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Tue Jun 12 2012
One of few Iranian places in London offering glamorous interior design and an atmosphere more in keeping with a Modern European restaurant, Tandis features romantic dark wood furniture, bare brick walls embellished with painted symbols, and a large mirrored and backlit bar – appropriate, given the unusually good wine list. An intimate rear room sports leather booth seating, though we opted for a spot by the big windows overlooking Haverstock Hill.
Food was generally excellent, and refreshingly authentic given the restaurant’s upmarket ambience. A starter of sabzi-o panir was a heaped plate of fresh mixed herbs cut with crumbly blocks of feta and walnuts, while kookoo sabzi (herb omelette) was wonderfully aromatic and rich with olive oil. To follow, khoresht geymeh bademjan (lamb, aubergine and split-pea stew) was close to perfection, as was the accompanying saffron-tinted rice, but the meat in a baghali polo ba mahicheh (lamb shank with broad bean and dill-infused rice) was a touch dry. The only other duff note came via the overpowering piano music on the stereo: off-putting, given the mere handful of customers on a quiet weekday lunchtime.
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