Persian Basement

Not cheap, but delicious.
There are two options for lunch at Persian Basement — a la carte and a food bar.
You got a serving of rice and a hot dish. The choices were lamb or chicken kebabs, lamb shank or lemon chicken, or vegetable, lamb or chicken stew. There was plain steamed white rice, and four options flavoured with herbs, legumes and dried fruit.
I had a lamb skewer with the herb rice — every bite was a bit of heaven. My friend had the chicken pieces and only let me sample one bite.
What bumps up the price is the yoghurt and pickle options. The condiment set up is pretty much a takeaway only– the small serving is several dollars and pretty big. It would would would be good to get a mini serving of yoghurt and pickle for $ 2 – 3 extra. Because what is a tasty roast meat without the cooling cucumbery yogurt or the sweet, umami blast of pickle?
I have been to the weekend buffet in the past, and will definitely be back to sample it.

I came on Sunday afternoon $ 25pp buffet…
It was a little bit hard to find parking over there, packed at the back of Coles.
They are 2bar for food, one side is hot food and other is salad.
the chicken shish and lamb shish are yummy. They have the lemon chicken, and One food is very deep green and sour taste, which I wasn’t too used to the taste but they were okay. The beans one mix with the tomato sauce is good.
I like the saffron rice, taste a little diff to normal home rice cooker rice and better. Love to mix the butter with the rice, which make it even more tasty :)
One disappointing thing is their tea cups. I picked up 5… The 5^th one was cleans, other was with little dirt sticking inside.
I had the ice cream as dessert, but not sure how much extra. It is nice. With ice cream in between 2 waffles. The ice cream is mix with saffron, vanilla, nut, extra. Not sure what they mix in. What I know is, YUMMY !!!
Hmm, if you are Asian, you would find food is little bit oily and heavy for you. And they marinated food with lots species. If you are type of people like fresh food like sashimi or simple taste of food. I don’t think you would be too impressed with persian food.
But anyway, I like food here. :)

Friday and Saturday nights at Anahita are banquet nights. $ 50 per person and a whole lot of food and entertainment.
FOOD
Entrée
Baked bread with 3 dips: yoghurt mixed with sour cream, Humus, roasted eggplant
Chicken wing & leg pieces marinated in lemon juice, saffron, olive oil char grill
Garden Salad

Main
Barg — Finely sliced Lamb tender loin marinated in lemon juice & Saffron
Morgh-​e-​koobideh — Ground chicken marinated in onion, fresh chilli, lemon juice, saffron
Bareh Koobideh — Ground meat of lamb marinated in grated onion cooked perfectly served
Mains served with basmati saffron rice, grilled chilli & tomato
Dessert
Paludeh bastani– Frozen rice noodle drained in a rosewater sorbet, garnished with saffron ice cream
You get a lot of food for the banquet but overall I wasn’t very impressed with the taste. Smart move by the restaurant to only offer the banquet on Friday and Saturday nights as this means they can just mass produce all the food and save the hassle of getting any orders wrong or any large delays in serving meals.
ENTERTAINMENT
The highlight of the night was when the belly dancer came out for a good 20min show. Here I thought she was just going to shake her belly like a good belly dancer does but no. She had props as well! Fans, swords and walking sticks! She even pulled some people out of the crowd to dance alongside her which really got the energy in the room up.
After her it was back to the DJ to transform the restaurant into a Persian night club. Dance floor was packed with people dancing to modern Persian beats.
OVERALL
The restaurant only opens at 7 for dinner on Fridays and Saturdays. Advisable to book as the place was packed the Saturday we went.