Zaffron
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416-223-7070
w: http://www.zaffron.ca/
Driving north on Yonge Street means passing through Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Persian culinary pockets. Between Finch and Steeles, it’s Persian territory, with specialty shops, cafés and restaurants. Two chefs—one Italian, one Iranian—run Zaffron, so the menu is split between pizza, pastas, seafood on the one hand, and rice, grilled meat and yogurt on the other. The Iranian offerings are more adventurous, albeit adventurous in a meat-and-rice kind of way. Tadig sabzi brings golden, crispy, chewy wedges of baked rice cake topped with a lemony stew of lamb and puréed spinach. Two baby eggplants (badem jan kebob) are soft and a tad too sweet, stuffed with walnuts and pomegranate sauce. Baghali polo is a fall-from-the-bone-tender lamb shank stew accompanied by fava beans and rice. From the 1980s-style Mediterranean dining room—sponge-painted walls, plastic ivy, raffia-wrapped vases filled with pasta—diners can take in the action around the wood-burning pizza oven. For drinks, there’s a homemade yogurt, soda and mint concoction that tastes like thin, fizzy raita. It’s definitely more interesting than the boring, overpriced wine list. Mains $13–$31.
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Vegetarian: Yes
Outdoor Dining: Yes
Price Range: Dinner for $60 - $90
Editor's Star Rating: 1.5
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