Like a lot of iconic restaurants, you don’t just go to Raffi’s Place — generally acknowledged as both the best Persian and the best Armenian restaurant in a land of many Persian restaurants, and ...

The Venn Food Diagram train has ventured west of India and landed in Armenia, the ancient landlocked country wedged between Iran, Azerbaijan and Turkey, which recently produced the world's earliest ...

The dishes listed below have disparate roots — some show Russian influences, others are distinctly Middle Eastern — but all are a part of Armenian food culture. From dumplings to stuffed vegetables to ...

On a Saturday night in the Persian restaurant Pardis in Glendale, customers gather behind the host stand placed between the shimmering bar and a glass wall filled with wine bottles. The host, most ...

Herand Tahmasian waited nearly 60 years to fulfill his dream of opening a restaurant. In 2019, Tahmasian left London for Los Angeles, where there's a demand for Persian food. He only knew a few ...