Restaurant Teheran — Restaurant in Hamburg

Not a cosy place. Does not offer good service. Very noisy and crowded place. Very old building in the middle of a main boulevard. Located well near the central train station. Food was too salty (Soltani Kebabs). Took relatively long time to serve the food. The Shirazi salad was awful and tasted very bitter. CocaCola served with the bottle beside a glass, old fashion and unclassy. As a single guest at the entrance I had the feeling that I was not welcomed, as it took long time that one of the five personel saw me finally and asked how many people I/we am/are, and then went into discussion with the other three until they decided to call me to step ahead. I was placed the worst place a guest in a restaurant can get, exactlly beside the hatch where the waitresses receive the dishes from the kitchen! Many times the personel hit me by their arms and elbows when getting the dishes through the hatch and carrying them toward the guests from behind my neck, without even to apologize for hitting me! The voice of the kitchen personel and their discussions with the waitresses was right behind my ears, witnessing a total caos in servicing. When I asked the middle-aged lady behind the bar to change my place to the other two-man table in vicinity, she reasoned that it could soon get occupied, if the guests who had resereved the 6-man table, come with one extra guest and therefore they could end up to connect that table to the other one! Nice! Those guests never appeared and I was kept on my terrible place until the end of my visit for almost three quarters. At the end of my visit, when I tried to pay respect and thank the lady for the "service", it seemed that she has not raised up with the culture of paying attention and praise the guest's visit, so she didn't find any time to thank at all. My first time and last time in that only-money-interessted...

We've been visiting Teheran for almost 30 years now, beginng in its old location in Ernst-Merck-Strasse.

The building is not nicely located and it is not nice. It's a listed building, thus making alterations both exterior and interior virtually impossible. However, a bit more love would elevate well-being enormously. As it is, the ambiance is reminiscent of a train station waiting room.

Getting there by foot from the Central Station, a ten minute-walk, leads past scenes and shops one doesn't really wish to see.

Once inside, the welcome is warm and the service mostly excellent.

There's always a complimentary plate of typical Persian starters; herbs, white cheese, walnuts, all in mini portions and, of course, onions, these enough to satiate a horse. Flatbread, of the vaguely Middle Eastern variety, comes with it.

The dishes to eat here are the grilled meats (chicken, lamb fillet and minced lamb), prepared on skewers over open flames, accompanied by a salad or rice or both. Don't bother with the salads, they're neither fresh nor good. The one salad sauce offered is an atrocity out of a bottle.

Don't bother with the rest of the dishes, either. They're mostly khoresht, which denotes a stew served with rice. These are best left to Iranian housewives. None of them would lend their name to what is served here.

There are some delicious starters, such as the Shirazi and thick yoghurt with shallots and also Kuki Sabzi, which can loosely be described as an herb omelette.

Prices are moderate in comparison to other Persian restaurants, payments by card are accepted.

Oh, and bad news for vegetarians: there's very little on the menu, except for large portions of some of the starters.

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It is really close to Hamburg Banhof. The time for cooking meal for us was short, we ordered 2 kebab koobide with rice and it was delicious and alot that we couldn't finish it. Alot of ppl order by phone and then come to pick up, some group tables were reserved so if you are more than 4 persons maybe it is a good idea to reserve first. Every thing was great except one thing! I ordered one cola but they gave just in glass which means you can't take it with urself out even if you haven't drunk it completely, also it is so expensive 2.90 for one glass of cola! And they do this to prevent ppl from ordering 1 cola to share it with each other . People pay more but for such a thing you offer just in glass is not a good idea and we didn't like it because both of us wanted to drink cola but offered in one glass and finally one person couldn't even finish the whole glass so what is the point?! Also the music playing at background is so baddd, at least play...