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  • What a nice place to meet up with some friends for a Post-New Year's Day lunch! I was brisking it down Yonge street and once I got past the 401 Games store, I had to slow myself down just so I could keep an eye out for the restaurant's signage. Like alot of the commerical places in most of the downtown core, the inside of Darvish was slightly obscured by the dimness of the windows so it was a bit difficult to see into it. But once I went through the door the lay out of the tables and Persian decor was just like what I had seen in the photos in on here. There was one imprint of what looks like a Sheppard or Warrior on some sort of skin still hanging on the closest to the kitchen. But the one item than stood out was this big oval-shaped vintage looking clock which a couple of my friends just had to point about. While looking over the menu I had a yogurt based drink called Doogh which has its various counterparts in most other Central Asian and Middle Eastern countries. If anyone is familiar with Lassi then this a more simple version of it.The only thing that this particular drink would need to make it more palatable for people who are new to it is a touch of honey or sugar syrup to slightly sweeten it. I've had another version of it before, including the Lassi and I still have to get used to strong taste of unsweetened yogurt in it. The friendly and gracious hostess brought us two baskets of tasty looking flat-bread, which I only had the mind to try once our meals were brought over. The bread was slightly thick to-the-feel and the crisp texture of it made me thing of those slender looking bread-sticks that seem to be a rare novelty only in some French and Italian restaurants. But the best and most soothing way to eat it was to pair it up with the dish that I order. This was something that I already had in mind when I was looking at the menu on-line and it was the Aubergine (Eggplant) Stew. For some reason I wanted to try a dish that had some nutrients in it and when I came across this dish and saw that it had a balanced combination of pulses, vegetables and meat, I just wanted to get it when I was at the restaurant. It was also nice to dip the bread into the gravy from time to time and the pieces of veal were big enough to the bite that I could get enough flavor of the meat and the spices and other seasons that were involved in the stew. "Comforting" is definitely the one word I used to describe it. I think every main dish came with a serving of two-colored rice and the Lamb Shank came with a fava dill rice which gave it a distinct green hue and also one of my friends received a colorful garnish of what looked like pomegranate seeds on her bed of rice which a delightful red hue to it. Everyone else's dishes which included a Chicken Shish Kebab and Koobideh dishes also looks delicious and those dishes came with a whole char-grilled tomato, something that I wish was included with my stew :-) Well, having read that Persian and Middle Eastern cuisine always plays a strong role for the dining culture of the locals on special occasions, it was momentus that my one friend chose our get-together to be at Darvish and the food (and my drink) we had really served that purpose on the second day of January 2017.
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