Shamshiry
8607 Westwood Center Drive, Vienna, VA 22182
3.1/5.0
26 reviews

Shamshiry offers Persian cuisine. Open Mon-Sat, 11:30am-11pm. Closed Sunday.  Added on June 30, 1999 and last updated 2 years ago

Shamshiry
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6
Muscat, Muscat
 
★★★★  Great when i use to live there we used to go every month now we moved across seas but now everytime we go we must go there<3 great food but terrible waitresses

29
United States
 
★★★★★  Their best dish is their cheapest dish = kabob-e-kubideh!

1
United States
 
  I am very suspicious of this place's halal status and have not eaten there in over a year at least because of it.

I've been in the past on four separate occasions. On each occasion I was told different things about the menu. Once I was told everything was halal, at other times that only the beef items are, at other times that only the chicken items are. One time the waiter said only the chicken jujeh was halal; I asked about another chicken dish and he said its not halal....So yeah, would advise against until someone here can get solid confirmation.

59
Woodbridge, VA
 
★★★  I work down the street so figured I'd give it a try, chicken kabob was ok,still tryingto figure out why the spice is minimal if any, the salmon was good. Only downside is the bread is more like a taco tortilla than any afghan or iranian place I've been. Maybe if I go back I'll save it to make a burrito. Lol. Food was good though. Needs to have halal sign, or at least somewhere inside.

11
United States
 
  No taste

603
San Francisco, CA
 
★★★★  Went here for dinner. This place is considered fine dining compared to the other Persian restaurants in the area that serve food on paper plates. The kubideh and chicken jujeh were both very good. Service was impressive. We were assured that the meat was halal.

20
Stafford, VA
 
★★★★★   The heart of the Persian menu is the spit-fired kebabs and the lovingly gilded rices, called polos—dishes for which this tiny restaurant in a Tysons office building has almost no peer.

The kubbideh, or beef-kebab platter, is a marvel—two long flanks of luscious, assertively seasoned minced meat. A mound of fluffy, buttered white rice alongside the meat waits for you to crack in a raw egg—you order it extra—and stir until the grains are glossy and rich. To say that no other dish approaches this pinnacle of deliciousness is not a slur. The soft, pink salmon with herbed rice is excellent, as are the chicken kebabs, succulent cubes crusty with char from the grill. Rice is an end in itself in Persian cooking, and Shamshiry honors the tradition with its shirin polo, a fragrant dish studded with pistachios, almonds, and candied orange peel and suffused with saffron.

The prices are so reasonable and the surroundings so plain that you don’t expect to be taken care of. But there’s elegance in eating here, from the white tablecloths to the lovely pot of hot tea available for the end of the meal. It’s a fine companion for the cream roll or the saffron-and-rose-water ice cream—a dish as simple and luxurious as Shamshiry itself.


2
Leesburg, VA
 
NR  This restuarant is not Halal.Dont decieve yourself.If you think halal is saying bismillah before eating than it is halal.

3
Chantilly, VA
 
★★  I talk to Br. Saleem he said everything Halal except the steak cheese. I ask him where you buy you Meat , he said i'm not going to tell you . Every place i ask they had no problem telling me where they get their meat from. Did not order

2
Herndon, VA
 
★★★  the food was very good. first time, we will come again.

33
Stillwater, OK
 
★★★  I ate there a while ago. I was not impressed with the food and found it overpriced.

United States
 
  My father knows owners and this place is NOT halal.
The staff and management tell each customer something different.
Please take off zabihah.com.

3
East Meadow, NY
 
★★★★★  Everything is zabeeha except for the steak. That is exactly what they will tell you if you call or eat there. Please put back on the zabeeha list -- it is an excellent restaurant.

United States
 
★★★★  We confirmed with a previous employee and discovered that Shamshiri restaurant
does not use Halal meat as they verbally claimed. If the carry Halal meat then they should post the Halal meat sign on their door or in their menu like other Halal restaurants in the area.

United States
 
★★★★  Great food rice is great, but Bread and kabob in Vienna has better Bread

United States
 
★★★★★  My first Persian food, and it was wonderful. We shared steak, ground beef and chicken with tadeeg rice. Great food, especially the green stuff with the flat bread!

United States
 
  They cook Haraam and supposedly Halal meat in the same area. So regardless the Halal meat becomes Haraam when mixed with the juices of the Haraam

United States
 
  Still not halal, please put on non halal list.

United States
 
★★★★★  Excellent service. They say the only dish that is not halal is the filet mignon.

United States
 
★★★  good food, but mobys is better

United States
 
★★★  Most dishes are not halal...

United States
 
  Meat is not Halal they buy from SISCO I asked one of the server. Please be careful

United States
 
★★★★★  "Very beautfiul and delicious, the tadeeg is great"

United States
 
★★★  the food is good...the service is slow and under staffed

United States
 
★★★  Food is typical Persian.

United States
 
★★★  "Some dishes are not halal - to be safe, ask first."
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