Driving down Bathurst Street over the past few months, I have observed the new-ish restaurant Taste of Persia.
Curious, I resolved to pop in there, and eventually did tonight. The menu is not huge but enough to give anyone a really good sample of the various dishes and flavours of this country’s food. (Persia is the olden days name for Iran.)
After chatting to the owners of the business for a while, I decided on 2 dishes. I wanted to get a typical cross section of their country’s food. Firstly a small serving ($11.50) of Lamb and Herbs, served with saffron basmati rice, lettuce, red onions, tomato, cucumber, herb yoghurt. It says on the menu that, additional to those salad ingredients I already listed, it is also served with hummus and garden fresh herbs of the season – but those weren’t there amongst my salad!
It was really strange – but nice. Different. I liked it. In appearance, it looked like a muddy, bean-y meat dish. The lamb had been cooked for a very long time, so was shredded rather than solid chunks of lamb. The beans contained therein were kidney beans. The rice was served in a separate container, and was garnished with pomegranate seeds. The salad was also in a separate container.
My second selection was Bakhtiari, or Lamb and Chicken flame grilled kebabs on skewers, also served with the identical salad, separately, as for the previous lamb dish. The Bakhtiari was priced at $17. It too was nice.
The quality of the meat was excellent. I was impressed with that, because I’m so used to having sub-standard (cheap and shitty) meat being used in these kinds of dishes. So it was most enlightening to find that not so.
I would definitely recommend this place as somewhere to try if you’re wanting something a bit different.
It’s situated diagonally across from the State Library, at 123a Bathurst Street, and they’re open Mon-Fri 12.00 till 2.30; and 5.00 till 9.00 pm. They also have a food van at the market on a Saturday. Their food contains no msg, preservatives or artificial flavourings.
Friday, 27 June 2008
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Glad you tried and liked it Rita.
me and the missus saw it one lunchtime recently and wanted to go. But we couldn't get parked anywhere near (lazy bugs) and ended up giving it a miss.
We will make fresh efforts, at night maybe.
Glad you're going to try that one Sir G because someone at work told me a really bad story about their experience last Sat night at the new-ish Indian one in Sandy Bay Rd, which used to be the old Dolphin Fish Shop. That's the one you said you'd been to. The story really put me off trying there.
Sorry to hear that, the guys looked after us. By the way, the Persian Chicken Special was one of my favourites back in Britain.
My favourite Indian made a beaut version.
It was a Chicken Pilau with a plain omelette over the top to keep the whole thing moist and juicy. They served it with a salad and a side of vegetable curry (mild, medium or hot).
Boy, was it good.
They had a stall at last year's "Taste of Tasmania" and the food was excellent with plenty of nice fresh herbs. I walk past their Bathurst St premises every other day so it's about time I tried some more!
What was the alleged woe at the Indian Place, Rita?
It was a long story which actually needs dialogue to go along with it - because half of the story is in the speaking of it - but the other half involves the fact that the person ordered Garlic Naan (which was too oily), Chicken Tikka Marsala (which was gristle-y) and Mango Lassi, which was off. When his complaint was eventually understood, it was claimed the lassi couldn't be off because it had been made that day. When customer insisted it was still off, they gave in and went away and made a fresh one which wasn't off.
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