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    Taftan

    3.4 (14 reviews)

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    Robert H.

    Excellent food quality , flavour and cooked in perfection and taste. Authentic Persian decoration feels you are in Iran. Please keep up w your great hospitality. Thank you Wednesday sept 16 at 7:30.

    a platter of meat and vegetables

    The food was pretty good. The Kebab was delicious. The ice cream is not too good. The service is not bad. The ambience is pretty good. Spend $40 per person.

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    Girl working there was wearing unprofessional clothing and kept staring at us and made us very uncomfortable

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    4 years ago

    Nice atmosphere, clean restaurant, friendly staff and great food. I recommend it if you want some authentic and delicious Persian food.

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    Shamshiri Restaurant

    Shamshiri Restaurant

    4.1(15 reviews)
    4.1 kmWillowdale

    Decided to try this place out for a weeknight dinner as we were in the neighbourhood. We called in…read moreour order and were told it would be ready in 25-30 min. When we arrived, the smallish restaurant was packed with diners (only about 7-8 table in all) and there was a line up of people who were waiting for their takeout orders. We ended up getting our order 55 minutes after, not 30 minutes as we were told on the phone, so minus 1 star. Since it was our first time trying the restaurant, I ordered more food than we needed for our dinner to share with my in-laws who live nearby; family combo 2 and lamb neck dish. Little did I know that both orders would come with humongous portion of rice, which took us forever to finish. The family combo came with 2 juicy strips of well-seasoned koobideh, 1 skewer of breast and 1 skewer of dark meat joojeh kabob, 4 char-grilled tomatoes and good amount of grilled chilies (not spicy). The lamb neck dish included 3, fall-off-the-bone tender lamb pieces that were impossibly delicious. We opted for the rice with fava beans for this dish and it was super flavourful with addition of dill and other herbs. The overall first experience here was good and I hope to try out more of their offerings soon.

    I will put it right out there at the start. The food sizes are massive. Most meals come out in big…read moreserving plates topped with a rice mound surrounded by an assortment of side dishes. There is always that initial visual impact of being served that aesthetically-pleasing, enormous rice meal. The meals, big as they are, should be sufficient for 2 people to share. It will be even good enough for 3 people who are light eaters. The rice comes in 2 types and there is also some butter available to lather onto the rice. I personally do find it a little gimmicky and the meal sizes just a product of clever visual marketing. Most of what makes the whole portion sizes big is made up of rice which is not really a high value product item. The actual food itself or the protein while more than the typical meal elsewhere, is still not proportionate to the amount of carbohydrates that you get here. Later on in the meal, you would naturally get full fast if you try to balance out eating the food portions with the amount of rice served. We ordered the Baghali Polo & Lamb Shank ($25.99), Ghemei (Veal) Stew ($18.99), and the pureed eggplant dish Mirza Ghasemi ($11.99). The eggplant is highly recommended to have for starters. The cubed veal stew that we ordered pairs well with the saffron basmati rice. Their stew dish also comes with potato chips on the side to add some crunchy texture to the meal experience. I personally did not like how the lamb shank came out. I find it a a little undercooked. The muscle fibers of the thick meat chunk was not tender enough for my liking and the meat did not properly hold onto the rich flavors of the sauce it was cooked with. The whole dining experience was excellent. Our servers were very nice and polite. There were Persian decorations in the space, and some traditional music playing in the background.

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    3.6(159 reviews)
    6.1 km
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    Free parking
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    I usually don't have time to write reviews but this place was SO good, I realized it's a shame if…read moremore people don't know about it. Darbar had absolutely hands down the most delicious kabob koobideh and polo (rice) I have ever tasted. I'm also picky about my koobideh and this was the absolute BEST. I wish we lived in Toronto so we didn't have to wait until another trip to go back! PROS: The kabob had the perfect amount of flavor and was not too dry and not too greasy. The rice also was made to perfection, again fluffy and buttery tasting without being greasy or heavy. Both were mouth-wateringly delicious! In addition to the main entree, everything else, including the side vegetables were all incredibly fresh and tasty. The portion size was huge. At first I thought this place is expensive but then I realized that the size of each "seekh" (skewer) was almost double other places. My kids loved that it came with bread (surprisingly other Persian restaurants seem to skimp on that or charge extra). I loved the "sabzi khordan" (greens) that came with the bread. Even the cheese and walnuts were tastier that what I have at home! The service was excellent. A lovely young women named Pegah served us and couldn't have been any nicer. She wasn't fake nice but actually genuinely nice. I loved the outdoor seating. It was a little loud but they had nice Persian music playing which added to the atmosphere. The tea was delicious and served nicely. I'm surprised other Persian places have the nerve to offer not fresh tea or tea bag tea. This was definitely the real deal. Most people who eat Persian food drink their tea after but I actually love it with my meal. I did not like the spice they added to the tea but the nice server replaced it with regular Persian tea without the spices. CONS: If you're super sensitive to spices you may not enjoy eating inside as the aroma is strong. Most people may not notice or even care (I don't think the other members of my family even noticed) but I had to sit outside. If we go back to Toronto in the winter when outside seating is not an option, I may just do take-out. The same spice that made the inside smell so strong was also what they put in the tea. I wish I knew what it was...perhaps cinnamon or something similar? Overall, I will be dreaming about this place until our next trip back. Lucky you folks from Toronto who don't have to wait!

    We went there with friends. We invited our non-persians to this establishment. The food quality was…read moreOK compared to the prices charged. Nothing extraveganza. The worst part was when asked for water, they did not offer us tap water as they claim their tap water is not drinkable. And they charged us $5 per bottle of water. One would imagined that a restaurant, if doen't have drinkable water won't charge for bottled water, or at least let the patrons know in advance how much a bottled water is. Not recommend to anyone.

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