Sofreh - Buy Reservations

From start to finish the meal was a 10/10!!! Can't wait to come back and try everything else on the menu!

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Her aura is so inviting, as well as her restaurant. This places offers true, Authentic Persian food in NY and the interior itself is so beautiful and modern. 10/10

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The food is amazing!!!they're so nice!Customer service was really great!Thank youuu Mr.Amir for being a nice to his customers and I really appreciate them!

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The best staff, great food,amazing atmosphere! Visiting from Los Angeles and had a blast!!! The host himself was so friendly...!

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I love everything about Sofreh - ambiance, cocktails, the evolution of the menu over time - every dish is exquisite.

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Perfectly represents the fancy but low-profile restaurant niche. The outside of this place is so inconspicuous, I missed it the first time I walked by. Reservations are extremely hard to come by and require a 24-hour confirmation or cancellation or else they will charge you for a no show ($20 a person). However you don't wanna miss the opportunity to eat here. The food is really high quality and flavor profile is unique. The lamb was my favorite dish. So tender it fell off the bone. It also still had a ton of flavor. The tahini and date salad has a nice and spicy tahini dressing. The stew was a lot lighter of a meal than it looks. The rice is a classic and very tasty. The food is on the pricier side, but ordering family style is the way to go.

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Insanely great! No reservations available on Friday night, but we walked in and got a seat at the bar. Wait staff and maitre d' were courteous and attentive. Bread, eggplant dip, bean and noodle soup, squash salad, and lamb shank were delicious (they recommend getting a side of pickles with the lamb shank). Rice was pretty good, as well.Things I didn't order that looked good: cucumber martini, baklava.

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Always delicious and delightful! I had a fabulous meal here before the whole pandemic got kicked off and made a note to self to return but haven't had a chance until last night in the aftermath of a snowstorm during which a friend and I got peckish from the nearby bar snacks we were grazing on and serendipitously were able to score two stools at this Persian hotspot. It's a beautiful space with wonderful food to match. A very nice place to take your family or out of town friends to show them the level of dining options we have here in the nabe. The owner normally walks around and talks to customers and the service as well as the food is outstanding. It's hard to get in here but the popularity is well deserved. It's a special place!

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Finally, after two years plus shelter in place, I was excited to check this restaurant out. I grew up in the restaurant business and appreciate warm hospitality plus delicious food. One of the owners, the younger brother, made me feel like I was at my persian uncle's place. We were treated super well and definitely left full. The Kashke bademjoon, broiled chicken, steak, and lubia polo were magnificent! Cocktails and tahdig weren't to my liking but that's ok. The rose water custard was so freaking good! I thought I was privileged being an LA persian to have so many options....no way, NY is lucky to have a great place with authentic persian media in their toilets (see for your self!).

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I'd been wanting to go here for a long time and finally got a reservation. SERVICE: Service was excellent through and through. I arrive early but was seated immediately, and a waitress arrived within a minute of me being seated to provide water and menus. She continuously refilled my water throughout the night and checked in frequently. Our food came out quickly, and the service was kind, attentive and helpful throughout the evening. FOOD: Now, I'm not Iranian so definitely not my place to speak to the authenticity, etc. I have had quite a bit of Iranian food though and I will say that what I had at Sofreh was nothing short of excellent, in my opinion. I had the kofteh to start, then shared the herb rice, lamb shank, and the "persian herb & noodle stew" (aka ash reshteh) and finished with the Persian black tea. Everything was amazing and so flavorful. Lamb literally fell off the bone, the ash reshteh was delicious (one of my favorite Iranian dishes), everything was great. Plated beautifully too. AMBIANCE: Really beautiful, minimalist interior design, romantic low lighting, a view into the kitchen, and a nice sleek bar at the front of the restaurant. Music was playing all night but not too loud- mainly modern Iranian music (i.e. Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh, X Band, Majid Razavi, etc) Bonus: Bathroom has super cool wallpaper of old Iranian movie posters. Great for selfies- iykyk. My *only* gripe is why not call some of these very traditional and common Iranian dishes what they are, instead of "persian herb & noodle stew"- it's ash reshteh! Or "dried lime & herb beef stew" - that's ghormeh sabzi. Totally realize that lots of the patrons here are not Iranian/are new to Iranian cuisine- but no need to Americanize the names! Anyway, would HIGHLY recommend to anyone, already looking forward to going back and trying out more of the menu.

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I write this review with a heavy heart, as the last thing I want to do is give less than five stars to a Persian-owned establishment. However, I think it is also important to be transparent for future customers, and also potentially management, so that they can make some improvements.Like so many other reviews, I have never had an issue with Sofreh's food in the nearly dozen times I've been there with my fiancé, family, or friends. Each dish is more aromatic, flavorful, and unique than the last and the seasonal menu makes it that much more special.However, where Sofreh loses points is in its unkind service and generally cheap tactics - which are to tell their waiters and waitresses to try and push all of the customers to order more and more food, even when the bill is already hundreds of dollars, and everyone at the table is full. The last time I was there, the waitress literally gave our party of three a dirty look because we only ordered TWO appetizers, FIVE main courses, and TWO desserts. This tactic is tacky, unnecessary, and takes away from the overall experience of eating here.All in all, really yummy restaurant in a city that is lacking good Persian food - but attitude and approach of service needs to be DRASTICALLY improved. We will not be able to continue eating here if we don't feel comfortable while we're trying to enjoy our dinner because the waiters have an attitude problem.

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This was my second time visiting Sofreh and I had just as much of an enjoyable time as the first time. The owner Nasim was there and she couldn't be more accommodating and friendly. It's also great to see Iranian food in a different "upscale" way. Highly recommend the lamb, the steak, the eggplant app, meatball, feta flat bread (w0w the flavors). Will definitely be back!

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I can attest to all the glowing reviews. But I can emphasize enough how you must must get their Persian ice cream. I wished they would sell it by the pint so I could have it all the time: it's THAT good. Hints of saffron and amazing spices - simply beautiful.

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I have to start with the great and amazing. I made a reservation for 5 and we became 6 and when we arrived it was NO problem. Already 5 stars. We were seated right on time and all the way thru the end of the meal the service was exemplary. From management, all the way to servers and help. 5 stars again. But when it comes to food, Here are two different reviews :For Iranians :Not for us. I'm all for re-imagined, deconstructed, creatively adapted ethnic cuisine to make it palatable for the locals. But her attempts to do that has taken the food way beyond recognizable taste of the motherland. And we did taste a wide variety of all the fares so we could really be objective. The one and only main dish that was close to its original was the Ghormeh-Sabzi. And it was not even a good one. The white rice was very good though , Very much like how it would be made by a real Persian cook. The bread looked more like the Indian "Naan" but was great and warm. Everything else, wasn't even remotely close to its origins. The kabob was steak, the chicken was more Italian than Iranian, the fish was ????? The kashké-bademjan was actually awful and uneatable. The Tah-Dig, the feather in the cap of all Persian cooks, was the greatest disappointment. Please stop. For Others and American born:You can have a decent meal if you are looking for that exotic adventure. The tastes are adapted to please you somehow. But don't be fooled, this is not Persian food. There are some authentic Persian kabob houses that deliver good quality Persian barbecue, but fail at really creating the variety that the real Persian cuisine has to offer. Look at my pictures to get a view of what those possibilities are. We will be waiting for that amazing chef that will be able to bring Persian cooking to the American culinary experience. I was hoping so much that Sofreh was that......

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Would have been five stars but I don't appreciate waiters trying to upsell me when I say I want to just order a bunch of appetizers, or imply that I can't place additional orders if we're still hungry, especially when I ended up spending the same, if not more, than if I had done entrees instead. Ambiance downstairs was great, food absolutely delicious (cauliflower, feta flatbread, kofteh, date and lentil rice, tahdig, ice cream) with the exception of possibly the worst baklava I've had in my life, very dry.

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limited hours. dine in only. Love to sample to food... just too difficult. Will update if ever they allow take out, answer their phone or restrictions allow safer eating

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