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| - I had never heard of this place before Tuesday night, but apparently its quite popular.
Tuesday evening I was taken to this small stucco sort of place in a U shaped Plaza. Right away I noticed a big Persian crowd, mostly families.
Now, I am pretty familiar with Persian dishes so my surefire way of trying out how good the restaurant quality is, is by ordering the simplest dish (kobideh). Its a kabab style dish with rice and 2 grilled tomatoes (usually for decoration/slight flavor).
me and my girlfriend both tried the Dogh ($2.50 each) (yogurt beverage). If you haven't tried it, its absolutely , positively refreshing. Its got grounded pepper along with dried mint and the consistency is similar to medium bodied milk. Its almost always served chilled, or over ice and is paired with kabab.
I liked the consistency here but different areas of Iran and Afghanistan add cucumber bits. "North" does not. Yet, it was still pretty refreshing and yummy.
for appetizers we ordered : Borani spinach & Zeitoon Parvardeh.
The Borani ( $4.99 )is again a yogurt dish (DO NOT ORDER 2, they give a good portion of it so it can be shared by 2).
Its similar to a dip dish, brought alongside with pita. Its thick with a mixture of sautéed spinach, garlic and herbs in yogurt. Ive had better so I wasn't fully satisfied, I felt it had TOO MUCH yogurt and not enough of the garlic/spinach.
The Zeitoon Parvardeh is a bowl of marinated green olives with walnut, pomegranate paste, Mountain's herbs and spices ( $5.99 ).
Now, I'm a HUGE green olive lover...so this is DEFINITELY worth a try if you love green olives. The quantity is big enough for 2 to share but be warned, its crazyyy salty!!...so I had the pita from the yogurt borani, mixed some yogurt and added the olives...YUMMMM...
For entree : Koobideh Kabab ($10.99) & Sultani Kabab ($17.99)
the Koobideh was AMAZING..so tender and juicy. The rice was O-K.
The sultani dish is a combination of tenderloin veal & ground beef. This dish is great for meat lovers that want both the kabab as well as try something different. I tried some of the veal and it was REALLY good. The meat is definitely something to try here.
I was too stuffed to try the tea
or dessert. :(
Bill came up to $53.00.
The plus is definitely the food.
The downside is the service, the server is a tad stuck up and refused to speak to us in English, only Farsi. (which is so wrong... why would you assume we knew how to speak it?). I got the feeling, service isn't huge here. Water alone took almost half the meal to get to us , and when it did, the portion was ridiculously small.
Then when we asked for more water, they huffed ( WHAT THE?? ...SERIOUSLY?) and got us a jug of water , slamming it down on the table. As if to tell us how annoyed he is.
So all in all, don't go here expecting minimal service, just go in , eat and get out. Don't forget to pay ;)
xoxo.
M.
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