BHA! BHA! Persian Bistro — Restaurant in Naples

We have been meaning to go here for awhile, the reviews online and from folks we know were all great. Sadly our experience was not. The cocktail menu had nothing that interested us, but that’s ok, we were here for the food. We got an appetizer that was very good, the lamb and eggplant napoleon. The dish was good but the pita it came with was not fresh at all, and that was pretty disappointing. When we ordered entrees, we decided on the bhabha lamb shank and the seafood paella. We both love paella and lamb, this is going to be great we thought! Well, the lamb was great for sure, full of flavor and tender. We both enjoyed it and thats what we ended up sharing for our meal. The seafood paella was however one of the worst dishes we have ever been served! Rarely is there a dish so bad that we have it removed from the table, but this was 100% not going to be eaten by us. The seafood paella was really just a bland rice dish, with overcooked seafood. The mussels were dry and not edible, the shrimp overcooked, the chicken was dry, the sausage was also just overcooked tiny slices, and the fish was an abomination! It was a hunk of snapper i think, without the bloodline removed, and just terrible. I am a fisherman, badly prepared seafood offends me, respect our hard work and the beautiful and delicious bounty of our seas, we live in a waterfront community, you can and should do better here especially for the prices! And to top it off, why is paella served in a bowl, not a paella pan? No crispy rice? No flavor? I could have made a better dish with rice-a-roni and some canned fish. Sorry, but save your time and money for a better restaurant.

Service was fine and desserts looked good, but we were so ready to leave we...

Had a dinner reservation with my girlfriend. The food was phenomenal. Overall, it is an elegant restaurant with attentive employees that care to make this a pleasant experience. However, our server was a rude, disrespectful, and just out for padding his tip. I did not fully realize this until after we left, because somethings happened to just my girlfriend when I stepped away to use the restroom. I left a respectable tip, but now I feel bitter about that having realized just how we were treated by our server.

Our experience with the server: We had eaten a very late lunch at 4:30 PM on Sunday, so we were not very hungry by our dinner time of 7:45.

Our server gave us attitude when we were not interested in ordering any drinks. When he came back and saw my girlfriend was looking at appetizers in the menu, he walked over, turned the page to the drinks for her and told her that this is where the drinks are and asked what drink she wanted to order. She never expressed any interest in ordering a drink (we rarely drink alcohol).

When he came back to take our order and discovered we just wanted one appetizer and one entree to share, he asked asked "That's it?!" and walked off with attitude.

He did not check if we were enjoying our food. A younger man brought our food out and he was very friendly and kind, but our server openly showed his displeasure for us for not ordering more. There were a few other instances of this behavior. I just brushed it off and left a respectable tip anyways, but I would have left a much lower tip now that I reflect on how we...

This place is over rated. I took my wife there last night to celebrate our wedding anniversary only to find out that the food was just average. Food: The presentation of the food is mediocre. The food looks and tastes like employee canteen food. We had hummus to share as appetizer which was good, freshly made...however the entrees... I had the apricot shrimp with tamarind sauce...nothing espectacular about this dish (at least not to be featured at the Bon Apetit magazine to my view) Taste was just ok. I still taste the chunks of uncooked garlic I swallowed my mistake in a poorly executed shrimp stew...again, the presentation was so dissapointing.

My wife had a marinated beef tenderloin...it was just a grilled beef tenderloin with rice...that's it! Nothing more, nothing less...if you are going to describe "marinated" in a menu you expect some sort of especial flavor (herbs, spices, wine, etc) this was a plain piece of grilled beef...

Service: I had called to change my reservation from Friday to Saturday...the host didnt find my reservation and told me she will seat me anyway...thank you for the favor!

Ambience: The place is not comfortable. Tables are so close to each other that you feel you are sharing tables with the other 40 people eating.

Maybe I picked the wrong place for a wedding anniversary or maybe this place is just over rated...just because is at 5th Ave. Naples it does not mean is an elegant great food restaurant....just average....I had very high expectations when reading a 4.7 review, however we were greatly...