Shiraz Restaurant

We miss you, and are looking forward to you opening again! Consistently good food, and service!

My family is from Iran and this is definitely one of our favorite restaurants to dine at for some quality, authentic, take-​us-​back-​to-​our-​roots, Persian food! The Persian nick nacks hung all over the walls with downtempo persian music playing in the background makes its a very cozy, almost homie, atmosphere!
Every item we had was bursting with flavor and they do a good job of incorporating tons of spices to make simple dishes taste incredible. Start out with the shirazi salad, the garlic lemon yogurt, and the Eggplant dish (my favorite), which are all accompanied with fresh out the oven Pita bread!
Every one at my table shared the Soltani King Kabob plate and boy did we feel like royalty. ABSOLUTELY MOUTHWATERING! The plate paired perfectly with cooked saffron rice (the real stuff none of that mushy rice most restaurants serve nowadays), grilled tomato, and two huge kabobs– one ground beef & one flank. A little Persian secret, ask for an egg yolk and mix it with the rice, it brings out a really different and flavorful taste to the rice.
Stick to wine with your meal and stay away from the cocktails, there isn’t a bartender and the drinks are mixed in a very amateur fashion.
The owner plays the multi-​faceted role of bus boy bartender, and server, although admirable, he clearly needs some extra hands to help because the service was slow. That being said, the owner was really friendly and accommodating and even comped a free desert for my grandmas birthday!
Awesome food all around but could use some help on the service end. For that reason, I’ll give my dining experience 4 stars!

I did not like it, very blend and service is ok ok. I would not suggest and not worth a money.

Food tasted ok nothing special at all. Portions are extremely small for the price you pay. I ordered the lamb shank. Very little rice and a small shank of lamb. Not worth for $ 18.

Expensive and the baklava was tiny .they gave us too much rice. with the kabob. and the menu wasn’t updated so I ended up paying $ 18 for 4 – 5 pieces of shrimp .way too much but hey I don’t wanna be rude.2.5 stars from me.

If you love Middle Eastern food you would love this place this food is amazing it could be busy sometimes but not too bad

We went to the restaurant with a friend that is Persian and we have been there before with her. Once again it was an excellent meal. The are now making home bread with a cucumber sauce. It was perfect. We will be back and recommend to others

This is some really bland food. The rice is regular old white rice, not basmati, and there are no spices at all in it. The royal chicken kabob was very dry and tasteless. It was an orange filet again with no seasoning and no taste. The beef koobideh was a pale looking piece of more tasteless meat.
Very disappointing meal here. Even the falafel side I got was inedible. The falafel were clearly previously frozen and were dried out. The pita was rock hard. The best part of the whole meal was the tahini sauce

Always in search of new culinary experiences, I read about Persian food for a school assignment and decided to try it out. I wasn’t sure there were any Persian restaurants here in Denver, but was pleasantly surprised to discover that Shiraz Restaurant was not too far from me. A few days ago, we decided to try it out.
To drink, I ordered lemonade, but my husband was more adventurous and tried their ‘doogh’, a salty plain yogurt beverage, a very common Persian drink. I took a few sips, but was unable to wrap my mind around the unusual taste and thick texture. He, on the other hand, enjoyed it thoroughly.
After browsing through the appetizer section of the menu, we settled on the Mirza Ghasemi – and as someone who is generally not a big fan of eggplant, I was unexpectedly won over by this roasted, mashed version, mixed in with tomatoes and egg, which I found incredibly delicious. We did have to repeatedly ask for additional pita to be brought to the table; it seemed as if the owner – who was our server that day – had a limited supply of it and was hesitant to dole it out.
Our main course consisted of the chicken and lamb kabobs, served with a portion of hummus and another of tzatziki sauce. It was also accompanied with large plates of rice for each of us. Somehow I had imagined that a side salad would be included with the dish, like in other Middle Eastern restaurants, but unfortunately we did not see any leafy greens. The portions were very small, so we ordered another dish, this time a beef stew, which tasted good, but in which we only found three pieces of beef. The rest was just vegetables.
We were taken aback when we saw that our check came to $ 76! For the price of the entrees, the portion sizes should be much bigger. Other Middle Eastern restaurants we have eaten at usually run at around $ 40 for dinner for two.
We enjoyed exploring the tastes and flavors of Persian cuisine – but unless the prices become slightly more competitive, I don’t think we will be back again.

The food was good but not warm enough. The table, silverware and dishes ware clean. The food is so expensive for the amount that the costumer get. The serivce is incredibly BAD been there for 90 minutes. Eat something before you go, as the time it get them to prepare your food you will get hungry again.
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I don’t know how anyone could dislike the food here: it is delicious. for something different, try dishes like chicken with lemon and eggplant or chicken saffron. The koubideh is excellent for carnivores. There is a new server, and the service is much faster and friendlier than before.

Highly recommended: good quality authentic Persian food, friendly and quick service with reasonable prices. We went twice this past week and each time it was excellent: had the Koobideh and the Joojeh (on the bone and off the bone) and the Ghormeh Sabzi, each with a small starter salad with a zesty 1000-​Island dressing. The unlimited refills on the Persian tea is nice. Great southeast location with good parking. This restaurant compares well with the Persian restaurants in Los Angeles and London.

So– I’m at the ONLY PERSIAN restaurant in Colorado and it is DELICIOUS. We all tried like 10 different dishes and they were all amazing. Can’t believe I’m getting prime time LA quality PERSIAN food in LA! If you’re living in Colorado and want to delicious home-​cooked-​style fresh meal– come here and open your mind! Also you’re missing out if you don’t eat PERSIAN food in general. Yes I know I keep capitalizing the word Persian.

Saffron chicken is insanely good. Everything I’ve had here has been good. Restaurant vibe is a but stuffy /​outdated but the food is legit and authentic

this restaurant is one of the worst restaurant I ever been. Poor quality and extremely bad customer service. 3 times they brought our food wrong and the waiter was acting it is our fault. Don’t waist your time and money.
we went as a group and it was shocking experience

Was just there at 3 PM. The waiter would only care about the Persian customers, and was rude to non-​Iranians. Embarrassing behavior.
Also, the food was not fresh. Was I unlucky on this day?! Whatever. Will never go there again.

Get the saffron chicken. It’s out of this world. This restaurant is a hidden treasure. Anyone who says otherwise doesn’t have taste buds

I’m so excited to find a Persian restaurant! I’m from south California where we have our pick of great middle eastern food. The eggplant appetizer, lamb shank and chicken saffron are to die for.

I came here with a group for dinner because we have a few Persian food enthusiasts. Persian food is not entirely foreign to me, as I have gotten to eat delicious Persian food in Los Angeles, which has a big Persian community.
Our group was planning this big event for months and we had someone in contact with the restaurant for that whole period confirming with the restaurant that they could host the number of people we had (25 – 35 people). When it finally came to the event, I think we had around 25 people and we visited Shiraz during Persian New Year. Because of the holiday, they were offering only a few set meals, which I think is great when you have a large group because people can be indecisive otherwise.
There were a number of factors that add to this low review. First, I feel we were severely overcharged. Each meal was ~$ 30 and each meal was a tiny portion of meat/​vegetable with a lot of rice. Our group arrived slightly staggered in time, but the first set of people to arrive were not served any type of drink for 30 minutes. One individual ordered a glass of wine which was spoiled. In response to this bad wine, the server brought her two more glasses of spoiled wine from different bottles in the same bad case of wine.
Although, we had been planning this event and warned them of our large group, they only had one semi-​present server helping our large group. Service was really slow. I ordered their kabob of beef and chicken. The beef was OK and the chicken was dry. The only highlight of the meal were that the tilapia they served was tasty.
After this experience, I would not return here again.

Ive been into this place two times unfortunately. Owners are Iranian and way too disrespectful to us. The food (what we ordered; kobidah, eggplant dip, & chicken kabob) tasted terrible in a way that more than half of our plated remains untouched & this followed by a harsh stomachache two hours after.
I mean i tried Persian food elsewhere in Colorado cause my girlfriend is Persian but this one is just awful.
I really tried hard to find a positive feedback to post on… the only thing I can recall is that the restroom were clean.