When I was talking with some of our friends about dinner on Friday night, they asked me to give them three choices that I wanted to try โ I did and Persian was the verdict. We made an early reservation and arrived at a restaurant that was already fairly busy. By the time that we left, it was overflowing with people, both inside and out. I started with one of their house-made sodas, a berry and peach mixture above that was very interesting. As none of us had eaten here before, we asked the waiter for recommendations and he suggested that we start with an appetizer platter which included seven of their starters.
A few minutes later, we had a table absolutely over-flowing with food, in at least ten plates or bowls, along with appetizer plates for each of us, and two baskets of naan baked in the the two giant tandoori ovens near the entrance.
The naan bread was warm and crispy and delicious and was dipped in everything that we had on the table. For the entrees, Jo ordered Joojeh Kabob charbroiled Cornish Hen with lemon, lime and saffron, served with saffron basmati rice. As you can see, it was a heaping plate of food that also had a non-disclosed whole roasted tomato on it โ they had stacks of skewers of tomatoes by the grill and the hen was moist and tasty.
The plate was oddly shaped, which resulted in her fork falling off the plate, and almost off the table, any time she tried to rest it on the plate. After the massive amount of appetizers and the time spent waiting for the entrees, none of us were able to finish our meals.
I ordered the saffron-yogurt marinated rack of lamb with lentil bismati rice which was also chock-full of raisins. As I said above, there was a quite a gap between when we finished the appetizers and when the entrees arrived.
