In Downtown New York, a Persian New Year Dinner With a Twist

Arriving at an artist’s loft in Chinatown on Thursday night, I was first greeted by an elevator operator who quietly ushered me in and up to the third floor. Entering a spacious room full of women in striking prints, avant-garde floral displays in every color, and…


Nasrin’s Kitchen Offers Persian Cuisine Just Steps From Bergdorf Goodman and Tiffany & Co.

Nasrin Rejali, who arrived from Iran by way of Istanbul in 2016, cooked for Eat Offbeat, a catering company that employs refugees. In 2020 she started Nasrin’s Kitchen, a catering company in Queens, and is now opening a restaurant to showcase her Persian cooking just steps from Bergdorf Goodman and Tiffany & Co…


New York Restaurants October 2023: Where To Go—Or Not

Iranian immigrant Nasrin Rejali collected a devoted following with her traditional Persian cooking at her catering and pop-up venues around the city before she opened her namesake restaurant off Fifth Avenue in June. Rejali’s high-ceilinged…


Meet Nasrin Rejali - Chef owner of Nasrin’s Kitchen in NYC

Growing up in Iran, Nasrin learned secret recipes and cooking skills from her grandmother. In 2014, she had to leave Iran with her three children. They first immigrated to Turkey, where they stayed for two years; in the fall of 2016, they made their journey to NYC and started over…


A new Persian restaurant in midtown that follows its chef’s pop-ups elsewhere in NYC.

Although I have yet to test this theory, I believe it would be easy to spend about one million dollars in under an hour across a short stretch of 57th Street. A luxury sports car from the Aston Martin at Park Avenue would do a lot of the heavy lifting as the vehicular equivalent of a cart full of turkeys on Supermarket Sweep…

Persian Cuisine, Ancient and Enduring, at Nasrin’s Kitchen

At dinner recently, an Iranian American friend taught me a term in Farsi: lebos polo khori, which means, essentially, “finest attire” but translates literally to “rice-eating clothes.” We should have been in black tie, considering how much rice was piled on the table in front of us at Nasrin’s Kitchen,




NASRIN’S KITCHEN: A Hidden Gem of Persian Delights in Midtown

Welcome to Nasrin’s Kitchen, a charming Persian restaurant nestled on the second floor of a Midtown building, overlooking the bustling streets of Manhattan.

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This New Persian Restaurant Is Tucked Away on the Second Floor of a Midtown Building

Tucked away on the second floor of a Midtown building, above a deli, is Nasrin’s Kitchen. Located at 35 W. 57th Street, near Sixth Avenue, an easy-to-miss, upstairs sign captured the attention of the handful of office workers who peeked inside on its first day, Tuesday, June 27…


Nasrin’s Kitchen Offers Persian Cuisine Just Steps From Bergdorf Goodman and Tiffany & Co.

Nasrin Rejali, who arrived from Iran by way of Istanbul in 2016, cooked for Eat Offbeat, a catering company that employs refugees. In 2020 she started Nasrin’s Kitchen, a catering company in Queens, and is now opening a restaurant to showcase her Persian cooking just steps from Bergdorf Goodman and Tiffany & Co.


Nasrin Rejali Is Serving Up Her Family Recipes One Takeout Box at a Time

When Iranian refugee Nasrin Rejali immigrated to New York via Turkey in 2016, she had already been cooking for most of her life — first at the knee of her grandmother (“No one makes fesenjan like my grandmother’s fesenjan”) and, later,