/><br/>We put our order through and waited... After 30 minutes we still hadn't received our chicken skewers. Other customers who came after us had already received their order.<br/>We asked where the food was, and the staff had nothing to say. They actually ignored us and started talking to their other staff in a different language.<br/>We asked multiple times and still couldn't get a straight answer. They simply said it's coming.<br/><br/>We then observed the staff put the skewers on in that moment. By the time we had received our order we had waited 45 minutes which was just ridiculous! More than that, the staff couldn't take the responsibility to properly apologise or make us feel like they cared about us.<br/>The food was good, but not enough to make up for the customer service.<br/><br/>I wouldn't return here again unfortunately.

Tried out this place to check out their charcoal kebabs. We took the combo of 2 chicken and 2 lamb kebabs.<br/><br/>The kebabs was served with a yoghurt dip, a tomato salsa kind of side and a green salad. The Afghani bread came with the combo but we underestimated the size and ordered an extra one.<br/><br/>We preferred the chicken kebabs over the lamb ones. The lamb pieces were slightly dry and chewy to eat whereas the chicken was flavourful and juicy. The size of the bread was huge, and we had to leave the extra one.<br/><br/>Don't bother about the ambience too much. They seem to have their regular crowd who frequent the place. Our rating isn't 3 or 4 but rather 3.5 mostly for the chicken kebabs and the yoghurt dip.

Great place, really tasty food and cheap! The chilling dip, pide and kebabs are great,

Excellent variety of pizza, pizza itself was a Capriccosa Coburg special which every bite was spectacular, Excellent kebabs too. Food is never dropping with oil, it's well cooked, completely fresh, phenomenal taste, polite staff, great service, usually very busy, affordable prices. Highly highly recommend this place to give it a try. Will visit again.

This place is so good. It’s great value for money and super tasty. The salami, onion and mushroom pides are my favourite. Definitely recommend!

Nothing Authentic, not even close. The mince kebab is absolutely rubbish, its not about the money , its about the taste. I have been to so many Afghan restaurants, this one is the height of disgust in terms of taste. Do yourself a favor try next door kebab station.

This place is great value for very tasty and satisfying food.<br/>My partner and I ordered a falafel wrap each, as well as a vegetable pide to share. We were thinking we would struggle to fill up, based on the extremely cheap price. $5 for a massive, almost foot long falafel wrap in delicious Afghan bread?! Unbelievable!<br/>The falafel balls and filling itself was pretty standard, but hit the spot. The vegetable pide was very very tasty!<br/>Service was also great, very friendly staff.

Authentic Mediterranean flavours on huge Shish Kebabs. Must try for people who want to taste what real arabic food is. Would've given 5-star if it weren't for the unfriendly woman at the cash register. More patience from the staff's end wouldn't hurt.

Best kebabs in Coburg! Meat has so much flavour and staff are always happy and friendly! Eaten in numerous times and the food is quick to come to the table and super affordable!

Love the food here! It is authentic and flavoursome, and the price and serving size is excellent. Kebabs and rice/meat plates seem to be their signature dishes.

Quick stop here on our way back from Sydney Road.<br/><br/>We got one Shish Kebab Wrap to go.<br/><br/>The shish was smokey in flavor and well cooked. Personally, I LOVE smokey flavor which is what made this wrap so good. <br/><br/>It was topped off with lettuce, tomato, onion with some added garlic sauce. Stuff it in some soft Turkish bread and voila, you've got a kebab big enough to split between two people! <br/><br/>Price: $10/ Kebab; fast service and we took it to-go. Will return to try the pizza! <br/><br/>

Fresh, good quality food with a friendly service. Lamb Kebab ad mixed grill with traditional rice full of flavour and sultanas featured. Delicious for a quick good value meal.

The hot tandoori bread ($1.50) is absolutely delicious. <br/>The girl though I was a bit odd just ordering that, but it works so well with a huge range of dishes, and isn't something that you could really prepare at home!

Popped in for a quick lunch today. The prices are very reasonable and the food is pretty tasty. Not a bad spot for a quick and tasty lunch. The girl who served me could have been a bit nicer though.

So I came here with my dad and we shared the pita breads and two lamb and two chicken kebabs. All was delicious and every thing tasted very fresh. I would highly recommend!!

Love the food around here. Always cheap and cheerful and fairly quality. Had the pack with the juicy chicken skewers and some dips and bread on the side. Good times!

I love this place. The service is always friendly, and the food is high quality and great venue. There are times I make a trip to or via Coburg just to get food from here!!<br/><br/>For those on a low-carb regime, it's great too... you can get a doner kebab meal, which comes with meat, salad, and dips. And it all tastes AMAZING!

Authentic flavoured kebabs cooked to perfection, freshly made bread that melts in your mouth (you can literally see the guy making it) and a variety of menu options. The white rice isn't authentic but it's still tasty, great range of dips and you get plenty of food considering the price is so reasonable. <br/>

IMO, the best kebab in Coburg. Excellent value compared to the neighbouring establishments, but ACK takes the cake with superior service that is always friendly and welcoming.<br/><br/>The Pizza isn't to my liking, but you can always rely on the quality meats, especially with the kebab.<br/><br/>Shame the Kebab and Can deal has gone away, as it was the best $10 i have ever spent!

This place has tasty charcoal meat, handmade traditional bread and sweet rice with slice of carrot and rasins. I ordered family pack #2, choice of 6 skewers set meal. We got 2 each skewers of beef with hint of hot spices, mild lumb & chicken. It surely satisfy for 4 Adults.

This spinache and cheese pide is life! So damn good, i can't stop myself eating it. And the turkish bread you get with your meal is bigger than your head. No joke, it's the biggest piece of bread you'll ever see. True Afghani style!

Afghan Charcoal Kebab offers a simply brilliant range of flavours - they made me fall in love with Afghan food. One underrated dish on the menu is the Biryani. Forget everything you know about Indian biryani, you will never go back to subcontinental rice dishes after tasting their delicious chicken biryani. And the bread is unbelievable. I spoke to an afghan man on Sydney Rd and he told me that the bread here is the best example of Afghani bread that he's ever tasted outside of the country itself. Try it. You will love it here.

Please take your time and read my feedback carefully.<br/><br/>I wish google review give us option to give businesess Minus star rating. As this business not even deserve a single star.<br/><br/> We have been there on 29/12/2016 around 9:30 pm to have a nice dine out. But we have choose the worst Afghan Resturent of the Great Sydney Road. <br/><br/>The customer service was the worst one we have ever seen. The girl who served the food does't know the basics of hospitality may be working cash in hand as cheap labour with no professional qualification or training. <br/><br/>We orderd (Family Deal 2 ). Our order were served incomplete as per the menu deal also its was not cooked completely . When we ask the serving girl about the order and quantity, She was so rude I cant explained. <br/><br/>I requested  her to see the boss, When boss came, Even the boss and the staff start making fun of us and told us that  "we can give you 100 breads because you seems too hungry". Actually we only ask them to give us the complete deal as we orderd and mentioned on the menu.<br/><br/> Then they come with another excuse that this is takeaway menu. <br/><br/>If that was takeaway menu, Why that menu given to us on the dine in table. And also menu was not saying its takeaway only.<br/><br/> We left the restaurant without eating anything and paid for the food which we left on the table.  They didn't even say sorry they had no shame and were laughing when we were going out<br/><br/> I will never go back there again. Also not recommend Anyone.<br/><br/>Thanks.

By far theeeeee one of the best afghan joints in the north. I'm not being biased, I've tried them all. Some i can't be bothered even writing a review. From the big smiles to the cosy 'family' type dining to the charcoal meats. Everything in this place goes hand in hand. I haven't eaten so much meat in my life. No proud of it but boy oh boy, i enjoyed it. Detox for the next 4 weeks after tonight. <br/><br/>Eat with your eyes my friends (see attached) then go there and feed your soul.

Happy to pay ten bucks when a kebab is this good. The bread is often overlooked but it's a critical component of the humble kebab. I think they bake on the spot, not sure but it's nice a fresh.

What an awful experience. Ordered delivery through menulog and the food arrived two hours late and stone cold. The customer service was as pleasant as a cup of cold sick too. We called to ask where it was and had absolutely no apology or explanation. Wont order again.

Love it! Would always go here if the shop next door is too crowded. They do just as good kebabs! Loved the afghan style bread and pizzas. Always enjoyed a late night visit.

Low key but really good food. Don't order the pizza! Stick to the mixed plate, this includes skewers of beautifully marinated meat, flavoured rice, salad, dips of your choice and freshly baked bread. The service is fine. My only complaint is the ambience. Being at the Coburg end of Sydney road means that the outdoor seating is loud and polluted. Inside has a tv on and fluorescent lighting.

always pop in after a boozey night out. Kebabs are usually good and hit the spot just right. $10 for a bread stuffed with meat and veg and a can of coke is good value, what more can you ask for?

Came in yesterday for a late lunch, and was definitely not disappointed. Afghan bread, fluffy but still with that outer crunch, along with some exceptionally tender and tasty meat. I got the mixed kebab meal with a can of soft drink for $10, expecting the usual fare. Instead, I got a kebab as big as my head with some extra herbs used to flavour the lamb and chicken which was very generously heaped into the meal. The garlic sauce was not as overpowering as you'll find at many kebab houses, which was a nice change. <br/><br/>I look forward to coming back to grab some cheap pizzas and more of those delicious kebabs!

Had a Charcoal Lamb Kebab Meal (3 skewers), which was served with salad, 2 dips and a basket of Afghan bread. The lamb kebab was mouth-watering, with a charred fragrant, and the meat was succulent. I had it with the carrot and cucumber dips, while my friend went with hummus and spinach dips. All 4 of the dips were great but I especially loved the cucumber dip which was refreshing and appetising. We were served with a generous amount of large Afghan bread, which was tasty, even though it was slightly tough. The Afghan bread was already good on its own and I could eat it just like that!

Edited September 2017 - revised down to 4 out of 5 due to cash only policy (seriously - meet your tax obligations like the rest of us) and surly response when trying to swap bread for rice when ordering (even when offering to pay extra). Get with the times, many people don't want bread these days. Meat is still fantastic though. <br/><br/>Fantastic meat here. So good, had it twice in two weeks (once eating in, once take away). The grilled skewers are genuinely cooked over charcoal and have a wonderful flavour. The meat is cooked through yet juicy. How do they do that? The doner lamb meat is real lamb (not the processed stuff). It has some fat but it needs a bit of greasiness. Importantly it doesn't have chunks of fat or gristle. The bread is very good. I have never had afghan bread before. It's like Turkish bread but more dense. They make the bread on site. For the quality of the meat the price point is very reasonable. I'll definitely be a repeat customer.

Kebabs - on the expensive end, but absolutely huge and with good quality marinated meat - they also make their own bread, which I find a good predictor of overall quality. Has been my hangover cure for some time.<br/><br/>Pizza - Usually there's a limit to how bad bread, tomato and cheese can be, but this place gets it all wrong. May have been acceptable 30 years ago but these days you'd be better off at Domino's a few doors down.

My felafel roll was good except I got a couple of pieces of lamb in it which was quite awful as a vegetarian. This may have been a rare mistake but please be careful Afghan Charcoal Kebab!

Now THAT was different. I eat a lot of kebabs. Too many, probably. And I'm not even drunk when I do it. I just like those sangers, especially when I'm on a long pushbike ride. But there's a certain sameness to them. Most kebab shops use meat from standardised commercial provedores such as Tek, instead of making their own. Lately, I've tended to order kebabs other than the standard lamb or chicken, stuff such as Adana kebabs, just because the regular ones are boring.<br/><br/>Not so with Afghan Charcoal Kebab. On a group bike ride from the CBD to Coburg and back, we stopped at the nearby pedestrian mall for lunch. Even though my favourite kebab shop in town, MKS, is right next to this place, I thought I'd give the Afghans a try. It's been a while since I ventured to down south to Afghandenong, where they have eateries aplenty. But the lamb kebab I had here was unlike any I had in Dandy. The meat was moist with a mild yellow curry-ish sauce, so it didn't taste like every other kebab I've ever had. It was real slices of lamb, too, with fibre and texture to the flesh, not that smooth plasticised stuff that gets carved off so many spit rolls. It comes in a sliced Afghan bread roll, kind of like Turkish bread only not so crusty. Standard lettuce/tomato/onion on it, nothing unusually Afghan there. I was just SO surprised to taste unusual spicing on a kebab.<br/><br/>Afghan Charcoal Kebab also does pizzas and various other fast-food Afghan meat dishes. It's always a good sign when you go into an ethnic restaurant and you see a lot of people from that ethnic group there. Since Afghanistan is so diverse, I should say "groups" plural. I was trying to pick 'em out -- "OK, that table is Hazara, the women in shawls look Tajik, thank goodness there aren't any Pashtuns in here because they scare me..." If you're a kebaboffin like I am, this place is worth a go.

Good but nothing special.. The kebab section is good value for money. It comes down to the old saying you get what you pay for. Nothing special just good food. The afghan style bread is very good and as for the rice, dips and other sides are good but it is what you would expect at any kebab restaurant in Melbourne. <br/><br/>However, their pizza section needs improvement as it lacks quality and flavour for the price tag.

One of my faves. The best part of this place is the quiet, unassuming nature and the friendly staff. The Kebabs are superb and the pizza is one of the best in Coburg. The only criticism I have is that they serve coke products rather than Pepsi products which I associate with the middle east.

This unassuming place does really topping heavy, juicy, fresh & delicious Pizzas! It was a long shot but it paid off. Old fashioned value too.

Tea was a rip off. I ordered black tea for $2 from this place hoping it would be afghan style with different flavours, however, it turned out they served a black Lipton tea. It was very disappointing.

Excellent Kebabs. Absolutely top quality charcoal kebabs. I dine in and enjoy delicious lamb, chicken and mince kebabs. The Afghan bread is delicious as is the soup and rice dishes. <br/> Very good value and great service.

Soggy, cold, food. Just like the title suggests, the food, which comprised of a veggie pizza and a spinach & feta pide, arrived late, cold and the pizza was soggy and inedible. Pide was fine, but kind of bland. The best part was the bottle of solo. Sorry afghan charcoal kebab, I wouldn't eat your food if it was free.