L’Atmosphere is one of the more popular spots in town for ex-pats. It might be because it serves alcohol at all hours (for those 3 martini lunch types), could be that it has free WiFi, or that in the summer it opens its in ground swimming pool and people actually saunter around in bikinis. It has been put on many organizations “not cleared” list because it attracts foreigners and is a good spot for a bombing and/or kidnapping (although neither has been attempted there to my knowledge). You can’t tell it is much of anything from the outside. Like most of the restaurants in Kabul, it is fairly inconspicuous from the outside .. aside from the guard station that usually houses 3-4 men wearing Kabul’s favorite accessory: a kalashnikov. But once you walk through a series of doors and around a private backyard, you get to the oasis. It is also my housemates’ home away from home where they can speak French, chain smoke cigarettes, drink, and say things like “put it on my tab” (which gets settled at the end of each month). I’ve also dubbed it the French underground since that is where most of the Frenchies go when they are hiding from work.
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