Co-owner Abdullah Panah & Executive Chef Homa Bazyar.
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A family table from Kabul to Colorado to the Jersey Shore.
Founded by Abdullah Panah — a Stockton University graduate and physician who grew up in Atlantic City — Setaara was born of a single conviction: this beautiful city deserved a dining experience as worldly as its visitors.
In 2017, his aunt Homa Bazyar sold her beloved French restaurant, Café Monet in Denver, and brought decades of training under a French chef to the Jersey Shore. Together they imagined an Afghan-French restaurant themed around the golden age of Afghanistan, 1920s–1970s.
Afghan food is a testament to the empires that crossed the country — Greek, Mongol, Mughal, Persian. Savory rather than spicy, jeweled rather than loud. Paired with French technique and a wink to Ducktown Italian, it's a cuisine no other table in Atlantic City sets.
