Setaara

Founded by Abdullah Panah. Having grown up in Atlantic City, Abdullah has always loved this city. He is a Stockton University graduate and completed medical school in 2021 at RowanSOM currently in his residency training at JeffersonHealth NJ. He has travelled extensively throughout the world and always misses this beautiful city within days of being in a new destination. Throughout these years, the one disappointment he has had is the lack of diverse cuisine in a city with so many amazing restaurants. Having travelled to dozens of countries, he realized the potential that Atlantic City has if it offers new experiences beyond casinos. The first such thing the city could use is diverse cuisine and he sought out to create not only an Afghan restaurant, but to create a whole new unique dining experience. Since 2014, he began encouraging his aunt Homa Bazyar to sell her restaurant in Colorado and to come create a brand new dining experience in the Atlantic City area. By 2017, she had visited the area countless times and ultimately sold her restaurant. Thats when the concept of an Afghan French fusion restaurant came into the making. Having immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan in the 1970s, Homa has always loved creating new dishes and incorporating different cuisines into a single dish. Shortly after immigrating to America, she began training under a French chef in the Denver area. Eventually, she managed to open and operate a highly successful French restaurant called Cafe Monet in the Denver, Colorado area for several decades. In designing the restaurant and its dishes, Abdullah and Homa used their experience traveling throughout the Middle East and Europe to provide the most authentic restaurant possible. The theme of the restaurant revolves around the golden age of Afghanistan from the 1920s-1970s. We look forward to sharing our unique take on Afghan and French cuisine. Being in the heart of Ducktown, we also have a couple of Italian dishes available. Set