Alborz Persian Cuisine
Austin, TX 78757-1023
Phone: (512) 420-2222
- Price:
- $
- Hours:
- Sun-Thu 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 11:30am-10pm
Editorial Review for Alborz Persian Cuisine – by Tara Fatemi
In Short
A warm and welcoming reception area uses a Persian motif with gorgeous calligraphy and paintings that spread throughout the large restaurant. Customers are a mix of Persian food fans and adventurous food connoisseurs. The kashk-o-bademjan is a rich, smoky, baked-eggplant starter topped with dry yogurt, mint, walnuts and garlic. Tender, grilled skewers of chelo kabob-e-koobideh (ground beef kabob) are served with flame-broiled tomatoes and seasoned with herbs and onions.
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Insider Tips
Save MoneyThe affordable lunch buffet is an excellent introduction to Persian cuisine and features various rice and vegetarian dishes, in addition to Alborz's kabob.
User Reviews for Alborz Persian Cuisine
04/22/2008 Posted by dsiluznd415
My boyfriend and I frequent this place and in general, we always thought the food was great and the service was pretty good too. In fact, we've never really had a bad experience until now. We went over the weekend (as usual) but this time the service was TERRIBLE. If it weren't for the buffet, we'd have starved to death waiting to order. We were seated immediately but we weren't given any guidance other than 'drinks are included'. If we'd been first timers, we definitely would not have gone back. We were literally half way through our meal before the waitress even acknowledged us to bring our drinks. Have you ever tried to choke down rice without water? Not sure how she could have missed us, especially since our table was blocking her direct route to and from the kitchen, that combined with 2 desperate faces in dire need of a drink. In fact, if the guy distributing tea refills hadn't come by, to make up for her incompetence, we would have walked out. As if that wasn't bad enough, they raised the prices. It doesn't add up (not for my patience or my checkbook). Don't know about you but I'd much rather PAY for my drink (like before) and actually GET ONE. Not sure what's going on over there but you guys should seriously look at bringing back your old wait staff before somebody chokes to death already.
Pros: tasty food
Cons: service
02/12/2008 Posted by foodpicky
Hello, Let me please tell you that real persian cuisine requires long hours of preparation. It seems to me that Alborz chose the easiest and quickest adapted way to prepare their dishes. The dishes they serve are very different from those we eat at home in Persia. Basically, all dishes are the variation of the same dish-with differetn names and slightly different ingredients. I was embarassed to invite my American friends there and would rather cook for them in my house to impress them. After all, Persian cuisine is one of the best in world, which cannot be felt after visitng the Alborz. Sigh.....
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