Persian food

[jethrien]

I went to a Persian restaurant over the weekend (which was excellent), and I'm eating the leftovers now. Still delicious.

It's funny, though, because now I can actually see my food. The restaurant was a very nice, classy restaurant, at night, and so the lighting was soft and dim. In the harsh light of my office, my food's color is positively lurid. The saffron rice is really yellow, the cherry rice is a very off-putting shade of pink, the stew is really unattractive. (It all still smells and tastes wonderful, I'm not complaining.) But it's impressive how much better things look in romantic lighting and good plating versus in a plastic tupperware under florescents.

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

The stew did look like cat food. I agree. But so good. Had the next day and still so good. My breath still smelled like pickled garlic for quite a while, though.

I think I have new birthday dinner venue...

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

No more Dallas BBQ? Alas!

I'm just as happy to have finished my kabobs--they were very good, but I don't think they would have held up as well as the stew did.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Yeah, cat food is an accurate description of the look. And oh yeah, so good.

I certainly wouldn't object to going back.

[fyrna.livejournal.com]

What kind of stew was it?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Khorest fesenjan - chicken with walnuts and pomegranate.

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you all liked the taste of my cultural dishes, if not perhaps the way they look as leftovers :-P

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

To be fair, an awful lot of foods look pretty terrible once they've been scraped together and dumped in a takeout container.

It really was an awesome restaurant - I fully intend to go back. Thank you for finding it for us!

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

It was my pleasure!

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

Noooooo now I have a Persian food craving and the only place around here closed before I even got to try it