It’s that time of year again. The time when our shop fills with jolly Iranians and a whole load of apparently random things. We have, for your further pub quiz/crossword/general edification replicated our trusty guide to Nowrooz herebelow. Which should fully explain the random things. We are pretty much open as usual but we will…
Christmas 2018 opening hours
Persepolis in the Snow as captured by the very talented Jake Tilson. It’s not too late to book in your Christmas party at Persepolis: we do have some room left (you can see our sumptuous feasting menu here). The shop is open right up until 24th December, wherein we will be closing at around 3pm.…
The Persepolis Christmas Feast 2018
Mavis was so pleased that she had opted to book the office Christmas party at Persepolis… 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…
The Return of the Persepolis Cook School
So it’s back. The Persepolis Cook School. Wherein Mrs. Shopkeeper pretends she knows a thing or two about food and y’all get to listen in. And maybe eat some of the results. Now we’ve got our lovely basement space sorted, we’ve got room to do all sorts of extra-curricular stuff. Like cookery demos. And so…
Introducing the Kiddie Party Menu….
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…
