Right beside the super-popular Cafe-Restaurant Soufi but barely marked, the vaguely 'secret' upstairs room in Darbar Zartosht is Nahar Khoran's 'in' place for the wealthier local youth to come for hubble-bubble (qalyan set IR200,000) on winter evenings. Low-lit, with upbeat yet not overpowering tunes, and live music from 8.30pm.
Darbar Zartosht
Iran
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