Kashcool Kitchen

Best Persian restaurant out there, hands down. I usually split the Queens platter with 1 or 2 friends (depending on how hungry we are).
Their beef & chicken kabobs are juicy as hell, and don’t even get me started on the lamb… it’s out of this world. One of my favorite restaurants in the LA/​Valley area.

The food here might be the best Persian cuisine I’ve ever had… Seriously! The chicken was soo tender, juicy, and flavorful… And the filet mignon kabob was off the chain.

Well that was tasty!!! Everything was perfect, the lamb, chicken, and ground beef kabobs were all tender and delicious. The lamb was my favorite, I wish I was eating it now. This place is great for a casual dinner, a date night, and a celebration. The service was outstanding and the atmosphere was delightful. I would come back in a heartbeat.

This place is REALLY good! I think I’ve eaten here now 3 days in a row. The koobideh, barg, and joojeh kabobs are off the chain! You can taste the quality… I’m told the lamb rack is a must try… so maybe that’s next on my agenda here. Been coming for takeout the past few months now, and every time I always wonder why I don’t eat more often. People are nice too.

Amazingly good food! I was skeptical at first but their meat including the chicken (which is usually dry at other Mediterranean restaurant) are juicy. I will definitely come back and bring my friends and family here. The service is fast and the place is clean. This place deserves the 5 star!

i worked on that block for years and never went until a friend asked to go there for lunch with a group of our friends. She was raving about it. I heard it was good but I never expected THAT good.
Literally all of us ordered Chicken Kabob and Cherry Rice. It came with a salad too and we ordered and eggplant dish for the table. The chicken was so moist and flavorful — amazing. But the Cherry Rice was beyond. Did I say amazing? And the eggplant we had was also very very good. We all have Ice Tea which was full of herbal leaves too. My only complaint is when we ordered the rice we were told it would be a small charge of $ 5. = it was $ 6.00 each. We did not say anything but we should have been told. Not all of us would have ordered it.
I have told everyone I know that a visit to this place is a must. Really really good. Only sorry i have not been there before.

Hard to rate this place since I am not familiar with Persian cuisine. I find persian and meditterranean food to be very mild flavored so I think this is very much an acquired taste. You could say the same about tofu dessert which has a very subtle taste. Some people loved it some people don’t.
I can’t say the food was fantastic but on the other hand it was not bad either. It is a little on the expensive side for what I ordered in a casual neighborhood joint.

Had an early dinner here with a friend last Sunday. It was a choice between here and Bibi Sara, and I chose here because they had more reviews than Bibi Sara, and both have an averaged rating of 4 stars.
Started with a Tahdig with Fesenjan (stew made with walnuts and pomergrantes) and Gheymeh (stew made with split yellow peas and tumeric). The Fesenjan had beef, while the Gheymeh had chicken. Both were delicious. Normally, I find the Fesenjan to be overpowering from the walnuts, but this one was not has heavy and had a light sweetness from the pomergrante molasses.
For entrees, my friend had the Lamb Kabob dinner, which came with about 6 pieces of lamb chops. I ordered the Barg Sultani (beef filet barg and beef koobideh). My go-​to dish. Both were served with saffron basmati rice and 2 grilled tomatoes. The lamb was $ 25, and the barg sultani was $ 24. Prices are a little on the higher side compared to some other Persian restaurants. Lamb was tasty and rather tender, even though some parts were cooked to a medium/​medium well. The seasoning rub helped tenderized the meat.
Similar seasoning rub was used for the beef barg and beef koobideh, though I found my barg to be a bit overcooked, especially considered how thin the strip of filet is. Koobideh was delicious. What would have topped off my dinner would be some butter. Rice was a bit on the dry side, and adding butter into the piping hot rice (which wasn’t the case here), and melting it, the butter would make the dry rice more tasty, especially since it’s bland and you can barely taste the saffron.
Service was attentive. Will head over to Bibi Sara’s next time and try them to compare.

Seriously the best Persian food I’ve had in a really long time. We got the Queen platter (#70 which includes lamb, chicken, and ground beef Koobediuh skewers) and it was absolutely phenomenal.
We sat outside on their patio and enjoyed the iced tea (mint and lemon) and the hot Persian chai before our entrée showed up. Really relaxing and enjoyable.
The reason it isn’t five stars is the service leaves much to be desired. They are extremely friendly but quite aloof as we had to flag them down to order and to get refills.
Food: 5+ stars
Service: 3 stars

I’ve ordered Persian food for pickup a few times. I ordered the Prince’s platter which has fillet mignon flattened skewer, chicken breast skewer, and beef koobideh. They put it in a tray along with rice and grilled tomatoes. The food quality is great, and tasty. The rice is good, and the meat is tasty and juicy. I haven’t had the chance to dine in. I’ve always enjoyed eating their food. It’s a bit pricey, so it’s not a place that I would eat all the time. They have inside seats and a patio outside as well. I would recommend others to try good quality Persian food.

Holy crap MOST AMAZING PERSIAN FOOD IN LA!!!
Overtime I’ve gone I’ve gotten Mariam as our server. She is the sweetest and super attentive.
LOVE their huge Kabob platters!

This place is ok. The check deserves 5 stars. It’s tough to find a place that cooks their chicken well and does have those weird parts to it. The rice was sort of tasteless.
For the price you’d expect more than just rice and chicken and two tomatoes…

I’m a dirt clod. I wanted to like it. I really, really did. Nice people, really. But as far as Persian food goes, it misses by a long shot.
It’s a casual setting. Adorned by large dark wall art, 2 – 3 tones, of Ancient Persia. I like it, but that’s the only thing that separates Kashcool from a coffee shop diner. In fact, Cables in the same parking lot has more character, and I don’t much like it. Inside is a little better with wood tables and chairs, outside feels like a make shift patio, a little unfinished. A long bed of rose bushes and a non-​working fountain that acts as a stream (and savior).
They claim it’s authentic. Perhaps, whom am I to say. But my gf is Persian, so I eat Persian food 1−2x per week. I think I know what’s good, and this my friends, is not. And to top of the «casual» dining is that it’s pricey to boot. Stews are $ 12 – 15 (not bad) but Kabobs $ 12 – 25, and that’s just too much. They have fancy restaurant pricing, but without a tad of music or belly dancing.
1. A Prince Grill Platter for 2 – 3 is $ 35 — a beautiful presentation on a very large platter (18″ or so), with filet mignon, chicken kabob, and koobideh. Filet was good (4.0 stars), chicken kabob was dry and not tender at all (2.0 stars), and koobideh was seasoned well, but overall not good with a strange sticky texture (3.0 stars). The rice quality was suspect with yellow color atop, but hard to believe it’s saffron. $ 35? About $ 9 too much.
2. Homemade Mint Dough ($ 3, 4.0 stars) — pronounced «Doog», it kicks booty on store bought but fresh mint would have been a nice touch over dried.
3. Mast-​o Mousir with green onion ($ 5, 3.5 stars) — Nice texture with a green onion blended within the yogurt, but far from the best I’ve had.
The service was very nice and accommodating, but nothing was generously offered to us – not onion, not butter, not lemon. Trying to cut corners? Felt like it. The food is mediocre at best and I would not go back. There are a ton of other Persian places around, some of which serve Sangak bread (my fav). Overall, 2.5 stars.

I’ve been to this restaurant 15 times in last year only because it’s one and a half hour away from my house. I have recommended this place to everyone I know because this is the best Persian food I’ve ever had. Every time I’ve been here, the quality of food and hospitality gets better and better. If I lived by this place. I will be here everyday.

My sis in law is persian/Iranian…and am spoiled by her families cooking.
Kashcool serves pretty good food in a nice setting (if weather is nice dine outside on the patio… it is very very chill and quite enjoyable).
Their kabobs are very tasty… Chicken was cooked perfectly and very tasty. Their rack of lamb is really really delicious. Rices are good not great… Persians are fanatical about rice so I am spoiled.
My app of the eggplant (Kashk-​e-​Bademjan) was nice. Great with the warm lavash.
Watermelon and lemonade drinks are really awesome… go for it!!!
Khoda hafez

Wow — people in this part of the Valley sure are lucky to have this quiet little gem of a uniquely wonderful little restaurant! If we lived in Woodlands Hills or close by we would dine here at least 2 – 3 times a month!
We were flying in from home (Houston) with our puppy Ricky Martin and wanted to find a good place to eat late afternoon, with a dog friendly patio, before our daughter (lives in Canoga Park) got home from work. Apart from the requirement of the dog patio for little Ricky we wanted somewhere that had decent reviews and served food not laden with masses of salt etc. I bookmarked this place before we left TX and head there straight from LAX just before the traffic became horrendous (arriving at about 3.30pm).
Tucked away in the corner of a little strip mall was Kashcool which has been around since 1969 (first in Iran, then Vancouver and now Woodland Hills) run by the same family and handing down recipes from generation to generation. Service was amazing in every way, we were served by 2 ladies — one young lady and also a descendant (daughter?) of the founder — attentive, friendly and helpful both of them.
It is NOT a white tablecloth type of establishment, but more casual, with plenty of seating inside as well as the large, covered dog-​friendly patio. All the reviews were great and the menu looked/​looks interesting and authentic so off we went. We both ordered water, my wife a hummus appetizer (not my thing) and I took a Persian Chai (soothing and delicious).
After discussing the options with our servers I ordered the lamb rack shashlik kabobs, which my wife contemplated also but having had lamb the day before she opted for the ground beef (we ended up doing a little exchanging anyway). Rather than taking the standard basmati rice the owner (who prepares everything from scratch) pointed out the rice with lentils and dates which my wife took, and I was sold on the rice with sour cherries.
When the orders came they were plentiful, beautifully presented and at perfect temperature. We were both in Nirvana!
The flavors were delicious and so enjoyable. I sat there savoring every bite and thought of all the times we are all served food that is prepared at some central food processing facility covering several acres and transported in massive refrigerated or freezer trucks to a restaurant (fast food like McDonalds, all the way to middle of the road chains and even some white tablecloth restaurants) where it is then heated by some high school kid or college undergrad, or sometime budding chef before coming to the table. Often loaded in salt and ingredients supplied in massive quantities and processed days earlier.
At Kashcool I was savoring a meal made by hand, with love, with skill and just oozing flavor and character. Both the lamb and the rice were done to perfection — and the sour cherry rice had taste buds dancing. My wife oohed and aahed over her lentil rice with dates but I didn’t want to try it for risk of spoiling my palette which was writhing in ecstasy with the sour cherry experience.
When we were finished I really did not want dessert (really trying to keep carbs under control) but the ice cream was calling me! They don’t have 31 flavors — they don’t even have 2! They have one flavor of ice cream — Persian — with rose water, saffron and pistachios. I HAD to try it and so my wife and I split the two scoops (check out my pic). You only need one flavor!!! There is no need for Rocky Road or anything else. Absolutely blew us away. Spectacular!!!
Will we be back? Hell yeah! Will we move to Woodland Hills? Maybe — just for Kashcool :)
Review #31 2016

Wow, the food was great, but the service was over the top awesome!
I came here for a girls night and we couldn’t decide what we wanted. The server was a complete sweetheart and took her time going over the menu in detail. After some negotiations, we decided on a queen’s meal with an extra chicken skewer, grilled veggies and berry rice. The queen’s meal came with lamb, ground beef and chicken. The lamb was out of this world!!! :drool: I was SOOO lucky that one of my friends don’t eat lamb, I ate her portions. hee hee hee…
Toward the end of the meal, there was rice and meat left and everyone was telling me I could take it home… um. yea… I ate it all… =D
I was trying to eat slowly to give others the opportunity to eat some food, but once I knew they were done. NOM NOM NOM!
Warning — the grilled veggies came with 3 jalepeno peppers — not for the faint of heart!
Love this place and can’t wait to come back!
I want more lamb now T-​T

Kashcool Kitchen is a FANTASTIC little gem in Woodland Hills.
The food is incredible and the service is always great; everyone is so attentive and friendly.
My husband and I cant get enough of their Shirazi Salad, Dolmeh, and the Chicken Breast Joojeh Sultani Kabob Combo. Also, do yourself a favor and save room for dessert– their Mashti Ice Cream is so, so, so good. Their Baklava is also great, but I truly love their Ice Cream.
They have both indoor seating and outdoor patio dining, and if you are more of a take-​out person– they have that too.
All in all, a fantastic little place that my husband and I just love.

A friend of mine convinced me to come back here again. In late 2014 I wrote a bad review because most of the items on their menu were scratched out and all the sides and substitutions were ridiculously expensive.
I ordered the 1 beef Koobedieh skewer with rice and salad ($ 10). The skewer was pretty tasty but I can’t say it’s my favorite and for $ 10 the portion is pretty small.
I’ll just stick with Shirin or Orchid.

This restaurant is 5 star. There is no doubt about that. Absolute underdog in comparison to raffis place or any other legendary ones out there.
The tomatoes were beautiful, just perfect sweet and the cucumbers absolutely fresh. The cilantro and parsley were as if they picked from their herb garden minutes before serving. The garlic cilantro chutney was out of this world. I have never experienced such beautiful flavors explode ever.
The egg plant dip was just fantastic. The fried onions and roasted garlic just took the dish to an altogether different level.
We ordered the family lunch: no.72 on the menu. I am not exaggerating but this one will give all the legendary Persian restaurants a run for their money. The filet mignon was of superior quality. The chicken was perfectly cooked and the beef koobideh was the best I have ever had. The roasted tomatoes just added a hint of acid and was fantastic. The long grained basmati rice was cooked perfectly and saffron added to the flavor. I could just eat the rice and sleep. Overall quality of food is excellent. Don’t hear anyone if at all cribbing about quality or quantity. This is the best.
Now the sad part. We went there on a Saturday. It wasn’t very crowded. There were couple families… It took the waiter 15 minutes to acknowledge us. We were not offered water. It took a couple of us to actually call them to our table. The order was taken and served. They never came back to ask if we were ok. I was parched and asked for water. 10 minutes passed, she totally forgot about it. My wife just walked up to the counter and fetched me a jug. Service was extraordinarily sad. I could understand if the restaurant were crowded. Unfortunately in this case it wasn’t. There were two busboys. But it just sucked.
They are such a good restaurant that if a couple folks report such bad service, it could have impact.
I am all praise for the food. I want to reiterate — this is the most authentic Persian food at a very economical price. But Service needs to go up. They need to pull their sock up.
The only reason for 4 star is because of bad service.
Give these guys a try! It’s just worth it.