If you and your family celebrate Nowruz, hopefully, you have someone super talented cooking for you at home this weekend and don’t require a list like this. For the rest of us, who are seeking great flavors to accompany whatever Persian new year celebrations they’ve got cooking, we present to you seven, of the many, many, places where you can indulge in some of L.A.’s most appealing Iranian eats.
Attari Sandwich Shop
Let’s take it back to ’78, when this small daytime deli space steps with a resplendently sunny courtyard was opened, surviving today as one of Westwood’s oldest Persian businesses—many say the oldest. Despite the abundant kebabs, dips, salads, and desserts on offer, the large sandwiches on French bread are the big magnet come lunchtime, with intriguing fillings such as the spicy sausage known as sosees bandari, paper-thin mortadella, olivieh-style egg salad, and the most popular for a reason, the saffron-kissed hot beef tongue. Sadly, it’s been a few months since the deli served its infamous and delicious makhloot, due to current inaccessibility of its star ingredients, lamb brains, and lamb tongue.
1388 Westwood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024. Closest Metro lines and stop: Bus Lines 20, 233, 720 or 761 - “Wilshire/Westwood.”