If you’ve ever had a hankerin’ for some ghourmeh sabzi, maust’ khiar, kashk-e-bademjan, and fesenjon, and let’s face it who hasn’t, then you owe it to yourself to get over east Flamingo way, and drop in on the Persian purveyors of primo polo (basmati rice) at Royal Persis.
Category: Food
THE MAD GREEK – Mediocrity In Our Midst
Pita bread that looks (and tastes) like a slightly stale pancake (no pocket or fluffiness allowed). A salad unfettered by a surfeit of feckless feta, garlanded with grotesque, grainy tomatoes, atop loads of stale lettuce and disgusting gyro meat with a cheap vinaigrette plastered atop it — yeah, we at ELV were right at home at lunch today.
Ban Tomatoes In January!
When our staff asked uber-restaurateur Mario Maccioni the other day why he was putting pinkish tomatoes on his pizzas at the otherwise fabulous Sirio, his answer was: “Because people want them.”