Chef Alon Shaya's Saba (5757 Magazine St., 504-324-7770) is serving Persian food to kick off a series of special menus of cuisines from the Middle East. The Persian menu is inspired by dishes from ...

Owner Reza Ghobadi in his Tarzana restaurant's dining room (Photo by Josh Lurie) “Happy Birthday” signs decorated walls and chairs were situated on a stage by the window, remnants of a weekend party.

There was a time when — if you had a hankering for nice plate or kashke bademjan, tahdig or fesenjoon — you had to negotiate the terrors of the Ventura Freeway, and the quirks of the 405, to make your ...

Last November, chef Matteo Lo Bianco took a crash course in Persian food. Each day he’d show up at Farzad Shahsavarani’s house and begin cooking under the eye of his former boss, and his sister ...

Lea el artículo en español aquí. An ornate silver samovar and delicate teacups sit on the counter at Viva Mēxicana, owner Sima Mohamadian’s cozy Sebastopol restaurant — a gleaming emblem of the ...

It’s January and most of us hunger for healthful foods that aren’t boring. Irvine Grill, which opened in September during the pandemic, is worth a fresh look, having just added lunch deals to the menu ...

In June 2020, the rent went up for Persian Garden Café, the Persian restaurant at the courtyard plaza at 15th Avenue and Thomas Road that’s been around since 2001. Founders Mahmoud and Afsaneh Jaafari ...

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Nearly two years after Shiraz Grille closed, a new Persian restaurant has popped up on 28th Street. (An August 2022 photo shows the menu for Backyard Persian ...