Alborz Restaurant

It shares its name with a mountain range in northern Iran, so it's rather apt that getting to this spacious restaurant requires an ascent, albeit only a no-hiking-boots-required one level up. Once you set up camp, stake your claim of fluffy Persian rice, and meat aplenty. Lamb is the main event, as in baghali polo ba mahiche - a Flintstones-sized lamb shank alongside rice mixed with broad beans and masses of dill, or barg - thinly sliced tenderloin marinated in olive oil, lemon, saffron and onion, served with char-grilled tomato and saffron rice. Reheated starter dishes may underwhelm, but jugs of doogh (yoghurt drink) and Persian ice-cream ensure your descent back to street level is with full stomach.