The smell of burning charcoal at Farmers Market in downtown San Luis Obispo brings people to authentic Persian kebabs each Thursday night. Shekamoo Grill is known for its stand at the market — and now ...

Love any of these recipes? Tap "Save" to add them to MyRecipes, your new, free recipe box for Food & Wine. Though this recipe can be made with plain whole-milk yogurt, it's worth seeking out Iranian ...

Persian New Year, also known as “Nowruz” or “Nooruz,” which literally translates as “new day,” celebrates the start of a new year on the Persian calendar. This year’s celebration, which took place on ...

We followed it with Persian tea and bamieh, a traditional sweet that’s basically a small, crispy ball of dough soaked in sugar syrup. Our final stop was Sahand Restaurant, where we watched them make ...

Spring’s green shades were a tonic saturating the dishes served at the Azizam pop-up dinner on Monday night, held in the space recently vacated by Konbi in Echo Park. The meal began with sabzi khordan ...

Persian restaurants have long felt like the Moose, Elks and Rotary Clubs of our Iranian population. Head for the Persian restaurants of Westwood — the ethnic ’hood known as both Little Tehran and ...

A blue leaf blower fans the flames of a charcoal grill in a Santa Monica parking lot, wafting smoke and ash in the direction of hopeful diners. People anxiously await straightforward skewers like ...

London’s Berenjak has made its way to Los Angeles. The Michelin Bib Gourmand-winning contemporary Iranian restaurant opened in downtown L.A.’s Arts District’s Soho Warehouse on Sept. 24, but they gave ...

An offshoot of owner Masoud Tehrani’s Manhattan original (est. 1998), Ravagh's Roslyn Heights location was closed for much of 2024, reopening in 2025 after a major renovation that modernized the ...