From: bahman@mdi.com Subject: List of Persian Restaurants - Worldwide Date: ??? <> <> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Austria >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Name of the restaurant: Tehran Restaurant City/State/Country: Vienna/Austria Street Address: Close to Mariahilfer Strasse and the Ring intersection around 5th or 6th Bezirk Phone: Rating: 3 (Decent food) Average Price: Specialty: Comments: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Canada >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Name of the restaurant: Cazba Restaurant City/State/Country: Vancaouver/BC/Canada Street Address: 1352 Lunsdale Ave., North Vancouver, BC Phone: 604-984-7311 Rating: 3 Average Price: $13 canadian Specialty: Cholokabab, etc. Comments: Name of the restaurant: Zagros City/State/Country: Vancouver/BC/Canada Street Address: 1326 Davie St. Phone: 689-5999 Rating: Average Price: Specialty: Comments: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Denmark >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Name of the restaurant: Den Persiske restaurant City/State/Country: Copenhagen/Denmark Street Address: Langgade 10 Valby Phone: +4531164527 (Parivz Moghadan) Rating: 4 (really good, it is as good as the Reza's Restaurant in Chicago) Average Price: 120Kr. (120/6=$20), no tips, service is included in the bill. Specialty: Comments: It is a small restaurant and I think is the only one in Copenhagen <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< France >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Name of the restaurant: Mithra City/State/Country: Paris, France Street Address: Place Jussieu, Paris 6.(Metro Jussieu) Phone: Rating: Very good Average Price: About 30FF maybe ? Specialty: Iranian food and Pastry. Comments: It used to be very good, I don't know however if it still exists and under the same name with the same management. My data is from 1987! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< IRAN >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Name of the restaurant: Alborz City/State/Country: Tehran/Tehran/Iran Street Address: Phone: Rating: 5 Average Price: 75000 Rials = 750 Tomans = $5 US Specialty: Cholo-kabab, joojeh-kabab, and daily specials Comments: The price include salad, soft drink, onion, eggs, and tooth pick :) It would have helped if they had a larger place. During the rush hours you will have to wait at least for an hour to get seated but it worth the wait. Name of the restaurant: Haj-Ali City/State/Country: Tabriz/Azarbijan/Iran Street Address: Bohchi (Borkchi) Bazar Phone: Rating: 5 Average Price: Specialty: Cholokabab Comments: This info is from 1978 Name of the restaurant: Hatam (jujekababe Hatam) City/State/Country: Tehran/Tehran/Iran Street Address: Zafar Street Phone: Rating: 5 Average Price: 2500 Rials / person = $2 US (rate $1=1500R) Specialty: Jooje-kabab and Chelo-kabab Comments: The price includes Salad, soft drink, bread, and vegetables. If you are dining outside in summer time, hungry cats will be dining with you. Name of the Hotel: Hotel Abbas (formerly Shah Abbas) City/State/Country: Esfahan/Esfahan/Iran Street Address: Phone: Rating: 5 Average Price: 150000 Rials = 15000 Tomans = $100 US / day Features: Outdoor swimming pool, A place to have traditional Iranian tea where you sit on floor with a huge Persian carpet. Comments: It is damn expensive!!! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Netherlands >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Name of the restaurant: KhAne AftAb City/State/Country: Amsterdam/The Netherlands Street Address: W. de Witstraat (behind the tramstop) Phone: yes (but I forgot it) Rating: 3 Average Price: $5 (10 dutch guilders) Specialty: Dizzy Comments: it is more a khave-khAne than a restaurant. They only serve dizzy, in original style. Once in a while they attempt to make kabab, but without much success. For those interested: a khalyoon can be enjoyed as well. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< U.S.A./East >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Name of the restaurant: Bahar City/State/Country: Vienna/Virginia/USA Street Address: Close to Assal Market Phone: Rating: 3 Average Price: $8-10 Specialty: bread and kabAb koobideh Comments: Nice atmosphere. Name of the restaurant: NAN va KabAb City/State/Country: Alexandria/Virginia/USA Street Address: Phone: Rating: 4 for teste not for service Average Price: Specialty: bread and kabAb koobideh Comments: Doorky looking place. They have a brick oven on the premises and make fresh bread. Have one of the best kababs I've had in a long time. Name of the restaurant: Perspolis City/State/Country: Bethesda/Maryland/USA Street Address: Washington DC area, Wisconsin Ave. Phone: 301-656-9339 Rating: 4 (Very good) Average Price: $10.00 Specialty: Lunch Buffet Comments: Name of the restaurant: Shahrzaad City/State/Country: Philadelphia/PA/USA Street Address: On Lombard at the intersection (of 16th or 17th) Phone: Rating: Average Price: $10.00 Specialty: Chelo Kabob, Joojeh Kabob, Khoresh (Badenjoon, Sabzi, etc.) Comments: small place (for a maximum of about 30) Name of the restaurant: Shish Kebab House Of Afghanistan City/State/Country: Hartford/Connecticut/USA Street Address: 360 Franklin Ave Phone: 203-296-0301 Rating: 3 Average Price: $10-13 Specialty: Nouvelle Khorasani (I'M SERIOUS!!) Comments: Carefully prepared food, but for reasons best known to them, they don't serve torshi (maybe it's bad for you). Name of the restaurant: Moby Dick City/State/Country: Bethesda/Maryland/USA Street Address: Washington DC area, Wisconsin Ave. Phone: Rating: 2 (good) Average Price: $7.00 Specialty: Fast Food! :) Comments: Name of the restaurant: Darvish City/State/Country: Bethesdar/Maryland/USA Street Address: Washington DC area Phone: Rating: Average Price: Specialty: New one! Comments: Name of the restaurant: Papa JaAn City/State/Country: Rockville/Maryland/USA Street Address: Washington DC area, Richie Plaza Rockville Pike Ave. Phone: Rating: 2 Average Average Price: $10.00 Specialty: Comments: Name of the restaurant: Paradise City/State/Country: Bethesda/Maryland/USA Street Address: Washington DC area, Wisconsin Ave. Phone: Rating: 3 Good. Average Price: $10.00 Specialty: Lunch Buffet Comments: Name of the restaurant: Calmore (sp?) City/State/Country: Northen Virginia/USA Street Address: Washington DC area Phone: Rating: Good Average Price: $10.00 Specialty: Comments: Name of the restaurant: Darveesh City/State/Country: Saint Louis/MO/USA Street Address: 118, N Kirkwood Rd. Phone: (314) 822 3666 Rating: Not very impressive! Average Price: $10.00 or less. Specialty: Comments: I tried it during the week, it was empty and the food was not that great. Name of the restaurant: Cafe Rose City/State/Country: Boston/Massachusetts/USA Street Address: Mt. Aubourn Street, Watertown, Massachusetts Phone: Rating: 1 OK Average Price: Specialty: Comments: It's ok if you really have to have Iranian food! Name of the restaurant: Pars resturant City/State/Country: Boston/Massachusetts/USA Street Address: Brighton, Massachusetts Phone: Rating: 3 Average Price: Specialty: Comments: Food is better than Cafe Rose Name of the restaurant: Cafe Bucket City/State/Country: Boston/Massachusetts/USA Street Address: Mass ave right across from Burkly college of music Phone: (617) 266-7738 Average Price: Specialty: sandewich-h salad olviyeh, koko, kotlet, zaban, maghz Comments: They only serve sadwiches. Name of the restaurant: Kolbeh City/State/Country: Long Island/USA Street Address: Phone: Rating: Average Price: Specialty: Comments: Strongly recommended. Name of the restaurant: Kolbeh City/State/Country: Washington D.C./USA Street Address: Wisconsin Ave(where the Iranian interests section is) Phone: Rating: 3 (pretty good) Average Price: about $10.00 Specialty: Comments: Name of the restaurant: Nakissaa City/State/Country: Washington D.C./USA Street Address: Wisconsin Ave (where the Iranian interests section is) Phone: Rating: 3 (pretty good) Average Price: about $10.00 Specialty: Comments: Their "Ash e reshteh" is something else. They offer a nice and quite good menu and has a simple and yet pleasant setting. Name of the restaurant: Azarbayejan City/State/Country: Washington D.C./USA Street Address: Wisconsin Ave Phone: Rating: Average Price: Specialty: Comments: Name of the restaurant: Casablanca City/State/Country: New York City/New York/USA Street Address: around 49th street Phone: Their number was listed in the phone book. Rating: Average Price: Specialty: Comments: The food there was excellent and very well priced. Name of the restaurant: Nader City/State/Country: New York City/New York/USA Street Address: Manhattan, around 29th and Park Ave. Phone: Their number was listed in the phone book. Rating: Average Price: $10 Specialty: Iranian food!! Comments: pretty good and clean. Name of the restaurant: Baabee Kababi City/State/Country: New York/New York/USA Street Address: Broadway and 37th (or was it 32nd?) st. Phone: Rating: Average Price: Specialty: Comments: It was quite nice and CLEAN! Name of the restaurant: Reza's Restaurant City/State/Country: Chicago/Illinois/U.S.A. Street Address: ??? Clark Street (Clark and Foster int) Phone: Rating: 4, 4 Average Price: $8-10 Specialty: Chelo-kabak Comments: Reza returant Best I have had. Name of the restaurant: Pars Cove Cafe City/State/Country: Chicago/Illinois/USA Street Address: About 2-3 miles north of the center of town (Diversey Parkway?) Phone: Rating: 2-3 Average Price: $10 Specialty: Comments: Small restaurant just below ground level with sky lights near the street. Live music (when I was there anyway). I had an afternoon lunch/dinner there when I was in Chicago in Nov. 1990. The food was OK for the price. Name of the restaurant: Kabob Korner City/State/Country: Columbus/Ohio/USA Street Address: 400 North Hight Street, Columbus OH 43215 Phone: (614)221-6636 Rating: 2 Average Price: $6.00 or $7.00 Specialty: Chelo-kabab, jojeh-kabab, Hawaiian-chicken Comments: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< U.S.A./Middle >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Name of the restaurant: Ahmad's Restaurant City/State/Country: Omaha/Nebraska/USA Street Address: Old Market Phone: Rating: Average Price: Specialty: Comments: Name of the restaurant: Caspian Bistro (Minneapolis) City/State/Country: Minneapolis/Minnesota/USA Street Address: 2418 University Avenue SE, 1 mile from U. of Minnesota Phone: (612)623-1113 Rating: 4 Average Price: $6.00 - $7.00 Specialty: Chelo-kabab, jojeh-kabab, Kabab-Sultani Comments: Small family atmosphere, Azeri/Turkish/Persian music, The food compares well with that of Reza's in Chicago. VERY good for the price. The place is very clean although it is not fancy. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< U.S.A./West >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Name of the restaurant: Flamingo City/State/Country: Seattle/Washington/USA Street Address: 4031 200th St. S.W., Lynnwood, WA 98036 Phone: 206-744-1664 Rating: 2 Average Price: $10 Specialty: Cholo kabab, Joojeh kabab Comments: Italian cusine, owner Iranian Name of the restaurant: Meenar City/State/Country: Seattle/Washington/USA Street Address: 12359 Lake City Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98125 Phone: 206-367-5666 Rating: 2 Average Price: $10 Specialty: Cholo kabab, Joojeh kabab Comments: Middle Eastern, owner Pakestani Name of the restaurant: Market Plaza Restaurant & Lounge City/State/Country: Portland/Oregan/USA Street Address: 101 SW Market Phone: 503 248-0318 Rating: 5 (excellent) Average Price: $10 Specialty: American Fine Dinning.. Comments: very good food and atmosphere but service is slow Name of the restaurant: Peeazcheh "Green Onion Restaurant & Launge" City/State/Country: Portland/Oregan/USA Street Address: DownTown Portland, 15 SW 2nd Ave Phone: 503 227-2372 Rating: 2 Average Price: $9 Specialty: Comments: Not as good as Market Plaza Name of the restaurant: City Girll City/State/Country: Boise/Idaho/USA Street Address: Orchard Road Phone: Rating: 3 Average Price: $8 Specialty: Comments: Good food Name of the restaurant: Shish-kabab City/State/Country: Boulder/Colorado/USA Street Address: 1310 College Ave. "On the Hill" Phone: Rating: 3-4 Average Price: $5-$10 Specialty: chello-kabab, joojeh-kabab Comments: Owner's name is Hossein AghA. Fast food place. Name of the restaurant: Shish-kabab City/State/Country: Boulder/Colorado/USA Street Address: Crossroads Mall Food Court, 30th Street, Northern Entrance Phone: Rating: 3-4 Average Price: $5-$10 Specialty: chello-kabab, joojeh-kabab Comments: Fast food place. Name of the restaurant: Shish-kabab City/State/Country: Denver/Colorado/USA Street Address: Downtown Tivoli Center, Larimer Street, Denver Phone: Rating: 3-4 Average Price: $5-$10 Specialty: chello-kabab, joojeh-kabab Comments: Fast food place. Name of the restaurant: Sorento City/State/Country: Denver/Colorado/USA Street Address: Hampden Avenue about 3 miles east of I-70 and Hampden Phone: Rating: 3-4 Average Price: $6-$14, sometimes there is a $8/person min charge Specialty: Comments: Denver's Only Iranian Nightclub (I think), Live Music, Dancing Open only on weekend nights (I think) Name of the restaurant: Maykadeh City/State/Country: San Fransisco/CA/USA Street Address: 470 Green/near Grant and Union streets/located in North beach area Phone: (415) 362-8286 Rating: 5/4.5 (I don't give out 5's!)/very good Average Price: $10.00+/$12/$9-$14 Specialty: chelo-kebab,Ghormeh-sabzi, gheimeh,Fesenjoon, tacheen, Khoreshte Baudemjoon and other specialties Comments: Great place for a business lunch or a dinner date. They even bottle their own wine! Parking is a problem, however they have valet. It is a small place, so making a reservation is good idea. / Big Skewers of Kabob. Best Persian Restaurant in the entire Bay Area Excellant service. Shiraz wine. Maykadeh in San Francisco is the best Iranian restaurant in the bay area. No mirrors, excellent food, excellent service. Ask to sit in "Firoozeh khAnoom's" section. Name of the restaurant: Hafez City/State/Country: San Fransisco/CA/USA Street Address: Union Street (I think Union and Webster) Phone: Rating: 3 Average Price: $6-$13 Specialty: Comments: Name of the restaurant: Kasra City/State/Country: San Fransisco/CA/USA Street Address: Clement St. (3rd and Clement) Phone: Rating: 4 Average Price: $7-$13 Specialty: Comments: Lots of mirrors Name of the restaurant: Volga City/State/Country: Berkeley/CA/USA Street Address: Center & Oxford, downtown Berkeley Phone: Rating: 5 Average Price: Specialty: Russian & Persian cuisine Comments: Excellent food, central asian and middle eastern leanings with some Russian. Name of the restaurant: Khayyam City/State/Country: Berkeley/CA/USA Street Address: Solano Avenue Phone: Rating: 2.5 Average Price: $6-$12 Specialty: watery Khoreshts! Comments: Name of the restaurant: Casablanca City/State/Country: Albany/CA/USA Street Address: San Pablo Ave. (San Pablo and Center) Phone: Rating: 3-4 Average Price: $7-$13 Specialty: Comments: nightclub upstairs Name of the restaurant: Tee Sara City/State/Country: San Jose/CA/USA Street Address: 1138 Saratoga Ave. Phone: (408)241-5115 Rating: 3 Average Price: $7-$11 Specialty: ? Comments: Looks like a fast food joint. Service is not too hot, but good food (and lots of it) for the money. Name of the restaurant: Caspian (Sunnyvale) City/State/Country: Sunnyvale/CA/USA (Santa Clara) Street Address: 1063 E. El Camino Real Phone: (408) 248-6332 Rating: 4 / 5 Excellent Average Price: $12.00 / $9-$14 Specialty: Kabob, Northern dishes such as "ghalyeh mAhi, zeytoon parvardeh" Comments: classy set-up, decorated like a genuine persian Coffee House ( ghah- ve- khooneh) Daily specials, good service, a family place. Name of the restaurant: Baccarat City/State/Country: Sunnyvale/CA/USA Street Address: El Camino Real (El Camino and Lawrence Expwy) Phone: Rating: Average Price: $6-$14 Specialty: Comments: Becomes a nightclub after dark. Recently opened and attended by SCI. SCI Lunchers do not approve. Poor Service, raw food (as in raw joojeh kabab) Name of the restaurant: Chelokababi City/State/Country: Sunnyvale/CA/USA Street Address: 1236 Wolfe Rd. Phone: (408) 737-1222 Rating: 4 Average Price: $8-$12 Specialty: ? Comments: Lots of food for the money. SCI approved! :-) Located in heart of the Sillicon Valley. Perhaps not a family restaurant for lunch. Name of the restaurant: R's Kabob City/State/Country: Sunnyvale/CA/USA Street Address: on El Camino, across from The toyota dealer in sunnyvale. Thats a couple of blocks south of 'kabul' restaurant. Phone: Rating: Average Price: $4 Specialty: Cholo-kabab, joojeh-kabab Comments: The food tastes _great_. by far the healthiest food of any speed (fast or slow) that I have had recently. The place is extremely clean and pleasant. a nice place to impress your co-workers with a taste of persian fast food! for around 3.50 or 4.00 bucks you get a seekh of marinated & BBQ'd chicken (or beef or lamb), a seekh of BBQd vegies, a big slice of warmed noon bar'baree, seasoned rice, a big scoop of potato salad, a slice of orange, and a zeytoon! Name of the restaurant: Chattanogga / Chatanoga City/State/Country: Santa Clara/CA/USA (San Jose) Street Address: 2725 El Camino Rea Phone: (408) 241-1200 Rating: 3 Average Price: $7 / $8-$12 Specialty: All Kinds of persian food- from Mirza-Ghasemi to Kashke-Baudemjoon very wide selection of all sort of Polo dishes, Khoreshts and Kebabs. Comments: Live entertainment the quality seems to be better at lunch as opposed to dinner. This is a huge place. Free salad bar w/ purchase of an entree. Live entertainment on weekends. Full bar. Name of the restaurant: Shamshiri City/State/Country: San Jose/CA/USA Street Address: 1392 S. Bascom Ave. Phone: (408) 998-0122 Rating: 4 Average Price: $8-$12 Specialty: ? Comments: Located next to an Iranian store. Name of the restaurant: Shahrezad City/State/Country: Los AngelesA/CA/USA Street Address: Westwood Blvd. Phone: Rating: 4 Average Price: $10.00+ Specialty: Comments: They have two restaurants next each other, and in one of them they bake their own bread in a tanour. Very delicious. Name of the restaurant: KhAneh-ye to (Your house) City/State/Country: LA/California/USA Street Address: Beverly Hills Phone: Rating: 3 (scale 1-5) Average Price: Specialty: extensive menu (KabAb koobideh, Zeresk Polo, ...) Commenty: dishes were excellent. was very clean and the food was very good. Very nicely decorated. was packed on a Sunday afternoon. Name of the restaurant: Shamshiri (there are 2 of them in LA) City/State/Country: Los Angeles/CA/USA Street Address: one is in Hollywood blvd. the other in Westwood Phone: Rating: 3 Average Price: about $10.00 Specialty: Comments: You get more than you can eat! Name of the restaurant: Darya City/State/Country: Orange County/California/USA Street Address: Phone: Rating: 5 Average Price: Specialty: Comments: Name of the restaurant: Orchid City/State/Country: Orange County/California/USA Street Address: 405 Fwy and Bristol, across from Red Lion Inn Hotel Phone: (714)557-8070 Rating: Average Price: Specialty: Comments: Name of the restaurant: Caspian City/State/Country: Orange County/California/USA Street Address: Culver Dr. and 5 Fwy Phone: (714)651-8454 Rating: Average Price: Specialty: Comments: Name of the restaurant: Omar Khayam City/State/Country: Orange County/California/USA Street Address: El Toro Road & 5 Fwy Phone: Rating: Average Price: Specialty: Comments: <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Contributors: Amir Taghavi Ala U_c bashir@acsu.buffalo.edu (Noushin Bashir) Reza Mahdavi Massoud SR Hashemi masoud@mips.com (Masoud Sadrolashrafi) qmars+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Kiumarse Zamanian) keivan@wuphys.wustl.edu (Keivan Esfarjani) manizh@src.umd.edu (Reza Shahidi) Kees van't Hoff Soheila Amiri Behzad Shari Deiana Ahmet Cosar asya@ux5.lbl.gov (Asya Kamsky) voder!nsc!tavakoli@apple.com (Majid Tavakoli) emma@ktas.dk (Emma) JJELIAS@amherst.edu Mahmood Namazi smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi) Brad Hernlem (hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU) Aref (aref@Tehran.Stanford.EDU) [love them ch'kababs :-)] Bahman Khamneian (bahman@mdd.comm.mot.com) Babak Nabili (Babak=Nabili%Comm=Prod%PCPD=Hou@bangate.compaq.com) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bahman Khamneian | INTERNET:bahman@mdd.comm.mot.com Tel: (206)487-5947 | UUCP: ... uunet!mdisea!bahman Fax: (206)483-3400 | ... uw-beaver!uw-coco!mdisea!bahman | Motorola-MTA-ID: ctr001 Motorola Inc. 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