When I realized that my favorite Chinese restaurant was closed for summer holiday, I searched on the internet for some other interesting restaurant to blog from, and to my surprise I found Persian food right here in the Coachella Valley. The restaurant offers both Italian and Persian food and is owned, so my waitress told me, by a Turkish family from Istanbul. I ordered the grilled swordfish kabob, and it came with cubes of marinated and moist swordfish, with intense flavor and great grill marks, that lay on a bed of basmati saffron rice. The dish came with a grilled and very juicy tomato, cut in half, as well as onion, red pepper strips, and thin eggplant slices, all grilled. There was also a ramekin of hummus and another one with cucumber mint yogurt sauce. The meal was accompanied by some wedges of pita bread. There was some crunch from the onion and pepper, some creaminess from the hummus and the yogurt, and a touch of sour from the yogurt and the tomato. The rice was a bit under seasoned but that worked well with the intensely seasoned fish. This meal was savory, juicy, and memorable.
Location: Francesco's Cafe, 72047 Dina Shore, Suite C-1, Rancho Mirage, California. Date: July 23, 2022.
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AuthorChef Roland has been a legal resident of seven countries and has travelled in over thirty, documenting food along the way. He currently resides in the desert in Southern California. Categories
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