Summer has come, the sun shines and we wanted to get out of Tel Aviv, not too far, in the outskirts to try some true, tasteful and traditional Persian food. Some days ago, we jumped in our car and headed North-East towards Ramat HaSharon to Edna, a Persian Restaurant.
It’s quite amazing to see the change of landscape from Tel Aviv, with neighborhoods leaving space to wider spaces and some interesting residential compounds along the road. Up to Trumpeldor st. in Ramat HaSharon that almost looks like a main road of an American town, surrounded by terrain lots with houses and villas each with its own style. Almost in front of the restaurant there is beautiful squared house, with dark gray walls and light brown wooden doors and what could be a beautiful garden.
The entrance to the restaurant is a small door of a low building covered with green leaves. A guard in front of the entrance kindly opens the door and you suddenly enter a cosy and warm place with an oldish traditional attitude and wooden tables resembling a large living room. We got seated on a corner table which was good for us as the place tends to be quite noisy.
We started with two traditional starters: smoked eggplants with home baked onion bred and fried dumpling “pheiaz” style filling with meat, onion and cinnamon. The eggplants salad was fresh, lemonish and together with the bread it created a warm “homey” flavor. The dumplings were a complete surprise, the meat with the sting of the cinnamon and the white sugar powder that was sprang above gave a joy to the tongue and was comforting as a clever dessert.
For main course I chose the “Mossama” which is made of slices of beef with a hint of eggplants covered with fresh tomato souse, and my partner went with the traditional fish meatballs deepen in what was supposed to be spicy tomato sauce. The main courses come with an optional side dish of plane rice, persian yellow rice, smashed potatoes and baked potatoes. We both went with the yellow rice which was cooked “al dente” and had a touch of raisins that gave it a twist in the taste as much as in the colors. The beef was good, nice and soft in the mouth, but the sauce was a bit too heavy and in fact we couldn’t finish it and took the left overs home. The fish meatballs had a gentle refine taste, but not so much as even closed to be spicy as we expected.
We left Edna with a bag full of left overs which kept us satisfied for a whole another day. We will definitely return to try the other dishes, or at list for the fabulous “pheiaz” dumpling which were like the meaning of “Edna” in Hebrew: tenderness.
Price: 130 shekels + 25 glass of white wine
Web Site: http://www.edna-rest.co.il/
Reserve in advance during week-end
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