Nasrin’s Kitchen

Located in a crumbling Gilded Age mansion on 57th Street, Nasrin’s Kitchen is an Iranian restaurant where the dried rose petals, framed calligraphy and lute music feel completely in tune with the House of Mirth interiors. If you’re in Midtown and looking for a casual, early dinner, stop by for homestyle food and the most endearingly all-over-the-place, family-style service you’ll find this close to Bergdorf Goodman.

Get a hot bowl of ash reshteh or eggplant dip with fresh bread before tackling the mound of rice, topped with crunchy golden tahdig, that comes with your stew or kebab entree. Indulge in fantasies about the marbled mansion’s glamorous past over a cup of tea with saffron sugar and rose-scented baklava, then tumble towards Central Park for a much-needed constitutional.

photo credit: Sonal Shah

photo credit: Sonal Shah

photo credit: Sonal Shah

photo credit: Sonal Shah