I finally found a wonderful Persian restaurant after only a couple months of living in Europe and…read moreit was in Cologne of all places! Not that I was looking particularly hard or anything but the one place I tried in Paris a while ago was so "meh" and since I have family who is always looking for an excuse to cook kabob for me that I hardly ever look for places. But today after the Bayern game when this restaurant came up on Yelp as in the area, I had to try it. Especially since it bares the same name as one of Iran's most well known kabob restaurants. For appetizers we ordered the most-o-mooseer (sour yogurt with garlic), salad shirazi (tiny diced salad of onions, cucumbers, and tomatoes in lemon juice, oil, and vinegar), and naan-o-sabzijaat (fresh baked Persian flat bread with a plate of fresh herbs, a quartered white onion, small pieces of feta cheese, and sliced radishes. All were very traditional and good although the portions were smaller than I'm used to. There was also no garlic in the yogurt though. Think they forgot and gave me regular yogurt. For the main course we had 3 different Soltani dinners: joojeh, chenjeh, and regular. The regular came with a skewer of lamb barg which is usually a thin cut of the filet. This was good but a little chewier than others and you knew you were having lamb. I didn't try the joojeh (chicken) but the chenjeh (chunks of beef and spelled very weird in German on the menu) was the best meat of all. The koobideh which is always the second skewer on a soltani plate was great. The dinner was wrapped up with Persian tea. No, this wasn't the best kabob or the best ambiance but something about the familiarity of the food, the people, and the culture made this dinner perfect for a cold and wet night. I wish I had tried the desserts...

Delicious Persian food in Cologne. As a Iranian, I've grown up with mommas cooking my whole life…read moreand it is nice to walk in and instantly get the smell of fresh soltani and the different kebabs. The mixed grill, fessenjun, and gorma sebzhi are the most traditional dishes and this is how to judge a Persian restaurant. They absolutely nailed it here and the amount of food you get for paying a few more euros in comparison to the other Persian restaurants in the city is not worth it. This is my go to spot if I'm craving some homemade Persian dishes.

It's a decent döner place with more potential if they had more staff probably. The place looks like…read moreit could use some. Well the bread and durum are freshly baked on order so it's a big plus among cologne competitors. The meat is actually lamb , but can be made more crispy (possibly need more fat? And then it's not the same quality?)and less watery. It was perhaps as well because I go there at 8 when they close at 9(?? Really ? A döner place in Köln that closes at 9?).

This is the Kebab place I would recommend in Cologne. You will find a lot of restaurants with…read moresimilar menus here, but this quality is very rare. They bake great Turkish-stlye sandwich breads several times a day. Love it!

This spot is very popular and serves what I'd call elevated home cooking with good sized portions…read moreat a reasonable price. The dining room area is nice and service is friendly. It's close to town and my cousin's place and I like their dishes. I especially like that I can see the meats on display.

Saray is a popular Turkish Imbiss/Restaurant I have been to couple of times in Zentrum. Obviously,…read moreit is one class below compared to Turkish Restaurants that serve very good quality Turkish, Kurdish and Arabic food and specialties in Mülheim (Cologne) such as Kilim or Mevlana. Still, from what I remember, Saray served tasty pides, very salty, garlicky and standard mezes and huge and tasty portions kebab platters for reasonable prices. The primary reason why I stopped eating at Saray was not the terrible brunch (or better call it an open-buffet composed of unrelated food such as saggy french fries, day-old simits, cheese and haydari) experience I had, but was the rude treatment of the owner or whoever behind the counter on a quiet and lazy Sunday morning. That person literally scolded us loudly in front of everyone for placing our plates on the counter despite we first consulted to waiters with good intentions. He was so rude and mean that he even scolded the waiters afterwards, indeed without apologizing to us. Given the standard "Turkish" food they serve and bad service and treatment you get, I recommend foodies not to eat there unless they are really close to starvation or all other Turkish Imbisses in Bonn are somehow closed. P. S.: The bathroom is clean but always too cold for some reason.

Actually the meat tastes good. But , please, why - do - you - grill - the - prepackaged- durum -…read morewrap - after- it's - been - wrapped - in- a - toaster???? (First time I've had to write like this! So annoyed) Just why? It makes no sense! And the taste is no good because durum is not cooked through, the salad and zatziki don't taste good hot. You can do better. Just bake your own durum. Or at least cook the durum properly *before* filling it! You guys have potential!