dindin kitchen

Iranian Restaurant in Holborn
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8 / 10 from 1 review
Address
52 Gray's Inn Road
Holborn
London
WC1X 8LT
Map
Telephone
020 7242 2249
Cuisine
Iranian
Region
Holborn
Nearest Station
Chancery Lane
0.11 miles
Opening Summary
Weekdays: 07:30 - 21:00
Restaurant Facilities

Children Welcome

Credit Cards Accepted

All day Persian restaurant with eat-in and takeaway options. The menu will be built around a select few dishes, which can be ordered individually, allowing flexibility for customers to bundle items according to taste and appetite. The menu will focus on grills, soups, savoury soufflés, rice dishes, fresh salads and healthy sides. Grills will be served as finished-to-order flatbread wraps with salad and a range of sauce options. Breakfast will feature a selection of baked eggs, as well as flavourful breakfast wraps and a full ‘hot drinks to go’ list. A small selection of fresh pastries, ice-cream and sorbets will be available including a unique Persian Granita topped with morello cherries, citrus juice and rose water.

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All In London Review

Traditional Iranian food for the lunchtime market

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Thanks to the street food explosion we’re all familiar with Vietnamese bahn mi and Japanese tonkatsu, but up until now salad olivieh and kuku have remained relatively unknown. Could this be about to change now that London’s first fast food Iranian has opened?

Although they’ve chosen to eschew Iranian names, traditional dishes appear on the menu, which is divided into soups, hot and cold boxes, grills and wraps. The aforementioned salad olivieh is the Persian chicken salad, a fantastically rich combination of potato, chicken, chopped egg and gherkins, presented in a salad box. Kuku is the Iranian version of an omelette, here labelled a soufflé as it is baked in the oven allowing the eggs to rise; we try the herb soufflé, which is thick and fluffy as kuku should be. There are cold mezze too; yoghurt with spinach and dill, yoghurt and beetroot, and smoky aubergine and garlic, all typically served as starters.

Best of all are the hot dishes, in particular the skewered kabobs Iran is so famous for. There’s lemony saffron chicken and exceptionally tender lamb, these are available with rice (with dill and broad beans, or with saffron and barberries) or in wraps with gherkin salad and mayonnaise. There’s also a gloriously hearty sweet and sour soup with pomegranate seeds and lamb meatballs that fall apart to create a chunky, meaty stew.

As Dindin opens from 7.30 there are breakfast items like Bircher muesli and granola alongside Middle Eastern-influenced dishes like halloumi with avocado flatbread and labneh yoghurt with rocket and thyme. They’ve also teamed up with Rinkoff Bakery to offer crodoughs, the croissant-doughnut hybrid that had New Yorkers in a tizz last year.

With grilled meats costing under £7 and everything else less than a fiver, Dindin could really take off, adding an exquisite option to the lunchtime market.

Reviewed by Leila
Published on May 6, 2014


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