It baffles me that Göteborg, although having a large numbers of ethnic Persians living there for decades, doesn't have much to offer when it comes to good Iranian restaurants...
So I just visited "Fanous Restaurant", a grill house only serving kabobs and dizi. So if you're looking for more traditional Persian dishes, this isn't the place. No Baghalee polo or zereshk polo here...They tricked me by charging 20 kr for the yoghurt and water mixture in the dispenser, and wrongfully calling it "doogh". That was NOT doogh and I did mentioned it but instead of giving me an honest answer, the owner made me pay. Woaw what a horrible service!
However, my koobideh was heavenly: the meat was so delicious, it melted in my mouth. And because this is a grill house, the meat is top #1 priority.
On the plate, I had a grilled tomato sliced in two halves, three leaves of parsley, a spoon of yoghurt sauce and two steaming koobidehs.
Apart from iceberg salad, coleslaw, corn, slices of red onions, olives with dill and a horrible orange coloured dressing, the salad bar had the usual components, except for seer torshi (pickled garlic). That was delicious.
There were two dispensers, one with water and the other was yoghurt mixed with water (not doogh). I later found out that there were also a soup included which The staf didn't informed me of.
The rice wasn't good at all.
The traditional seasoning for koobideh is a dark red to violet colored sour spice called Sumac. The Sumac in Fanous was grayish brown and didnt taste anything. So that was a huge minus.
I can excuse the bad rice and the funky looking/tasting Sumac but tricking me to pay for something that was obviously NOT doogh is inexcusable.
So my advice is to avoid this place. Avoid it at any cost! read more