Metreon Farmer's Market - Monday Lunchtime - Persian Food

[lmarie]

This past Monday I wandered in to the Metreon farmer's market looking for lunch eats. The prepared food selections are EXTREMELY sparse on Mondays. (So - no Amber Indian food, no Tara ice cream, no Vietnamese bahn mi, no Singapore food, no African food, no Phat's BBQ, momos, or Bulgarian food, as have been reported in previous posts about this farmer's market.) Among the very few that were open (a "mediterranean" place, the cupcake vendor, the ever-present Afghan (I think) bolani/dips vendor, Juicy Lucey's and the wonderful empanadas vendor) there was a lovely woman selling Persian food. (I'm sorry that I did not read the name of the booth.) She offered two soups, chicken fesenjoon over rice, a mini-sandwich of beef tongue, pomegranite gelatine, and mini-carrot cakes that looked like mini-cupcakes. The soups were amazing, and she generously offered samples. One was yogurt-based, with other ingredients I am forgetting. But the one I chose was plum soup. This had well-cooked-down small yellow plums (still with pits!), bulgar, a few yellow split peas and kidney beans, and lots of green herbs. It was intriguingly sweet/sour, and served hot. It came with two pieces of flatbread, which were toasted on order. The soup was $6, the fesenjoon was $7, and a soup plus mini-sandwich combo was $8.

Bottom line: there is LOTS left to discover at this FM, as several of the original vendors (i.e., the organic dim sum, OctoberFeast, etc.) have left, and new ones added.....

[rworange]

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Island Earth Farmers Market
101 4th Street, San Francisco, CA