The food was super delicious!
Kabab koobideh
Highly recommend the Joojeh kabob. The chicken breast is wonderfully spiced and cooked to perfection resulting in a melt in your mouth experience.
Absolutely amazing experience! The owner and staff are friendly providing incredible service. They were taking the time to provide information about the food and menu. The food was absolutely amazing and if you are there for the first time you will have a tough time picking from the menu as everything tastes so good. You know you can’t go wrong when the owner is on the front line guaranteeing excellent service and great food. Absolutely recommend this place!
Today was probably my 3rd visit to Rayhoon. The food is amazing! The service is exceptional, servers are professional and engaged with customers. They are specialized in tasty Persian food and they perfect it. I do recommend this restaurant located at Village Square in Burlington, Ontario.
Amazing food amazing service top notch
Food was great!! I LOVE their Barbari Bread!!!! Its a must try and its cheap for $3. The dipping sauces are delicious!! I personally liked the one with eggplant. Kebabs are I didn’t personally like the Lamb shank …too much lamb flavor for me. If you wanna try hot chocolate with rose flavor infused please order it!! You will not regret it trust me!! The tea is okay ??
Burlington is a very cute and quiet restaurant in the old city. The owner of the business greets you sincerely. Staff are friendly and helpful. It's one thing to do their job and be willing to please them. For this reason, I congratulate the staff. The food service was very fast and hot. The ayran is delicious and the mint flavor spreads on your palate. The lamb meat is also very well cooked and the broad beans in the rice are a different flavor. Prices are normal. It can even be said that it is suitable for a restaurant of this standard. I was also pleased with the cleanliness of the glasses and plates, the meticulous wiping of the empty tables, the partitions between the tables. Thank you. I recommend.
I must say this is my go to restaurant and this is where I find my comfort food. Every visit here made it extra special by Mahmoud the father of the owner. He is pleasant, welcoming and very accommodating. He always made us feel like we're family. I just wanna share our favorite set of order, like for the first timers this is a must try Rayhoon trio sampler (bademjoon, hummus, and zeytoon) with barbari bread for starters and for your mains the star of the grilled entrees, the most tender and juiciest with explosion of flavors in every bite Koobideh kabob with shirazi salad and borani for side dishes. It's perfect in every wayand it compliments every bit of it. You gotta try it yourself. Not only that the ambience is quite nice and it's like the center of the village square. The service is fantastic too. Overall, it's the perfect restaurant for me.
The exterior sign was colourful with exotic flair. While I liked the brickwork, the interior did not give you the feeling of having been whisked away on a Persian carpet. The restaurant was of ample size. Service staff and maitre d' were pleasant and efficient. We each had a 9 oz glass of wine, tiding us through the meal. My friend, an admitted wine snob, was disappointed with her Australian shiraz, sensing it was from a previously opened bottle. My Chilean sauvignon blanc was middling to fine. An oddity: the online menu is at least for alcoholic drinks appreciably shorter than the restaurant version, only wines available by the glass on the former. Shared the Rayhoon Trio Sampler for a starter. The Zeytoon Parvardeh were green olives over which a pomegranate, walnut, lemon and herb mix was drizzled. The olives were a bit tart for my liking. The Rayhoon Hummus was flavoured with basil, a nice spin on a classic dish. The Kashkeh Bademjoon was the star, eggplant in a yogurt with garlic, onion and mint in the mix. Then came the fatal choice. The three dishes could have been sampled for their flavours but we added the Barbari bread, a traditional flat bed served piping hot. It was delicious but it was heavy. By the time we had finished--more accurately, given up on completing--the sampler dishes I was feeling pleasantly full. For main courses, my friend found her Abgoosht or Dizi rather bland. The presentation in a traditional brass pot was good. I opted for the Fesenjoon, a stew featuring chicken and butternut squash with an unusual and heavy pomegranate molasses sauce, served separate from a large portion of saffron infused rice. I enjoyed what I could eat but after the starter a lighter sauce would have worked better for me but the dish is the dish. Suffice to say a doggy bag came home with me. In these covid days, an empty box was brought to the table for me to use. While neither of us really deserved dessert, we ventured on. I opted for the Akbar Mashti [ice cream and pistachios]; my friend, Persian Poached Pear [pears, syrup and ice cream]. Double disaster...neither was available. What maybe could have saved the meal left us shaking our heads why we were even allowed to order unavailable fare. A complimentary item fell under too little, too late. The place normally gets top marks. On a 10 scale, 7 would have been fair. While the appetizer was excellent, there were issues with the wine, main courses and dessert. Kudos nevertheless for bringing such cuisine to a nice part of Burlington. I will happily return one day to see if my star rating can be raised a notch or two.