to the meal. As usual, we ordered everything family-style, sharing three appetizers: kashk bodemjan (roasted eggplant topped with crisp fried onions and garlic and mint and yogurt sauce) and two kinds of tah dig. Tah dig is crisp,...

to tzatziki – and "tah dig", which literally means “bottom of the pot”. It’s the carmelized, crispy, buttery rice at the bottom, and we Persians consider this a delicacy. At Alborz, it’s served with...

. For the best Ghormeh Sabzi I’ve had, you’ll have to drive an hour north to House of Kabob in Baltimore (BYOB) on Hartford Road. Try it on the tah dig as appetizer. And you have to order feta/herb/walnut/onion sabzi...

kaske bademjan (couisin of baba ganoush) mast-o-khier (like tzatziki) barley and vegetable aash (soup) chelo kebab koobideh (beef and lamb kebab) khoresht ghorme sabzee (lamb and eggplant stew) tah dig (crispy rice, not on the menu)...

Where is Medaterra ?? I go to the Persian Grill near Plymouth Whitemarsh / Roxboro and enjoy the food there (especially when the Tah Dig has not been snapped up by a regular ...)

, if that is interesting to you. There are nice pictures of a few dishes and the restaurant in this Marin Independent Journal Review which dicusses the following dishes: mast-o-musir kashk bodemjan Tah dig aash reshteh joojeh with bone...

to the meal. BIG FIND #1 The first big find was the tah dig appetizer ($6.95). I haven’t had a good rendition of this dish since my favorite Persian restaurant, Khayyam in Berkeley, closed. Tah dig consists of the crunchy bottom of...

If you enjoy Tah Dig, the crispy rice dish with various stews served over it, Darya is the best by far. The Iced Cream and Falloudeh are excellent. I guess if meat is the focus, I am not of much help. My favorite meat dish there...

.I can recommend the Hummus, Tah-dig, Gheimeh, and Lamb Shank. We like to get the rice with the rasins, lentils and dates to go with the entrees. Decor is nice too, not a dump at all.

, there is a choice of various starches. One of them I don’t care for – I don’t remember the name but it was slightly scorched rice in a broth, similar to a wet persian tah-dig. Unfortunately, I assoiciate the...

Yes, it was the fesenjoon that elevated Alborz over Maykadeh for me, and I wonder if part of that is that Alborz' version was the formative one? I also love fesenjoon with tah dig, and I don’t think Maykadeh offers those in...

Tah dig - the crispy rice – is a delicacy in and of itself. It’s often served – in the manner in which you described – with a variety of stews. Lubia Polo is Persian lamb stew. Fesenjan specifies a dish...

what to order. For appetizers we had: Kashk Bodemjan – roasted eggplant with fried onion, garlic, mint & yogurt sauce ($6.5). Quite tasty. We piled it on the warm lavash; Tah Dig - crispy rice one of several kinds of stew...

Darya at Santa Monica and Bundy and Javan on SM and Butler. There are also a couple of others on the same stretch of Westwood just north of Shamshiri, one is Flame. The hardened rice dish is either tah-dig (literally bottom of...

It’s rijsttafel. Given how hard it was to find one when I lived in NYC, it never occurred to me to look for one here. I will have to do some digging...