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…
Category: Extra-Curricular
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…
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…
