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    Daarbaand - Inside tables

    Daarbaand

    4.2(24 reviews)
    51.4 km•Oud West, Helmersbuurt, West
    •€€

    We had few options for Persian food in town but we decided to go with this one after reading the…read morereviews. We walked to the restaurant from our hotel and it was in easy to find spot. The waitress was so friendly and explained whatever we needed. The food came out fresh and great! We ordered a plate of one skewer of lamb and one skewer of chicken breast (Kobide & Joojeh) with side of the yoghurt and cucumber and shirazy salad. We devoured the food very quickly, from the rice to the meat to the sides everything was extremely tasty! We will visit this restaurant one more time before we leave and each time we visit Amsterdam.

    I wasn't hungry anymore... but I so wanted to keep eating... luckily my wallet prevented me from…read moregoing on. This review will be slightly biased since I have Persian heritage, but unlike most people who will turn knit picky and judgmental because their "mom can do it better" or whatever, I find this place absolutely delightful because you don't have many Persian restaurants in Holland and this place simply nails it with textures and flavors. If you think you know "KEBOB" then forget everything you think you know. "kebob/kebab" is a Persian word which simply means "grilled food" or more accurately "charbroiled food". Anything can be kebob, even a tomato. The flavor of the ground meat kebob here is superb!!! Ground meat is called "koobideh" and I highly recommend it. You get a portion of white high grade basmati rice topped off with some saffron basmati rice. The rice is VERY flavorful, floral and the texture is very, very good! Persian style rice is absolutely NON-sticky basmati with a soft core. They cook it and then steam it. You get two charbroiled tomatoes on the side with your dish which is awesome! I love charbroiled tomatoes on the side, and so will you! (seriously, shut up and try it). When I put the first piece of "koobideh" (charbroiled ground meat) in my mouth it was, and I took the liberty to translate this awesome Dutch saying that I've adopted because it makes sense, an angel was pissing on my tongue. It was THAT good! The service is very typical Persian as well. Nice, attentive and warm! He kept calling me and my cousin "my darling" in Persian, kind of a-la chef Ramsey. It's been a while since I've been around real Persians so it felt refreshing and warm. Persians have this sour yoghurt drink that's thinner than buttermilk and they add mountain herbs to it from the Persian regions and it's called "doogh". However, here they have a commercial version of it that I really liked it's without the herbs but its carbonated instead! A fizzy buttermilk! Awesome. BUT, in all honesty, this is something that you will either absolutely hate or absolutely love. So be warned. And then we had Persian ice cream! (I forgot to take a picture as I gobbled it down before the waiter/owner could let go of the dish itself). It's flavored with natural ingredients such as rosewater, saffron and pistachios. I'd go there for just that alone! If there's a pet peeve then it's the saffron topped rice which didn't really taste like saffron but had the color, only. Perhaps because of the high cost of saffron, the relatively cheap menu and because the busy night that they came short. I don't know but honestly, I don't mind that much since the rice itself was very fruity and floral in flavor.

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