Eater LAのインスタグラム(eater_la) - 10月6日 09時05分

At Persian restaurant Sadaf, located in a plain, single-story building along Encino’s bustling main drag of Ventura Boulevard, a manager wearing a crisp black button-down greets diners with a smile and slight bow. Under the central dining room’s wide brick archways, a guitarist strums “Bésame Mucho.” A single red rose sits in the middle of each table. Families and friends fill the brightly lit room, sharing rows of succulent kebabs, mountains of steaming rice, and aromatic, comforting Iranian stews called khoresht.

This scene paints a picture of why an Iranian family has continued to operate some of the most successful Persian restaurants in Southern California across two generations. Sadaf Salout, a second-generation restaurateur and owner of Sadaf (@sadafrestaurant_la) in Encino and Thousand Oaks, and her twin sister, Darya Salout, the manager of Darya (@daryarestaurantoc_la) of Orange and Santa Monica, have been living and breathing the restaurant business since they were children. Their father, Ali Salout, and his brother, Shawn Saloot, originally founded Darya restaurant in Orange back in 1986, a few dozen miles from the heart of Tehrangeles, helping to establish Iranian restaurant culture in Southern California.

Click on the link in bio to read the story by Melody Barooni (melodybarooni).

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