A dish that tells its story — Mirza Ghasemi reviewed

You can taste history in Mirza Ghasemi if you know what to look for. Iranian cuisine has a 3000-year recorded history with influences on Arab, Turkish, and Central Asian cooking. The rich and saffron-gilded character reflects those layers — dried limes doesn't appear by accident; it came from a specific tradition.

The a traditional Iranian home dinner setting made sense of it. You understand the food differently when the context is right. rose water sharbat alongside is part of that story. Some food is just fuel. Mirza Ghasemi, properly made, is something more. This version told the story well.