Cholo Khoresht
چلو خورشت
Stewed meat with okra, eggplant or potato — chicken or beef — served with saffron rice.
Stew · choice of meat
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A short and sweet à la carte of grilled meats over saffron rice and warm Iranian flatbread. Lunch is rice-and-stew; dinner is the kebabs. Both are served at both, in practice.
This is the actual laminated A4 sheet that has been on every table since the 1980s. It lists the mix-for-N-people set meals on one side and the à la carte on the other.
What's on this page is a faithful transcription of what's on that sheet. We don't update prices online any faster than we update the lamination — confirm in person before printing anything.
P.S. the mint tea at the end of the meal isn't on the menu either. It still arrives.
Lunch is the rice plate — cholo (saffron rice) with a stewed or grilled main. Served 12:00 – 16:00, Saturday to Thursday. Friday is dinner only.
Stewed meat with okra, eggplant or potato — chicken or beef — served with saffron rice.
A piece of boiled mutton, slow and tender, with saffron rice.
Half fried chicken, generously seasoned, with saffron rice.
Fried fish — crisp on the outside, soft inside — with saffron rice.
The core menu, served evenings 18:30 – 01:00. All also available at lunch in practice. If you don't know where to start: D1 Kabab Khas, D4 Joojeh, D5 Sultani.
Yogurt-marinated mutton and chicken on the same skewer, charcoal-grilled. The dish the restaurant is named after.
The classic. Minced meat on a flat skewer, charcoal-grilled, served with bread.
Koubideh kebab over saffron rice — the rice version of D2.
Saffron-marinated chicken cubes, boneless or boned. The most photographed item on the wall.
Mutton tenderloin (barg) alongside minced koubideh, with saffron rice. The premium plate.
Koubideh and barg kebab with Iranian flatbread instead of rice.
Tenderloin meat, charcoal-grilled, over saffron rice. Lean and clean.
Tenderloin with bread — the same barg as D7, no rice.
Chicken or mutton marinated in dried Omani lime — sour, savoury, unmistakable. Press-favourite.
Fat-free chicken breast, charcoal-grilled. The leanest thing on the menu.
Codes D11–D15 are combinations: joojeh + koubideh, koubideh + barg, etc. Or order the family platter and skip the choosing.
Joojeh + koubideh. Koubideh + barg. Bahraini + joojeh. Pick any two — the kitchen will assemble the plate.
An assortment of kebabs, saffron rice, naan and garlic sauce. The sensible answer when there are four of you.
The fixed set meals exist so you can try four kebabs without ordering four mains. Mix for two AED 105 · four AED 210 · six AED 308 — served with bread, salad, fries and yogurt.
The garlic sauce is, per Google reviews, "an absolute must-get". Most reviewers agree. Don't skip the doogh either.
Small or large
White rice with saffron, or mixed
Chickpeas, tahini, olive oil
Cucumber, tomato, onion, lemon, olive oil
Yogurt with mint & cucumber
The creamy one. Order two.
Buttered, with pomegranate or barberries
Fresh-baked Iranian flatbread
Layered pastry, nuts and syrup
The mains are all grilled meat. There are no vegetarian mains. What there is: hummus, rice, salad, yogurt, naan, baklava, mint tea, doogh — all of it good, and enough for a vegetarian meal if you order three of them and the complimentary herbs.
A faster, cheaper way to taste the marinade. Best eaten standing up outside.
Grilled saffron chicken in warm naan, with garlic sauce.
Grilled lamb kebab in warm naan, with garlic sauce.
No alcohol, fully halal. The Persian yogurt-mint soda — doogh — is on the menu and you should try it once.
Served after the meal, complimentary in fact
Orange, lemon, mixed
Yogurt-mint soda · the Persian classic
Cola, Sprite, Fanta