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| - Food: 8.5/10
Atmosphere: 8.5/10
Service: 8/10
Overall experience: 8.5/10
My experience with Persian food was very limited when I walked into Sheherzade. It's a great place to get started and see if this is a type of cuisine that you will like. The friends I went with, one of whom is Persian, let me know that the sister restaurant (The Pomegranate) is more "traditional" Persian with stews, etc.
The four of us in our party started with four different dips, all of which we ate with this bread that had sesame seeds on it. The dips were:
- polour (feta cheese, scallions, walnuts)
- spinach borani (yogurt based with garlic and spinach)
- maast-o museer (yogurt based with garlic/shallots)
- Kal kabob (eggplant based)
The feta cheese dip was great (if you like feta cheese) but was hard to get on the bread. I ended up mixing it with a more liquid dip, like the shallot one, which is very strong.
All of the dips were great in their own way, but you definitely have to like this kind of texture and flavour. They are not mild by any means.
For our entrees, each of us had one of the kabob/rice/veggie combos. I had the chicken (Jujeh Kabob). Each orders comes with lemon-saffron rice, a grilled tomato, and a vinegar-dressed salad. The rice was great! (but I am a sucker for carbs). I liked the chicken, but tried some of my boyfriend's beef kabob (Kabob-e Torsh) which I liked a bit better.
The service was good. The waitress (surprisingly a hipster rather than what I expected to be a very authentic Persian person) ran us through the menu and answered all our questions with a smile.
The bottom line: you absolutely need to be into this type of food and texture, but if you are, you will not be disappointed.
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