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| - Gilaneh is one of the better Iranian restaurants, and is definitely one of the pricier ones. We went there with a group of friends. A couple of friends were Iranian so they recommended food from Northern part of Iran, which apparently is the specialty if this restaurant. My food (Sour Kebob) was really good except the dry and weird salad called Shirasi (its essentially Israeli salad, just much less tasty.... Correction: absolutely tasteless!). The warm bread was great. I also tried one if my friends' vegetable rice, which i thought was very dry.
What was the most disappointing was the service!!
First they brought one bread, which is quite small, for a group if 9. We had to ask multiple times for more bread, specially as Persian food takes too long to get prepared.
Then for ordering the food, some of us were not familiar with the food so we needed to go through the orders with our Iranian friends. The server was very condescending, and making jokes and as he was not fluent in English, his jokes were not the most tasteful.
Now the worst part: at the end of the night - I mean 11 pm in a weekend! - when there were only three tables left (each one with more than 6 guests), all the servers and the manager! sat down on a big table, with their cell phonos desperately waiting for us to leave!!! It was a horrible feeling for us as we were not even half way through our food!!!
The atmosphere of the restaurant is interesting. Its definitely not a typical high class restaurant. So if you want to impress someone, this is not the place. The entrance is very over the top with poorly done stone works. Inside, the decor is nice, but man, the restaurant is so noisy that we should shout at each other to hear ourselves, making the the noise even louder! To out things into perspective, it was noisier than any sport bars on a weekend night!!
The food, including the non-alcoholic drink and appetizers -which you HAVE TO order as the main dishes takes so long ( more than 30 min) - will cost something around 40-50 per person.
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