Zafira Fine Foods Moonah in Hobart, Tasmania | Afghan restaurant

Zafira Fine Foods Moonah

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6289 6633

Address: 35 Gormanston Road 7009 Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: https://www.zafirafoods.com.au

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25.01.2022 This weeks menu! We are also now open for dinner and takeaways on Wednesday evenings too.

24.01.2022 Lemon, cream cheese and sultana pastries.

24.01.2022 School holiday family special! Family booking (2 adults & up to 3 children) for only $80 including a meal. Call or message 0418990315 to book a tour this week. Extra times available

23.01.2022 Breakfast available this Saturday morning from 9am....including chocolate bolani! If you have a sweet tooth and haven't tried this Tassie twist on the bolani, it's definitely time you did!

23.01.2022 Friends of Zafira which supports the employment and training of our team at Zafira Cafe has its AGM in two weeks. It is looking for committee members and volunteers.

23.01.2022 Next time you come in for a meal, take some time to read the cultural interpretation information which is next to our items on display. Written in English and Persian, our thanks go out to Najibeh and Te for their work.

23.01.2022 Looking for a last minute Fathers Day present? Got a Dad who has everything? (well he has you, so of course he has everything!) How about a Zafira Gift Card? Just follow the link below to buy one online - too easy! (Just make sure he brings you along to dinner too though) https://squareup.com/gift/WR4SQD1CH2GCH/order

22.01.2022 Delicious zucchini qorma with rice.

22.01.2022 Book launch and dinner on 20th of October. Limited spaces available.

21.01.2022 Would you like to join our mailing list? Its a great way to receive updates on whats happening at Zafira and opportunities to support our latest projects. Just send a message via Facebook or an email to [email protected] and we will send you out a discount code that enables you to access some great offers prior to the Christmas season!

20.01.2022 Fundraiser for the Tasmanian Refugee Legal Service.

19.01.2022 Aushak (dumplings) only $13 this week.

19.01.2022 Students from Sacred Heart learning how to make aushak as part of the Zafira Cultural Experience today.

17.01.2022 Our hearts are full of grief. Stop the killing.

17.01.2022 RAR is supporting the upcoming Cygnet Market Garden this Saturday so please spread the word and come along if you can. This will be a wonderful chance to indul...ge your gardening needs and wants whilst supporting a great cause... All profits will go to Welcome Gardeners Tasmania - a small grass roots group that assists new Tasmanians from refugee backgrounds to connect to their new community and environment through gardening. 100% of funds raised from the Cygnet Garden Market will be gratefully dedicated to the purchase of seed envelopes, potting mix and manures etc to support our activities throughout the next year. For more info on Welcome Gardeners Tasmania join their Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/404410196715631 or call Sharee 0429 663 598 See more

16.01.2022 We are very excited to announce our new Zafira Cultural Experience available every Tuesday and Saturday by appointment including over the upcoming school holidays. Maximum of 8 people per group unless otherwise arranged. School groups and community groups are welcome. For further information please ring or email us at [email protected]

16.01.2022 WE have only two places left in our bolani cooking class this Saturday at 2pm. Message us to book your place.

15.01.2022 Our walls are getting more colorful every week. Beautiful traditional Afghan girls costume on loan.

15.01.2022 Photos from Friday.

14.01.2022 Trio of vegetable qorma only $15.

12.01.2022 Chicken Zareshk

12.01.2022 We had a lot of fun at Sacred Heart College today with Feyzieh showing students how to cook bosrah and halwa. Maddy Rojahn joined us to talk about her book The Bloody Unknown which tells the stories of refugees and migrants arriving in Tasmania.

12.01.2022 Our amazing and talented cooks, Habiba and Feyzieh.

12.01.2022 Lunchtime snack: bolani plus two taster vege dishes for only $10.

11.01.2022 Our February menu includes the Kebab mixed plate (available Thursday to Saturday nights from 5pm) for $20 and a special dish Chicken Zaresh available throughout the month.

11.01.2022 We are very proud of Hanif who has graduated with a Bachelor of Medical Research. Congratulations on a great achievement and best wishes as you continue on with your post graduate studies.

11.01.2022 We are taking orders for Habiba's naan for pick up this Saturday. $3 for the biggest and best naan in Hobart!We are taking orders for Habiba's naan for pick up this Saturday. $3 for the biggest and best naan in Hobart!

11.01.2022 Kofta pizza made with our delicious naan as a base. Come and try.

11.01.2022 We have plenty of delicious bolani available tonight from 5pm. Always delicious!

08.01.2022 Great article about the Zafira Cultural Experience in the Glenorchy Gazette this month.

07.01.2022 We have no phone again. Please call our mobile 0435779983We have no phone again. Please call our mobile 0435779983

07.01.2022 This film is definitely worth watching and buying a ticket helps support a vital service for people who came to Australia as refugees from all over the world. Don't miss it!

06.01.2022 Goat biryani this Thursday from 4pm onwards!

06.01.2022 Sheerbrinj (sweet rice pudding) ready for eating.

06.01.2022 We have 4 spaces left for this Saturday at 4.30pm for our next Cultural Experience. Come along and learn how to make aushak, watch bolani being made and learn more about the traditions and culture of Afghanistan with our Cultural Officer. Please call 0418990315 to book a place. Group discount available.

05.01.2022 Another week of delicious food with spicy goat biryani available from Wednesday evening this week. If you can't decide what to try just ask for a taster plate for only $15 this week!

05.01.2022 When did humanity cease mattering the most?

05.01.2022 Habiba and Zafira Cafe were featured in an article about the impacts of Covid 19 in The Australian this weekend. Great photo!

03.01.2022 We will be open from 4pm to 8pm this Thursday. Lots of delicious food and delivery option available too. Enjoy the sunshine!We will be open from 4pm to 8pm this Thursday. Lots of delicious food and delivery option available too. Enjoy the sunshine!

03.01.2022 This weeks menu ready to tempt you including delicious qorma sabze (spinach and kidney bean vegan dish) as well as lamb and chicken kebabs available this Saturday for lunch and dinner. (Pre orders and bookings for kebabs are welcomed and recommended!) Don't forget we are also open for breakfast on Saturdays.

03.01.2022 We are so pleased to be supporting Friends of Zafira develop a community veggie garden at the rear of the Zafira Cafe. Not only is it fantastic to see what was once an overgrown rubbish heap turned into a well used productive garden, but all our vege scraps go into the compost saving us rubbish disposal costs and our cardboard gets reused as weed mats under mulch. It's a big win-win....and did we tell you about the lovely fresh vegetables we will be buying for cooking? It's another piece of good news from Zafira.

03.01.2022 Fresh naan available today. The biggest naan in Hobart for only $3 per piece!

03.01.2022 Every lunch and dinner time Reza cooks fresh kebabs at Zafira.

02.01.2022 Taking orders for naan for FridayTaking orders for naan for Friday

02.01.2022 Our menu for November is up already. We have a new tasting plate available featuring your choice of two meat dishes and a vegetable dish for only $18.

01.01.2022 The sun is shining! Come and say hello! We have plenty of delicious dishes to tempt you including kebab wraps, bolani, qorma bowls as well as sholazard (rice pudding) Afghan halva and sweet pastries. Open this Saturday from 11.30 onwards.

01.01.2022 On Friday we were very pleased to host Andrew Wilkie who launched our Zafira Cultural Experience. Najibeh Jafari, our Cultural Officer welcomed Andrew to join everyone for morning tea and to learn more about the culture and traditions of Afghanistan. It was a wonderful day and marks a new chapter for Zafira Fine Foods.

01.01.2022 I grew up in Kabul with nine brothers and sisters and forty cousins who all played together, fought together, and laughed together. When I was young, Afghanista...n was a peaceful country, but when I was 10 years old, Russia invaded, and suddenly we saw soldiers in tanks on the streets. At my school, the year 12 girls regularly led protests against the invasion which they started by ringing our school bell. However, as I got older, all these girls disappeared. So one day, after the school bell was silent for a few weeks, I jumped from the window and rang that bell, and I kept ringing that bell for 3 years. By doing that, I put my life, and my family’s life, at great risk. I was physically abused many times by soldiers. They used tear gas and electric sticks on our legs. My family wanted me to stop but I never did and I don’t regret it because I feel I did my part for my country. One day, the police came asking for me, but my father told them that I had died. After that, I fled to Pakistan with about 40 other people, including my uncle’s family and my grandmother. Sometimes they brought a car where it was possible to drive, but otherwise we walked. It was not easy crossing the Khyber Pass, as we had to walk from one mountain to another. In Pakistan, we lived in a refugee camp, the six of us in one room of a house. Pakistan wasn’t dangerous, but we didn’t have a life there. We were just passing time with no idea of our future. A lot of the time, we girls were kept at home, and when we went out, we had to cover our faces because, coming from Afghanistan, we were considered very pretty. I had two years of that and could not cope, so when I was 16, I decided to try to walk to India to start a new life. One of my brothers who worked in Iran came to take me across the border. It was a long and scary walk. When going into India with no passport, you pay a smuggler to take you, and along the way, we were constantly stopped by corrupt police officers who ended up taking all our money and possessions. When we finally crossed the border, we made our way to New Delhi, where we got a room with just one mat in it, and nothing else. For a week, we stayed without food, until eventually we got help from the UNHCR. Then, after five months, an Afghan man with Australian citizenship sponsored me to come to Australia as his wife. At that time, I was eighteen. The first time I put my feet on Australian soil, I fell in love. I woke up with blue sky and sunshine. For months, I enjoyed seeing women driving cars and playing sports and enjoying the freedom of being a woman, which is now my freedom. It affected me in a positive way and I really got along well with the Australian community and the Australian way of life. I kept my religion and tradition and my culture, but I would say that I became an Aussie. I studied English, followed by a Diploma of Community Welfare and I then started working with Afghan women to empower them, providing them with services like swimming classes and English lessons. I was happy and I forgot about the situation in my country. But after 3 years tragedy struck, when my first son went away for the first time to visit family in Wollongong. They went to the Kiama Blowhole to take a photo and a wave came and washed them all away and all seven people died. That was the most difficult thing in my life. It was a huge shock, and I was in severe depression for three years. In that time, I eventually found my peace and healing through praying and talking to God. I also had another son, but soon after, my husband and I grew apart and separated. Finally, one day I decided to take my pain and turn it into strength, making a promise that I would dedicate my life to changing the lives of children in Afghanistan. The first thing I did was to sell all my jewelry, and I then established my first orphanage for 30 Afghan children in the Jalozai refugee camp in Pakistan. But I had to keep sending money, so slowly I sold every single expensive thing I owned. Then one day a friend, Karen, came to the house and couldn’t believe all my furniture was gone! After that, she taught me how to fundraise properly. At our first event, we raised $10 000, and with that money I built my first school, big enough for 800 students. Since then, Mahboba's Promise has established schools for girls in places where there were no schools, set up health clinics in remote villages, created vocational training programs for women and youth, and built four orphanages, which are called Hope Houses. Children come in as street kids, and the first thing they do is plant a tree, for a sense of belonging. We provide them with clothing and food, and a school where they learn to write and use computers and speak English. They are so happy to have a place to call home! I’ve now been running my charity for 23 years. It hasn’t been easy, but many wonderful people have helped me along the way. And it is unusual work beautiful and rewarding. I wouldn’t change a thing. Mahboba Afghanistan Arrived 1984 Help transform the lives of girls and women in Afghanistan by donating to one of Mahboba's Promise sustainable development projects here: https://mahbobaspromise.org/projects-2/ #refugee #afghanistan #inspiration #dedication #mahbobaspromise #newhumansofaustralia #storiesnotstereotypes