Cuisine > Restaurants > PAYMON'S MEDITERRANEAN CAFE & HOOKA LOUNGE IN LAS VEGAS BY SARA SEPIDZADEH
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Paymon's Mediterranean Cafe and Hooka lounge is supposed to offer the best Persian food in all of Nevada, which is why we made the effort to visit it, when in Las Vegas. The restaurant is unfortunately off the strip, and therefore not a quick walk away. But in a cab, it does not take more than 10 minutes to get there.
It is housed in a stripmall, next to other local shops and offers a subdued entrance. On the night of our visit, the hooka bar was only half-full and there were maybe 3 other tables occupied in the restaurant.
We proceeded to order a few items off the menu, which included the Khoroshteh Gheimeh, Dolmeh and the mixed grill, a major Kabob dish which we intended to share among all of us.
The food arrived very quickly with a less than interested waiter, who was maybe a magician on his night off.
The verdict for the good was all around just average. The gheimeh did not have a particularly unique or exceptional taste. The dolmeh was more similar to the Turkish or Greek variation, and the Paymon Kabob was average meat with saffron rice, which could have been longer and more aromatic.
Overall, the LA restaurants in the US far outweight any of their counterparts. If you are on a trip to Vegas and are desperate for a little taste of Iran, then go to Paymon's but otherwise, I would avoid it.
A look at their website, reveals two locations, and a vague logo with a greek column, labelling the restaurant ''Mediterranean''. I wish our cuisine will one day be bold enough and declare its own stake on the world stage of cuisines, so that we know once and for all, what we stand for.
Paymons is located at:
Paymon's Mediterranean Cafe & Hookah Lounge
8380 W. Sahara Ave
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s='''' face=verdana size=2 2?? ?? menu_item_desc=''''>Las Vegas, NV 89119
Phone (702) 731-6030
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Paymon's Mediterranean Cafe & Hookah Lounge
4147 So. Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89119
Phone (702) 731-6030
For more, visit their website at www.paymons.com.
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Sara Sepidzadeh is an artist and journalist from Chicago, Illinois.
With a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Chicago, Sara has always been involved in the arts and literature. When in college, she ran the advertising and marketing office of the school newspaper. She has since worked as a free lance journalist and writer for two newspapers in Tehran. More recently, she has been working at ABOUT, Chicago Magazine, and PerisanMirror.
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This article was contributed by SARA SEPIDZADEH, Special Contributor for PersianMirror.
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