Tabriz Restaurants

  1. Abdi

    The most noteworthy pizza parlour in the area, with black décor and real flames over the doorway.

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  3. Baliq

    Fish, fish, fish. Fresh whole fish, fish kababs, fish köfte balls in the around IR200 salad bar, fishing nets on the ceiling, little aquariums between the tables and even fish-shaped souvenir pens. Standards are excellent, the enticing décor includes log-and-rope chairs and a cave-wall trickling with water. Get off a Rahnamae-Golshahr savari on 35m Sina St.

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  4. Coffee Shops

    Valiasr's speciality is pizza and people-watching from coffee shops around Karimkhan Sq.

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  5. Honarmandan

    Vaulted underground eatery with an amusing if tacky 'sculpted' centrepiece water-feature and a choice of tables or carpeted sitting platforms. Decent kababs and rich dizi .

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  7. Kahveteria Sonati Tarbiat

    Cosy, gently romantic brick-vaulted café for tea-and-dates served on porcelain featuring Qajar royalty. Women can smoke a qalyan here without the incurring the stares of 40 bemused grey-beards.

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  8. Linette

    Warm wood-tones, a pseudo-Swiss wooden chimney-breast and glass-topped inset-tables create a congenial atmosphere despite the slightly cutesy Christmas theme. Try the creamy mushroom stroganoff.

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  9. Modern Tabriz Restaurant

    This good value favourite serves great kababs and excellent fried trout in a large, basement dining hall that somehow finds a successful blend of olde-worlde charm, 1960's retro and idiosyncratic kitsch. Meal prices include 'service', ie salad, soft drink and delicious barley-and-barberry soup.

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  10. Mosbat Cafe

    Marginally the best of Valiasr's trendy coffee shops thanks to its stylish downstairs triangular tables and wooden 'bar' seating. Upstairs is less appealing. Look for the big red-on-yellow 'Café' sign beside Haida Sandwich.

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  11. Orkideh

    Good coffee shop, located a block east of Karimkhan Sq.

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  13. Pars Restaurant

    This relatively upmarket restaurant is located in the Valiasr area.

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  14. Pizza Fanoos

    Typically small but with attractive framed glass-art and a good view-window upstairs.

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  15. Rahnama Dairy

    This simple dairy-café serves unbeatable breakfasts of must-asal (yoghurt-and-honey) or khame-asal (cream-and-honeycomb).

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  16. Restaurant Tatly

    Ceilings soar to five-pointed star lamps in this renovated older building. Pizzas are typically Iranian but the ash (thick vegetable and noodle soup) is hearty and excellent value.

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  17. Revolving Restaurant

    A Plexiglas elevator fires you through the Hotel Elgoli's atrium like Charlie in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory for predictably great views. The basic charge of around IR500 entitles you to raid the soup-n-salad bar. Then add main courses including steaks, sturgeon kababs and fried shrimp.

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  19. Sadaf

    An elegant family kabab restaurant serving decent chelo morq .

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  20. Sharshab

    Good coffee shop, located just south of Karimkhan Sq.

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  21. Talar Bozorg Elgoli

    Within Elgoli's mock Qajar palace, this busy, surprisingly unpretentious family restaurant serves Tabrizi köfte, a local home-cooking speciality like a giant Scotch egg. Order ahead in winter.

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