Best Persian Food Places Bayview Village

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Haida Sandwich is quite well-known in Bayview Village and even across Toronto for its monstrous size foods, filled with Persian-style chicken and tasty beef. Their sandwiches are jam-packed with lots of fresh meats and veggies. They are available with an assortment of both hot and cold sandwiches. These mega-sized sandwiches are perfect enough for two people. The pizzas are also delicious. They are loaded with cheese and fresh ingredients. All you need to do is choose your favourite food from Haida’s extensive menu and let them amaze you with the tasty dishes, fast service and a special discount.
They use only the freshest meats, whether it’s for a deli sub or for a mouth-watering, hot pizza. The Haida Special is one of the most popular sandwiches on the menu and includes meats, tomatoes, lettuce, pickles and potato stick chips to make every bite yummy. The Haida pizza is also highly recommended, and its ingredients are Beef & Chicken Deli, Mozzarella Cheese, Beef Sausage, Mushroom, Green Pepper, Olive and a Special Sauce. You can drop by this hidden gem to dine in or place an online order to have your food delivered as fast as possible and wherever you want in Bayview Village.

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Located on Sheppard Ave E in Bayview Village, Shater Abbas Express serves authentic Persian cuisine. This family-owned restaurant started its business in 2011. Shater Abbas Express has tasty Persian stews like Ghormeh Sabzi, Gheimeh, Fesenjoon and a variety of kebab options, including Koobideh, Barg, and Torsh Kebab. Go for the Koobideh Kebab, which comes with two skewers of chef’s lamb and beef special ground mix. All the entrees come with basmati rice and BBQ tomato unless you prefer Persian flatbread.
The restaurant is small, clean and the seating is limited inside, with only enough seating for about ten people. They do have an outside patio with a bit more seating. If you are in a rush, you may want to call for take-out in advance, as you could be waiting a while, depending on how busy they are. This place isn’t fancy but, the food makes up for it. The staff speak English very well, and they are so friendly.

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Located on York Mills Road in Bayview Village, Darband Restaurant is in a dingy strip mall in Don Mills and serves what just might be the best rice in Toronto. Darband Restaurant is also a 24-hour bar and restaurant that offers Persian food. In fact, the 10-year-old restaurant is often busiest at 4 a.m., as it serves as a gathering place after concerts and other events in the Persian community. They provide some of the best authentic Persian foods, from the tastiest traditional appetizers to the most mouth-watering main courses.
Don’t forget to try the Aash Reshteh, a thick Persian noodle soup with fresh vegetables and pinto beans, flavoured with kashk (yogurt whey), sautéed garlic, and mint. For the main course, you may order Baghali Polo Mahiche, an oven-baked seventeen and a half ounces of lamb shank cooked in Darband’s special sauce, served with dill and broad bean rice. The portion here is enormous. So it might be a good idea to share a dish if you are not too hungry.

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Zafron Restaurant is a well-known Persian restaurant in Bayview Village that has a passion for new Middle Eastern food tastes. Zaffron provides authentic Persian food inside a California-style decorated restaurant with stucco walls, autumn colours and tile floors. Fresh from the wood oven, Iranian flatbread is sprinkled with sesame seeds; it proves the perfect medium for smoky eggplant purée with lashings of goat yogurt cheese and deep-fried mint. Zaffron kebabs are also tender, juicy and smoky, served with perfectly cooked Basmati rice.
You can order the Bademjan Kebab, consisting of two stuffed eggplants with a mixture of walnuts, fresh herbs, and pomegranate sauce for the appetizer. One order comes with two pieces. For the main course, you can opt for the Stuffed Grape Leaves, House-made rice, and herb stuffed grape leaves, served with yogurt sauce. One order comes with six pieces. Another delicacy you can’t miss out on is the Persian Meat Ball (Kofteh), a mixture of ground beef, rice, fresh herbs, and spices that are formed into the shape of a ball. One order comes with one piece, but it can be enough even for two adults.

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Located on Yonge St in Bayview Village, Taftan Kebab is a Persian take-out and catering restaurant which is mainly famous for its Persian’ “low calorie” healthy foods. Persian cooking is inherently very greasy (and also delicious), so a healthy cuisine is a wonderful thing to have for those being more health-conscious. You will be offered such food as nicely cooked beef or lamb kebabs and salads. The deals for the amount of food at this restaurant are fantastic. For example, you can order three skewers of meat (lamb, chicken and beef), rice and salad for $19.99.
It’s a small restaurant with seating along the wall. The interior design of this place is somehow unreal. It’s like you are transported back to an Old Iranian tea house. They have wooden, raised booths covered with tapestry and carpets. The walls have paintings and cool ornaments. There are various bottles of homemade sauces lying around, so if you want to try them out, you may have to walk around to grab them. The portions are enormous, and the prices are on point. It takes a while to have your food ready most of the time, so it is better to pre-order and pick it up, but if you have time to spare worth waiting there.

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Located on York Mills Rd, Gilaneh Restaurant is one of Toronto’s most popular and authentic Persian restaurants. They offer tasty, familiar dishes featuring global flavours and local ingredients. With more than 14 years of experience and an innovative menu combined with professional service, this is undoubtedly one of the best places in Bayview Village to have a memorable dining experience with your family or friends. Their skilled chef makes the traditional menus’ freshest foods and showcases the best of Ontario’s growers.
The restaurant and lounge are multipurpose spaces with a contemporary look. TACHARA banquet room is an excellent place for private parties accommodating groups of up to 110 people, which can satisfy the most elaborate affair. With its flexible décor and peaceful ambience, this place is able to provide cozy romantic dinners with memorable receptions and upbeat cocktail parties. The restaurant faces a ravine on one side, which gives it an incredibly romantic feel. Come here and feast on the grilled rack of lamb, Atlantic salmon, as well as exquisite traditional dishes, all of which pair nicely with the restaurant’s full bar menu and selection of wines and Martini.

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Located on Spring Garden Ave in Bayview Village, Gol Takeout is the place for those who want to experience the real authentic taste of Persian food. The area has a few bar seats, but people usually go there for take-out, as its name suggests. Having the ever-so-popular Koobideh will not leave you disappointed. The deep beefy flavour combined with pungent Persian spices will satiate your nose and mouth. The entire roasted tomato, along with sumac, adds to the perfectly cooked rice and dryness of the kebab when it’s broken up.
This is definitely the best take-out place whenever you’re on your home way and crave some Persian food, specially Kooideh Kebab. Their daily specials are also a great deal, with Tuesday’s Adas polo (a delicious and hearty Iranian dish made of aromatic basmati rice, lentils, caramelized onion, raisins, and spices. Served with chicken or lamb, or enjoyed as a vegetarian dish) and Wednesday’s Tahchin (an Iranian rice cake primarily consisting of rice, yogurt, saffron, and eggs) being two big favourites. The price is fair, the portions are significant, and the flavours are always fantastic.

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Located on Yonge St in Bayview Village, Yasaman Kebab is owned and run by a lady named Yasaman, a chef with over 50 years of experience. They offer the best selection of Persian Cuisine available every day for dine-in, pickup, delivery, as well as catering for your events, parties and celebrations. They use only fresh, high-quality and tasty ingredients to make you feel the unique taste of Persian food in every bite of the dish.
Yasman Restaurant also serves a variety of homemade meals, traditional broth with fresh and halal meat, homemade pickles and jams, and a variety of Iranian sandwiches. You can go for the Chicken Breast Kabob (1 pc), consisting of one skewer of marinated boneless chicken on basmati rice, barbequed tomatoes, and butter. Or opt for the Zereshk Polo Chicken, a marinated oven-roasted chicken leg on basmati rice with fresh barberries and saffron. If you’re not into chicken dishes, then order the Barg Kabob (1 pc), one skewer of marinated veal fillet on basmati rice, coming with barbequed tomatoes and butter.