Diced cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions mixed with olive oil, lemon juice, and seasoning provides a pleasant combination to prepare you for your dining experience.

The Middle Easterners have known mast, now very popular in the western world as yogurt, for centuries. It is widely believed to contribute to long life and good health. The unique tart flavors of the yogurt and shallots make for a delicious dish.

Each homemaker has their own special touch and salad dressing. Shamshiry's has lettuce, cucumber, tomato, sliced black olives, kidney beans, and goat cheese.

This appetizer of eggplant, parsley, garlic, mint, cilantro, vinegar, salt, spices, and black caraway in uniquely Persian and extremely palatable.

Panir or goat's cheese raw vegetables and herbs (radishes, basil, scallions, tarragon, or fresh mint)

This yogurt appetizer is served with diced cucumbers, chopped fresh dill and other herbs.

This exquisite dish will provide an exciting experience. The rice is studded with tart, dried red currants, giving it a wonderful sour taste explosion. The delightful and delectable taste will enchant and surprise you.

This colorful and exotic dish is topped with syrupy sour cherries. It's particularly good when chicken is included.

The sweet rice is seasoned with spices, perfumed with sugared orange peel, and made crunchy with pistachios and almonds. It tastes as if imaginative honeybees created it.

One of the more famous and extremely tasteful dishes is Baghali Polo, where dill is used in combination with rice and soft good tasting fava beans. It's a treat you will want to share.

Chelo Kabob is derived from two words: Chelo meaning cooked rice, and Kabob meaning open-flame broiled meat. The best Chelo Kabob was served at the Shamshiry restaurant in the Tehran bazaar. Whether it was the secret of the owner, nobody knows. But anybody who has tried this dish at the bazaar has never forgotten it. Now it's your chance to enjoy a combination of Chelo Kabob Kubideh and Chelo Kabob Barg. As it was prepared in Tehran, where Shamshiry was the hallmark for quality Kabob ? THE BEST.

A combination of Chicken Kabob and Kubideh.

The finest of all Kabobs is Kabob Barg. The secret of good Chelo Kabob is in the marinating of the meat. There is an Old Persian tradition as to how one should eat Chelo Kabob. The proper way of serving it is to put plenty of Chelo on a plate, make a small hole in the center of it, put the egg yolk in it, then plenty of butter, and sprinkle sumac over it. Mix well and start treating your self to the elegant taste of Filet Mignon. Fine food at its best.

Kabob is the Persian word for meat or fowl cooked over a charcoal fire. There delicious strips of charcoal broiled ground meat are served with a snowy mound of rice topped with saffron. All the beef dishes achieve greatness when you add a raw egg yolk on the side, which you rapidly pour into the hot rice, continuing to toss it so that the egg coats all the grains as the heat cooks it. Stir in as much butter as you dare, and sprinkle in the brown powdered sumac that's in a shaker on the table. It's tart spiciness is irresistible.

Fresh salmon bursting with juices, the grill having seared the surface so that the inside virtually steams. A mild fish that is pleasant in flavor and enjoyable to savor. The rice, which comes with the salmon, is tinted an intriguing greenish beige and seductively flavored by dill, and soft delicious fava beans. You'll fancy, love, and delight in this meal. Some say it's spectacular.

Cornish hen marinated in an original recipe, crisp edged and juicy is served in big chunks, on the bone, with rice. "Wonderful" is the way it has been described. Since rice is the daily food of the people of Persia, the Persian homemaker, through years of practice, has developed a special method of cooking the rice in order to preserve its entire natural flavor and produce a light and fluffy delicacy. Relish the experience.

Chicken kabob is made with breast meat that has been marinated in a special recipe. Persians serve chicken for the same occasions that Americans serve turkey. If the Persian homemaker has a guest, she will almost always serve some form of chicken. This is special. The chicken, served with rice in a snowy mound, will give your meal a whole new meaning.

Big chunks of skewered breast meat that is moist, tender, and flavored with a fiery green herb paste. This method of cooking may have been developed from a civilization that thrived nearly four thousands years ago and Chicken Tandoori has become an international favorite over the years. The delectable and flavored rice that comes with the Chicken Tandoori will only add to your pleasure.

A whipped cream roll. Very light.

Zolbia is a sweet pretzel shaped fritter flavored with rose water syrup. It is firm, not quite crispy, but rather delicate. Bamieh is a saffron flavored pastry. Grooves are the distinctive design of this sweet.

Baklava is considered the grandest of all pastries. It is light, crisp and delicate. This pastry is present at every party and is served on every occasion. The small diamond shapes of buttery, crumbly dough filled with walnuts or pistachios and topped with rose water or honey is a delightful way to end a meal. The taste of baklava will please you.