Persian2 months ago
Royal Persia
A Persian kitchen operating extended hours, seven days a week with late-night service until midnight on weekdays and 3 a.m.
Willowdale · North York5372 Yonge St, North York, ON M2N 5R5
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On weekends. The menu centres on the foundational dishes of Iranian cuisine: charcoal-grilled Kebabs, rice dishes stewed preparations that define the cooking. Persian kitchens serve a diaspora community seeking the specific flavour profiles and techniques of home cooking, particularly those from urban Tehran and provincial centres. The kitchen's calling card is the range of seekh-skewered proteins and slow-cooked stews built on aromatic spice bases, available for dine-in or takeout at hours that accommodate shift work and late gatherings common to the community it serves.
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