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    Javan Persian Restaurant - Saffron rice pudding. Delicious

    Javan Persian Restaurant

    2.3(3 reviews)
    6.5 km

    For a long time, Hornsby was a cultural desert food wise. Dining options consisted of pizza or a…read moreselection of dodgy 1970s vintage Chinese places. You know the sort - gloopy sweet sauces, hasn't been redecorated since 1978, serving the same set of increasingly elderly regulars for the last 40 years, sweet and sour pork, lemon chicken. Anyway, this has been changing over the last few years and Javan is the latest addition to Hornsby's rapidly growing food scene. It has opened up where one of those old Chinese places closed down (I think the last of their regular customers must have died) and brings traditional Persian cooking to the heart of Hornsby's old side. It's small but not crowded. The staff are friendly and very welcoming. They have traditional Persian dancing some nights. It's quiet and relaxed and friendly. Those are great features but what about the important stuff... How was the food? The food was great. We are no strangers to Persian cuisine having become regulars at Hornsby's other Persian restaurant (which is down the highway a bit towards Waitara). We grabbed a few dishes we knew (so that we could compare) and a few that we didn't. This is the one advantage to dining with teenagers - you can order pretty much everything on the menu and still not have too much food. Chicken in walnut and pomegranate sauce, mixed kebab platters, buttery saffron rice, fresh bread, salads. It was all great. Generously sized very tasty and reasonably priced. One thing to note for the mobility impaired - it is up a fairly steep flight of stairs and we didn't see any lift/ramp access. We are now faced with a dilemma - which of the two great Persian places in hornsby do we go to? First world problems...

    Not sure about Persian food, was a first timer at this place and first time eating Persian found…read moreit dry and not very tasty. The owner just hangs about and it lacks day core. May try another Persian restaurant some day.

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    Chicken, walnut and pomegranate.

    Cyrus the Great Restaurant - Outside tables

    Cyrus the Great Restaurant

    3.0(3 reviews)
    16.3 km

    Location, location, location... and this doesn't have it…read more This restaurant is tucked away below, under and around the back of a retail complex in Castlecrag that also happens to be at the end of the street my mum lives in. Over the last 20 years I've seen 4 or 5 different restaurants come and go, and I feel for them because they can be the best places in the world, but nobody knows they're there and there's no foot traffic. The kit-out at Cyrus is terrific, it's cozy and classy all at once, transporting you right back to Persia (assuming that you've, y'know, been there before. Or hell, maybe you've just seen Aladdin about a hundred times). The menu is heavy on delicious, spiced lamb and beef shish kebabs, great mounds of fragrant rice, char-grilled chilli, minted yoghurts, and lots of eggplant dishes. I wasn't a giant fan of the pickled vegetables for entree - quite vinegary - but that probably says more about my palate than the dish itself. The lamb kebab was unreal, confirming my suspicions that I am indeed a Meat Man. Always was, always will be. Take that statement as you will.

    Well this place looks the part but that's about it. Being a person who doesn't eat meat, there is…read morebugger all to eat on the menu. Started with garlic yogurt, nice and creamy but no garlic, and a salad with a very strange lemon dressing. Next we had a fish kebab, very dry and tasteless, with only plain boiled rice. The vegetable casserole was ok but there wasn't much of it. It looked like an accompaniment to a meat dish. We couldn't have the Persian dessert, as they didn't have any that night, or coffee because no one could make it. Maybe it's better on a Saturday night, but I won't be back to find out.

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    Cyrus the Great Restaurant - The cushion room

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    Lamb kebabs

    Bastani - icecream - Updated October 2026

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