Well it seems like I should review it… now that it’s burned down. Dejlah Bistro was located on Oeschli road at a locale that could never stay afloat. It hosted a mediteranean restaurant with horrible seafood for about the past year and before that an Indian restaurant that was not too bad. Restaurants in that locale simply cannot bring in the customers – none waft over from Havana rumba, at least.
So finally something moved in worthwhile, at least to Robin Garr’s palate. He reviewed the café, that was Persian in cuisine, in the leo and gave it a rating as good as Saffron’s (he stated that it was the Iraqi counterpart to the local Iranian restaurant). The ironic thing about the place is that the restaurant’s chef apparently fixed food for Sadaam Hussein during his regime… and some none-too-shabby potatoes, too!
I dined there one time with a coupon with my family and we had an excellent meal. We ate potatoes in two forms: chunked new potatoes that were out of this world and French fries that were extremely well seasoned and cooked as well. Our meat there was excellent - I believe we ordered some lamb and chicken, both of which were good, but the chicken was outstanding.
We were wanting to go back, had another coupon, but then someone burned the place down and grafitied something inside that was racist… some comment.
Anyway, here I am blogging about it. I guess I’m not too disappointed, seeing as other restaurants around town fill the same niche well, but man were those some good taters!
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