Restaurants

Alounak

Perhaps it’s a case of good nights and bad nights – nothing has changed on the surface, after all. Alounak’s front room remains a temple to the kind of token...

Olympia: 10 Russell Gardens, W14 8EZ

Faanoos

London’s numerous Iranian restaurants seem divided between those attempting to evoke the opulence of ancient Persia and those content to emulate the warm familiarity...

Barnes: 481 Upper Richmond Road West, SW14 7PU

Mohsen

Mohsen may be bracketed by a pair of moribund boozers and opposite a Homebase, but the temptation here is to wind your watch forward three hours and start working on...

Olympia: 152 Warwick Road, W14 8PS

Sufi

You know you’re dealing with an authentic Iranian restaurant when you find the provincial bean and noodle soup, ash-e reshteh, on the menu: even more so when it’s...

Shepherd's Bush: 70 Askew Road, W12 9BJ

Alounak Kebab

Bayswater: 44 Westbourne Grove, W2 5SH

Hafez

Smaller and less glamorous than many of its competitors, Hafez is still popular with Iranian expats who relish its immunity to the slings and arrows of passing time....

Bayswater: 5 Hereford Road, W2 4AB

Mahdi

Swiss Cottage: 2 Chantfield Gardens, NW6 3BS

Patogh

‘ Dahaati ’ is a word used by Iran’s urban elite to describe people and places they consider rural or low-rent. Such snobs wouldn’t be seen dead in Patogh,...

Edgware Road: 8 Crawford Place, W1H 5NE

Tandis

Striking Iranian restaurant

Chalk Farm: 73 Haverstock Hill, NW3 4SL

Chella

Glam Iranian restaurant in Chiswick

Chiswick: 142 Chiswick High Road, W4 1PU