Pickle purple Sour cherry swirl Beet fleck Luminescent borage Berbere Lavender Raspberry el hanout Creamed salmon Tomato slosh It’s a chilli thing. Capsicum Red Cheetorange Market reds Salvador Dal Saffron slurry Whipped labneh Smashed Avocado Balsamic beige Salad and stuff Herbal Haze Spinach gloop We work with some really pretty colours in our kitchens. And…
Team Persepolis Rides Again!
So we’re doing another one of our crazy challenges. On Sunday January 19th 2020 we’re doing the The London Winter Walk – a marathon around London’s most famous bits. This isn’t the first time we’ve done the distance: in 2011 we did Maggie’s Night Hike, and then in 2013 Mrs. S and a friend did…
Persepolis Feasting Menu Christmas 2019
The concept of feasting was pretty much invented in the Middle East by the courts of Shah Abbas and those opulent Ottoman dudes. If you combine this fact with the idea of meze – the relaxed sharing of multiple dishes, and also our speciality – celebrating your vegetarian Christmas with us is a bit of…
Book Event: the Phoenix of Persia
We are delighted to welcome Sally Pomme Clayton back to Persepolis for a very Persian story-telling/book launch. Her latest book – the Phoenix of Persia – is about our favourite avian dude, the Simorgh. The book is conspicuously for children but to be honest it is far too good to keep for the little guys.…
Persepoloos
Mrs. Shopkeeper gets terrible loo envy. Whenever she is allowed out to other establishments (which is not very often, let’s face it), she can but stand and whimper as she espies their state of the art (albeit somewhat disdainful) squirty fragrance machines, smugly purring hand driers, sound-gobbling carpet, and the kind of tap activation technology…
