The Persian Basket came highly recommended to us by someone who lives in John’s Creek. It was okay. Living in the perimeter, we have a lot of really great Persian and Mediterranean options. To be honest, even some of the small, privately owned Mediterranean places...
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The Persian Basket came highly recommended to us by someone who lives in John’s Creek. It was okay. Living in the perimeter, we have a lot of really great Persian and Mediterranean options. To be honest, even some of the small, privately owned Mediterranean places that would be considered “takeout” or “fast food” around here are better.To start, the service was not great. Our server was not very friendly and didn’t really seem like he wanted to be there. Everything took a very long time to come out. Even just our coffee, tea, and beet took a long time.We ordered an appetizer trio, with three dips for three people. This included hummus, a shallot yogurt, and baba ganoush. They only gave us four small slivers of bread. I had to ask for more, because that is clearly not enough for the entire appetizer and three people. It took almost as long to get the second serving of bread as it did to get the appetizer.The dips were actually very good. The hummus and yogurt were delicious. The baba ganoush was good, but a little weird. It had pomegranate in it and was a little sweet. It was not a traditional baba ganoush.The green mint tea I ordered was good. The strange part was that the server only had maybe two or three other tables there, and we only ordered a tea and a coffee, yet he didn’t remember who had ordered the tea. He very much seemed to be not paying attention, or caring, at all.The other two members of my party ordered the Shish Kabob and the Barg Kabob, which they really enjoyed. They said the meat was flavored well, and the vegetables were quite good. The rice was okay, but not as flavorful as expected.I ordered the Slow Cooked Lamb Shank. It was not what I expected, which is partially my fault for ordering and not asking. However, the description just said “Slow Cooked Lamb Shank,” then, “saffron, fava beans dill basmati rice.” So, to clarify, the fava beans are in the rice, which is just loaded with dill. I love dill, but it was like a whole dill plant in three servings of rice. The lamb shank was serviced in a bowl of juices and onions with one potato. Maybe the potato was a mistake (?). The lamb was completely flavorless. I felt like I was eating something from the Medieval Times, but that might actually have more flavor for the meat. The rice had actually too much flavor.Yeah. It was kind of overpriced (we spent around $160 for three meals, and appetizer, 2 beers, 1 codes, and 1 tea) and underwhelming. I can get better, cheaper kabobs, elsewhere. And I really think the kabobs might be the only good thing here.I am giving them a 3 because the kabobs were good. Aside of that, I would give a 2.