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| - I finally tried Sheherzade tonight (Saturday) with my boyfriend after being turned away without a reservation two times before! So be warned - if you want to go on a Friday or Saturday night and you don't want to be disappointed - make reservations!
We came here on recommendations from a few of our friends, especially on the Dizi - there is a description of this in the first review, so that's what we both ordered. We started with the zeitoon parvardeh as the appetizer. The highlight of the evening was being commended by the waiter on the pronounciation - he gave me 9/10 on the pronounciation! :) It was pretty good, even for me, though I am not normally a fan of olives. They are whole green pitted olives, ground walnuts, crushed garlic, pomegranate paste, sprinkled with mint, and is served with barbary flatbread, which I love. It's warm flatbread sprinkled seeds.
Then we got the Dizi. When they bring it to you, they separate the liquid from the meat in the stew. You use your flatbread to dip into the soup to eat. With the meat, you get a heavy pestle that you use to ground the meat into a paste,which is then eaten with barbary flatbread, topped by yogurt and some green paste called torshi. The meat is lamb that has been stewed for 4 hours. I didn't find the flavours of the lamb very strong. Most of what I tasted was the yogurt and torshi, which was sort of like a relish. I enjoyed it, as did my boyfriend, but I have to admit I probably would've preferred the kebabs and rice, but I'm glad I got to try this. It was definitely a different eating experience.
We ended the meal with dessert - I can't remember what it was called but it was rice noodles that have been frozen with sherbert and served with rosewater and lemon. I really liked this. It tasted like sherbert with little strands of rice noodles through it, soaked in honey water and with some pomegranate seeds on top. The dessert was my favourite part of the meal, and I'm glad I saved some room for it.
The portions here are very generous and I wasn't able to finish it and ended up packing it to take home, so this place is good for people with big appetites!
The servers were very friendly and seemed to genuinely enjoy explaining the menu items to you, which was great. However, it was a bit on the slow side as it seemed like there was one 2 servers for the whole restaurant, albeit the whole restaurant was only about 10 tables.
Overall, I would return to this restaurant again because of the value, friendly service and generous portions. I think next time I will try the saffron rice and kebabs. I have dined at their sister restaurant next door, Pomegranate, and their saffron rice is so good, but you'll have to read my review of Pomegranate for details on that!
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