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House of Kabob II

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92 Corporate Park Irvine, CA 92606

949-261-8005 

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  • Persian
    Sun-Thu 11am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm
    $, $$
  • All Major Credit Cards, cash
    Delivery, Kid Friendly, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible
    Dinner, Lunch
  • Beer/Wine
    Accepted
    Lot Available
Description

Is there a mound of starch more glorious than Persian rice? Here, it's gloriously loose, freeflowing like sand in an hourglass, and always two-toned with a stripe of saffron in a sea of virgin white. Even the pan leavings, called tadig -- that burnt, crispy, brown crust that forms at the bottom of the rice pot -- is sold as a featured appetizer with your choice of dipping sauce. The rest becomes fodder for plates upon plates of char-burnished kebabs. With each fragrant grain, long and slender, you can taste the how the basmati is meticulously coddled and gently steamed to a wispy fluffiness with a touch of yogurt, salt and sugar.







  • 2010 | Best Middle Eastern Restaurant

    The Lake Forest location House of Kabob made this list last year. This year, it expanded to Irvine and only got better. The rice, a free-flowing mountain of loose grains with a faint saltiness and a yogurt-y tang, is the anchor to every meal--meals that start with juicy, char-flecked kebabs of lamb, chicken, beef and koobideh, a ground meat tube as soft as crumbly meatloaf. In their addas polo, what amounts to half a chicken is buried under a Sahara desert of rice. This time, the grains... More »

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  • House of Kabob's Persian Rice: The Lake Forest and Irvine Treat

    House of Kabob's Persian Rice: The Lake Forest and Irvine Treat

    | Thu, December 10, 2009

    Rice-IranianHouse of Kabob’s sublime Persian rice used to be just a Lake Forest treat, but now it’s in Irvine, tooIs there any starch more glorious than Persian rice? At House of Kabob, it’s loose, free-flowing like sand in an hourglass, and alwa... More »

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