Pars Grill House
“Had the Kashke Bademjan for an appetizer since I love eggplant, then the Barg (beef steak) with albaloo polo.”
“Their ghormeh sabzi was surprisingly excellent, which means you can't go wrong with anything on the menu!”
“Then an exotic girl came out belly dancing in full dancer garb, balancing a tray of lit candles on her head.”
Pars Grill House
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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My experience here was excellent. I had the chicken kabob and dolman… Everything was so tasty.
We enjoyed a delicious meal at Pars. The food is very good. We started with the Borani, which was very tasty. For dinner, I got the Bakhtiari, a combination of Barg (steak), which was a little dry and disappointing, and chicken, which was tender and delicious. My wife's salmon was very good, and both dishes were served with a delicious rice.
Service was spotty–at some points very attentive but at other times it seemed the four employees working the tiny restaurant were going out of their way to ignore us.
The place is small and intimate, but the Middle Eastern disco music diminished the ambience just a bit for me.
I'd definitely come back, but I'd avoid the steak and stick with the poultry or fish, instead.
This is a Persian restaurant. The food is eclectic. I really enjoyed the bread and eggplant spreads. The lychee martini was not that great. A little dry.
Good Persian restaurant that honors it's Yelp check in offer by giving you a free glass of wine.The bread is very good.I had a mixed kebab of Cornish Game Hen and ground beef and lamb.Companion had Fesenjon.(Persian chicken stew).Had the Rollet Delizia for dessert and saffron tea.I went for lunch on a Saturday .Service was pleasant and fairly quick.The food was good and the atmosphere was relaxed.The prices aren't low but they are reasonable.I'd go back.
Very disappointed by their middle of the road menu, food, and presentation. The location was fairly convenient between Madison Square Garden and Chelsea in an area otherwise overrun with pubs, salad specialists , and quick bites. The menu lacked creativity and had no depth. The offering is heavily weighed toward kabobs made with beef, chicken, lamb, and ground beef/lamb. My entree was a Cornish Game Hen kabob, and a lamb kabob served with bastmati rice and a few grilled vegetables. The portion was fair, but the food was bland and overcooked. Service was good, although uninformed. Overall a 2 1/2 – 3 star.
Places like Pars Grill, passed up by the sheeple in favor of trendier eateries, put a smile on my face. I'd walked by a few times on the way to UCB and wondered why it's always empty. Well, on a recent Saturday night, I had a chance to find out.
At 7:30 pm it was perfectly semi-occupied, no reservations required. We got a nice table, the seats covered with Persian (let's pretend, if they're not) rugs and the atmosphere deliciously muted. At any minute, a belly dancer could jump out, or a group of men could be sharing a shisha nearby (none of this occurred, but the possibility is in the air).
The food was excellent. We kept it simple with a yogurt mint dill appetizer, with dunkable bread, and a small shepherd salad (healthy/sane portions, unlike the ones you get more exuberant Russian-accented restaurants). My Kobideh (aka lyulya kebab) was excellent: two skewers, one lamb and one beef, very juicy and perfectly seasoned. It comes with that light Persian saffron rice (yum). We didn't have room for dessert and I regret that, but the wine was good and they even had a Yelp check-in offer for a free glass with ever entree.
Hidden gem!
I wasn't super impressed by Pars. I went for Valentine's night dinner and the restaurant was half-empty.
Service wasn't great. Food was fine but nothing stood out. I would not recommend the baklava. Normally baklava is one of my favorite desserts but this one was off – it had an overpowering spiciness and wasn't moist.
When we asked for hot sauce, we were told "Sorry, but saffron is expensive so you wouldn't want to cover up the food's flavor with hot sauce." Then someone brought over their hot sauce options – Cholula and Tabasco. C'mon guys. You can do better. How about a homemade hot sauce or some other alternative that you can offer? I didn't find that response to be appropriate.
As we were leaving there was a belly dancer coming out to start a routine. We had easily been there for 2 hours without entertainment, unacceptable for Valentine's night but I suppose that's why they weren't full.
My mother LOVED this place because she once worked in the area and used to order from here all the time, so she brought me here on a Sunday for dinner. We walked in and we were seated and all was well except I noticed that there was a couple of flies lingering in the dining area. It wasn't a big deal because their windows were open.
I ordered the Barg (fillet mignon), because I noticed that it was a fan favorite based on a sign I saw displayed at the front door, and I found it to be sub par. There was literally no flavor to the steak, and that was disappointing.
What really prompted me to write this review was not because the food wasn't outstanding. It was because of what I found in my mother's drink. There was a bug in her drink that was still 3/4s full, holding on for dear life swimming around. I understand that it can, and will happen during this time of year, but it was the way the waitress handled (or didn't handle) the situation. Here it goes:
Me: Excuse me, there's a bug in this beer.
Waitress: uhmmm… uhhh… (there's an uncomfortable pause and she looks confused) We– We serve the beers straight from the bottle.
Me: (at this point I look a bit annoyed for obvious reasons) Okay, but there's a bug in this beer. If you'd like, you can see for yourself.
Waitress: (still looking clueless and is clearly at a loss for words) Is there anything you want me to do? What do you want me to do?
Me: What can you do for me?
So, here's the thing; What I expected was for the waitress to apologize, and she hadn't. I also expected her to either ask me if my mother wanted a drink to replace this one free of charge, or to remove it from our check altogether. She did neither. My mother even overheard her talking about the situation with another coworker, and STILL, there was nothing done about the bug. I felt like the whole exchange between her and I should've been recorded and presented at a job orientation for the SAME position because she clearly had no idea how important customer service is or what it even is.