We are pretty kiddie friendly at Persepolis. This is because we are for the most part big kids ourselves. And we have quite a lot of little things in the extended family – like the houmous kid in the photo (cute, isn’t he?). We already have a section for smalls on the menu featuring kiddie…
Private Dining at Persepolis
Welcome to our little snug (or ‘patogh’ in Farsi)… We have been threatening to put customers in the basement for quite a while now, but until recently we have only actually carried this through for the most naughty children. Now we can extend the invitation to one and all as we have transformed part of…
Christmas 2017 – Oh oh oy….

So it’s nearly upon us. The annual brussels sprouts bonanza. The works dos and shopping centre ramraids are all done and dusted for another year, and hopefully you are now at home with a wee mulled something whilst you wrap your prezzies. We are actually open until about 2.30 on Christmas Eve, and we will…
Persepolis: the book of the cafe of the t-shirt of the shop. Or something.
Ta dah! Our new book baby is now out. Just in time for Christmas, by some strange coincidence… Persepolis is basically Veggiestan II – i.e. a crazy English woman’s tour of Middle Eastern vegetable stuff – but the recipes are all new and you do not need to have read Veggiestan to understand the thrills…
Persepolitan Christmas Feasting Menu 2016
Bad Santa…. Couldn’t resist reposting this splendid image of Mr. Shopkeeper. 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…