Darvish Persian Tea House

by John F.

We went here for lunch.  They run a buffet only during lunch hours.  It was about $8 if I remember correctly.  There were 2 meat items, lots of vegetables, salad, and soup to choose from.  The beef and chicken kabob were really good.  We also ordered the baklava and a bowl of yogurt for dessert.  All was great quality.  The decor is very nice and the wait staff were very courteous.  Definitely a good lunch place to if you're rushed for time and want something that is good.

by Deanna J.

Don't judge a book by it's cover. Cliche, I know, I know. But very well applied to the Persian Tea House. It's located in a strip mall. In Roswell. It has a cheesy lighted sign. But it's awesome. Walk into the space and feel transported to some kind of secret coolness. Even at lunch, the interior is dark (good think you don't need to read a menu because they've got a lunchtime buffet). You're greeted by booths, tables and lounging beds (yes, beds) covered all in Persian rugs and tapestries. Everything from your seat to your table has a layer of freshly fallen rug. Sounds strange but a cool effect. There're also various Christmas hanging from the ceiling, and a wood burning oven in the corner. The lunchtime buffet is only $7.99 ($9.99 on Sundays) - and is tastyyy. Slim pickins for vegitarians, unless you'd be happy with stewed tomatoes, rice and zuchini. But for meat eatin folk, kabob meat galore. Friday Saturday nights have belly dancers, and they have a pretty extensive dinner menu. It's all about the kabob - but veggies will have a couple other options like an eggplant or stew dish. Kabobs range from a ground beef kabob ($13) to the most expensive dish of the rack of lamb kabob ($29). You can also get a hookah at any time of the day too.  This would be the bomb-dig spot for a birthday dinner - one part bed/loungy area for your posse, Persian kabobs, hookahs and belly dancers. Good times.

by Pam C.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND this is a place I will never EVER go to again. I called ahead. Reservations for 4 on a Friday at 9:30. We reserved a bed.I arrived. Waited about 5 minutes for someone to help us. Not too bad. Girl didn't seem to have our reservation. We got a bed anyway. Big bed... then they moved us, muttering something about bellydancers. No big deal... we were excited. Beds were cool, carpeted with pillows. They brought us fresh bread, yogurt sauce, french salad, basil, onions. We ordered hot tea and a hookah, said we might consider food later. I actually say, "I know I haven't been here long, but already I love this place!" Famous last words.Reality sets in.Waitress brings tea. We are excited. An HOUR later (literally), we are pissed. No hookah in sight. No waitress in sight. We spot a waiter, tell him we ordered a hookah an hour ago. Still nothing. We see some hookahs appear. We see the manager smoke them all (apparently "warming them up"... totally unecessary).HALF AN HOUR LATER we are literally about to just get up and LEAVE, when we see another hookah appear and FINALLY see our waitress. It is ours... we figure before we leave we will just talk to the manager about a discount for the horrible wait. We ordered one more coal, because it was only going to cost a few extra dollars we thought, because other places we went to only charged a little for more coals.End of night. $50 bill. Only $5 was not the hookah. Oh, and they included 18% gratuity. We talk to the waitress. She was useless. We talk to the manager. He was a DICK. Said he was losing money because we should have spent at least $200 at that table. He argued with us. The fact that the service was crap, they charged us $15 for an extra coal, made us wait and hour and a half for our hookah, the fact that he smoked our hookah, and the bellydancers never showed up didn't seem to matter to him.We finally paid them off, but now looking back, I kind of just wish I left without paying anything. The only positive that night? There was another huge party going on, and they were nice enough to share a slice of cake with us.

by Shonda K.

I live In The City so going here was like traveling to Tennessee because it is deeeep OTP.  It is in a strip mall and I didn't really know what to expect.  When we walked in it was like the set of an Indiana Jones movie.  The lighting is very dim and there are rugs covering the beds and cool pictures on the wall.  I have never been to this type of restaurant or ever really eaten food from this region so the whole experience was interesting.  They were playing traditional music that sounded like it was remixed with house beats.Food- It was okay.  I had the buffet and had curry chicken (tasted very dry, maybe it was on the line too long), some sort of beef and rice and goat.  The goat looked and tasted like ox tails. The goat was tasty and probably the highlight of the meal.  Now the kicker is they were charging $12 a plate for this stuff.  Are you kidding me???  And since we were here for a 1yr old's birthday party and were with a group, they were adding 18% gratuity making a grand total of $16 per plate for this stuff.  Unreal and definitely a rip.  This food was not worth more than $7 per plate.Service-Just very chaotic.  This place is cramped and the server did not seem to know who was who and who was doing or having what.  A mess but he was trying bless his heart.We were too early for the belly dancer and did not get to see the hookah and these probably would have been fun to experience.  All in all it was a new, interesting experience for me and the kids had a good time.  2 1/2 stars.

by Parham S.

This is the most embarrassing persian restaurant I've ever taken anyone to. They actually forgot to even take drink orders. After we had ordered, I had to flag down a different server, and ask them for water. When they brought it some time later, they brought the water in DIXIE CUPS! When we asked about that, the server said it was the new policy. I asked for a manager and was told I would not be able to see him unless I got up and walked to the back of the restaurant. He was busy. I looked over, and he was smoking a hookah. Great, I said forget it.Several minutes later, our water was removed, and water in glass cups was brought out.I don't like a restaurant that refuses to talk to you about an issue.And their menu is very limiting. No vegetarian items.