Attari Grill Westwood - Anyone Been?

[keepon]

Walked past the famous Attari Sandwich on Westwood and saw that they just open a small, 6 tables indoor restaurant right next to the outdoor eating area of the Sandwich Shop. Anyone been? Menu seems like typical Persian joint with Kabob, Stew etc.

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Attari Sandwich Shop
1388 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

[silverlainy]

I noticed this old post and thought I'd respond since I visited recently..all of the responses appear to be referring to the sandwich shop and not the sit down restaurant. I thought the restaurant was good - cheaper than Shaherzad but similar in portion size. We tried one stew that was really tasty, but since there's no online menu i cant remember what it was called. The owners were incredibly nice. We ended up chatting with a Persian woman who was at the table next to us with her mom and she recommended their crispy rice with stew.

[kevin]

yeah, tahdig.

i've only been to the sandwich shoppe portion of the endeavor.

[hhewitt]

I posted asking about this back in April, and got no replies. I'm still curious (if not curious enough to go).

[waterisgood]

Food wise - excellent.

Ambience - I love sitting on the patio on a nice suny day or evening, although the patio is very uneven, slanting down. And the indoor area is always stuffy when it's hot - they might not have A/C.

For a cafe style place, the koobideh is really good. And I think they have the best ASH (pronounced OSH) soup of all the Persian restaurants.

My favorite sandwiches are the Kuku (it's like a veggie patty but Persian style and very good with nice spices) and the Chicken Cotlet sandwiches, but don't expect the Cotlet to be a breaded piece of chicken like a cutlet. It's not really breaded, more like ground chicken I think? Anyway, both are very good, but I get it without the mayo. My husband loves the tongue sandwich.

On fridays, they have a really good Persian dish that you cannot find in a lot of Persian restaurants in LA - ab ghoost. It's like a lamb stew with sabzi (greens, radish, onion) and bread that you dip in the lamb stew juice. REALLY tasty. but they run out early a lot on Fridays. So I don't ever try to get it after lunch there.

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Attari Sandwich Shop
1388 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

[kevin]

yeah, attari is pretty darn good, I like the cutlet sandwiches and sometimes the sosses (hot dog) sandwiches, yeah, without mayo, and then just give the sandwiches a little squirt of srirachi for that kick.

[Alex250]

I was there just this weekend for lunch. The 4 of us split 2 soups (OSH) - a vegetarian soup that was excellent; 2 vegetarian sandwiches - they were good, but not as good as the soup; and we had one lamb dish/sandwich. It came with flat bread, onions, tomato (on the side) and it was delicious. Overall, a really great and fun experience. Sandwiches are big enough for two people.

[J.L.]

Are you referring to Attari Sandwich Shop, or the newly-opened Attari Grill next door? Cuz I go to the Sandwich Shop regularly. I thought the original thread was referring to the new place next door, and that's the joint I haven't yet tried.

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Attari Sandwich Shop
1388 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

[J.L.]

It's called Attari Grill. Haven't yet tried it.

[kevin]

I'm presuming they just expanded their kabab menu. If I'm not mistaken, they already had some kababs on their sandwich menu, or maybe it was a Friday or Saturday thing, or maybe the "ab goosht" is a special.