Iran Restaurant, London - UK

As you may already knew, Shepherd Market is a food paradise for both locals and visitors. From Iranian restaurant, Lebanese, Japanese, French to Indian and many more are there at your choice. You will be spoiled, as we did..


In the mood of trying something completely new, we popped in to this tiny corner restaurant that looked rather cute. As we had a reasonably nice weather at that particular day (rather a rare occasion being in England :)) we saw few tables set up outside for customers who fancy dining al fresco. But that did not temp us. We preferred to dine in. Observing the interior, we found it was nicely decorated.  Bottles of wine stacked tidily on the wall, clean and crisp table cloth, plus fresh carnations to add a special touch, chairs were reasonably comfortable too. Though we found the L-shaped bar was overpowering the whole lay out of the restaurant.

The menu. It was described in two languages, Arabic and English. No luck with the arabic menu, we went for the English version, that helped us a lot. So we decided to have Lentil soup as starter with freshly baked nan. As main course we had Khorest Ghormeh and Khorest Ghameh with a bottle of Veuve Cliquot Rose.

The lentil soup turned out well above our expectation, so tasty, yet light. With a few drizzle of lemon juice, it tasted even better. The nan bread was good too... not heavy or filling. Perfect starter to tease our taste buds. 

Khorest Ghameh is basically stew, in this case was lamb with split peas, tomato paste and of course herbs. The meat was melting in the mouth, the gravy was hearty but not too heavy even when we ate it with rice. Very impressed indeed.

Khorest Ghormeh is similar type of stew but made with spinach, dill, parsley, cilantro etc.. It may looked  less appetizing, but it tasted very good. With the amount of veggies in it, we assumed it was a healthier option to the khorest ghameh. 

The rice. It was a combination of white rice and saffron rice. No better combination than those stew and  the rice. On top of that, all the food went really well with our random choice of Veuve Cliquot Rose champagne. 


We were really pleased with out little adventure that day, average service, but excellent food. Next time we would go back there to try their caviar collections which were unavailable at that particular day. We would let you know how we get on.. 


Iran
27 Shepherd Market, London W1J 7PR
Phone: +44 20 7409 3337
Website: http://www.iranrestaurant.co.uk/contact-us