Takht-e Tavoos

I’ve been here twice, and both times absolutely loved my meal. It’s not an extensive menu but that’s when you know it’s going to be good. The breakfast comes with a Persian Chai tea or coffee if you prefer. The portion is just right in my opinion and you definitely leave feeling satisfied and happy. If you ever have to wait, trust me, it’s worth it.

This is a very cozy restaurant with cool Persian decorations. Food is great and tastes like authentic Iranian food. Staff are nice and prompt. Could not ask for better even in Iran

Had brunch here with my good Persian friend, she had the egg breakfast and had the lamb’s head soup. Both were delicious. With a full pot of tea, we had a great time – the décor is cool, the vibe is relaxed. Will be back!

If u haven’t, u MUSTbeautiful humble & cozy décor, very welcoming., amazing food their famous for their Dizzy, but plenty other delicious entrée to devour, I had paneer boroshteh, and took halim home. I heard there are 3 sister restaurant so we’re already planning our trip back for pomegranate restaurant

It’s impossible to bring into words my appreciation to the owner of this place which I don’t know who He/​She is but I do know they own difference other restaurant like Shahrzad as well in Toronto!
In both places I ordered several items and tried all of them. Every single item is amazing me! You can hardly see such an extensive quality among all foods in the menu in other places.
It would be great if I get a chance to see the owner and chef and pass my blessings in person. Traveling here from warm Florida and dealing with this cold weather; definitely such warm and cozy place s like Takht Tavoos or Shahrzad are great things to have in Toronto.
I wish you all the best with your business and your restaurants are always additional reason for me to visit Toronto again!

Great brunch and also crazy busy on Sundays!
Stuff is great and helpful. Love it!
Went there few times and prefer going a bit earlier before gets crazy.

Awesome cozy place, amazing tasty food and especially the Kalleh Pacheh … You can’t go wrong with it.
Staff are amazing and we always do some customization to the order by removing and adding items and they always try their best to do it.

If you are looking for a break from traditional breakfast, this is your place.
I like their décor and all the traditional art, but the seating is kinda cramped, if you are lukcy you may get to sit on the takht and have an even more traditional experience.
Now the food here is creative to say the least, some people might even find it weird.
I love eggs and i love dates, so i had the eggs date breakfast, and I was left wondering why has nobody thought of this before? SOOO GOOOD! it goes perfectly together, and there some cheese on the side to balance the overpowering sweetness of dates (I drool as i write).
My friend got a dizi, there is a certain way to eat it and the server walks you through it. It is interesting to it, tasty, but extremely heavy! The guy beside our table warned us that this is sleep inducing, and he wasn’t wrong, ran for a coffee right after that.
Don’t miss out on the tea they serve, very flavourful and authentic persian tea, could use some of that to get the food settled down.
Service: our server was nice, but there is only two of them and the place is very busy on weekends, need more servers.
Have a good persian morning.

OMG where do I start! My first Persian experience!!! It was absolutely divine!
Lot of the items were hard to pronounce and I made notes on my phone before I went so I knew what I needed to order. The gentleman working there was calm, graceful, and so nice to even teach me how to pronounce them!
First off, for this much labor and love that goes into making this food, it should cost more. If dizi sangi was served in NYC, it would probably go for at least $ 28.
The kashk-​e badenjaan ($ 7.95), sautéed and mashed eggplant w/​Persian whey, walnuts, caramelized onion was like eating silky panties drizzled with liquid gold. The flatbread was so fresh and good I wanted to cry sesame seeds. And it came warm inside a basket covered in Persian cloth napkin with tassels on them!!! Tassels!!! Oh, c’mon!!! Ahhhhhhhh (For those of you that never ate at Byblos on Duncan St, their $ 11 organic house lebneh also comes with barbari bread which is to DIEEEE for, just sayin)
My friend ordered the kalleh pacheh ($ 15.95), soup made with sheep’s head and hooves with flatbread. Because, c’mon folks. Where and when are you ever gonna have chance to try sheep’s face and feet??? He ate that soup up like his life depended on it.
Of course, I had to order the dizi sangi ($ 14.50) and omg, it’s a HUGE portion! And it comes with pickled puréed vegetables, yogurt, and more flatbread. I’m glad I didn’t order the yogurt app because I got to taste some with this dish and it was heavenly. Thick, luscious, and tangy, you’ll be saying Greek what? Chobani, Oikos who? The stewed lamb, chickpeas, and potato is strained (broth served separately) and it comes in a beautiful mortar and you take the pestle and smoosh everything together to spread it onto the flatbread. I thought the interactiveness of this dish alone was worth ordering. After couple of times of pestling, I just ate the chunks of meat straight out of the mortar. Just shoved everything into my mouth. Mmm! Meaty goodness!!!
The lovely Persian chai tea, I believe came with our meal. The tea kettle was authentic, Persian, and hand painted. Ugh, can this get any better!!!
They had 2 Persian rugged flat beds (no cushions unfortunately) that you can sit on instead of a table, the entire experience was amazing and so memorable. And it only costed us $ 46 bones.
If you can get your butt over here, you must at once. It’s one of those flavors that’ll stay with you for a life time.

Really lovely brunch here, as everyone has mentioned.
Don’t be fooled by the line up, as it generally moves quickly. The hostess told us 45 minutes but we only waited 10!
Worth the awkward location to have some unique brunch foods. I tried the tomato/​onion dish with eggs, served with the Persian style bread and some marinated olives. Free coffee or tea to go with your meal. There is a heavier lamb stew dish which seemed popular with the men.
Reasonable prices too, my dish was $ 11 including the coffee, can’t go wrong!

My favourite restaurant in Toronto. The tea has the perfect taste and tastes just like the one my grandma makes back home.
The breakfast is also FULL of flavour. Love everything on this menu.
This chain is just amazing in general.
Try to go on weekdays so you can sit on the takht… But the weekend has more options on their menu.
I don’t even know how to phrase this review properly because thinking of this restaurant is making me so excited and hungry, I can’t focus.

Yes, it’s that good.
Top-​10 in 2013 by Globe & Mail critic Christopher Nuttall-Smith…the legacy lasts.

Omg. Omg. Omg. BEST BRUNCH EVARRRR.
Ok so now that I got that off my chest, time for the deets. Husband I went for brunch/​lunch on a Saturday around 1pm. We had to wait about 15 – 20 minutes for a table. The place was PACKED. The décor was beautiful — chandeliers, Persian poetry lining the wall, and lots of blue, turquoise and topaz all around.
Service was a little slow, but there were only three girls serving (what it seemed like) 100 people, so they get a pass. They were super nice and had a smile throughout each one of our conversations.
The food of choice for me was Dizi Sangi. It was incredibly delicious! It was perfect for a breezy fall day. The broth warms your soul. The flatbread is fluffy and a perfect compliment to the meat/​potato/​bean purée. The condiments are fantastic even with the bread on its own.
My husband had the egg + tomato braised sausage and absolutely loved it as well.
We got a pot of Persian tea — SO WORTH IT!
Cannot wait to go again! And I’m bringing all my favorite people in the world because it’s just that awesome.

We went to this place twice in 2 days. That’s how good it was. Traditional Persian breakfast with a little bit western twist. Highly recommend it. We almost ordered everything on the menu.

I love myself a good brunch place but I was tired of the same ordeal for breakfast. This place definitely is not your standard eggs and bacon type place. Tavoos is a small Persian restaurant on college, past Dufferin. I went on Sunday morning right when it opened, and I am glad I did not sleep in. The place gets crowded very quickly.
I got the Guisavah, which has two sunny side up eggs with dates and walnuts. The combination was superb. It is so simple yet so good! I love sweet and savoury. I found that the bread that was served was not warm. If you ask for more bread, they give a basket of warm bread and that made all the difference! It was a satisfying and filling brunch that was reasonably priced. The food included either persian chai tea or coffee. And there are refills!
If you love brunch, you gotta check out this place!

Beautifully decorated restaurant (I’m a turquoise fan). The food was delicious, can’t order the wrong dish. Presentation/​plating was elegant, and you can tell that attention to detail is a key value in their concept.
That lamb stew dish is heavy, but delicious (can probably be shared by two people).

We love to eat food from around the world, and have tried so many things we had started to itch for something new — we wanted new flavours, new textures. Tavoos did not disappoint. In fact we enjoyed our lunch there so much, we returned the next day to try their breakfasts.
ATMOSPHERE:
Tavoos is what you would expect of a breakfast/​lunch spot. Nothing fancy, but well laid out with simple wooden tables for most patrons and lots of sunlight pouring through the south facing windows. A unique feature is two areas set aside for those who wish to sit on a Persian rug-​covered floor with cushions scattered about. We sat at a regular table on our first visit, but took advantage of this cozy arrangement the next time we visited. Finally, the staff are very friendly, taking time to explain — when asked — the complexities of the many unique dishes on offer. They tend not to have a lot of waiters on staff, so service may slow down if there’s a rush of people coming in.
FOOD
Not surprisingly, the menu focuses on both breakfast dishes (mostly involving delicious sunny side up eggs as a theme) as well as unique lunch offerings. On our first visit we arrived in the early afternoon so chose dishes from the lunch portion of the menu.
Dizi Sangi — a stew of lamb shank and rib with chick peas, white beans, potato, onion and spices. The broth is separated and served in a soup bowl, meant to be sipped or eaten by soaking bread in the broth. The remainder of the ingredients arrive in a tall clay container (the Dizi) accompanied by a metal mallet. You use the mallet to pound the meat and beans into a coarse purée at your table. We threw in lots of the tarragon that was served in the side, then spooned it onto bread and topped it with pickled vegetables and yoghurt. A miraculous combination of flavors! And SO filling!
Kalleh Pacheh — a Persian lamb head and hooves stew. The hooves are rendered into the stew, providing a thickness to the soup that is almost creamy. Delicious tender cheek meat, and a whole tongue with a fascinating melt in your mouth texture. Served with pickled garlic and bread. Fresh lemon juice really brightens the dish up. Truly magnificent and utterly unique!
Guisavah — two sunnyside up eggs, sautéed in butter with chopped dates, walnuts, and black nigella seeds (a flowering plant, the black seeds taste like toasted onion), served with creamy feta, and ardeh shireh (sweet tahini). Lots of parsley on the side. Our dinner the previous night was so good we had to come back for breakfast. We could not imagine dates and walnuts with eggs, but with the tahini, parsley and salty feta it made for a decadent and extraordinarily unique breakfast!
Hallumi Eggs — 2 sunnyside up eggs sautéed in butter, cooked over fresh halloumi cheese fried crisp with a lovely garlicky flavor (halloumi is a semi-​hard, unripened brined cheese made from a mixture of goat’s and sheep’s milk). Olives marinated in pomegranate molasses and walnut paste and smoked salmon are served on the side, along with a bowl with stewed tomatoes and veggies. On the side is creamy feta cheese and lots of parsley! The way the flavours combined provided a complex and melodious dance of tastes. Truly something special and unique!

Takht-​e Tavoos was my first foray into Persian cuisine. I’ve become a fan ever since!
With that said, Tavoos’ focus is on Persian breakfast including eggs, salads and stews. For those looking for Persian dinner fare, including rice and kabobs, I would suggest looking at their sister restaurants Sheherzade and Pomegranate.
Tavoos is a cute little restaurant located at College and Dufferin in the Brockton Village area. The interior is nicely decorated with ceramic vases, paintings and ceramic tile giving the restaurant an intimate feel.
The Kashk-​e Badenjaan is a must try. It’s a sauteed eggplant dish mixed with mint, whey and caramelized onion. Think baba ganoush on steroids. It might be my favorite dip ever and Tavoos does it great. For $ 7.95, it’s a good sized dish and a great appetizer.
We also ordered the Maast o Khiar which is a yogurt dish consisting of cucumbers, walnuts, raisins, mint and rose petals. It’s a cool, palate-​cleansing dish that is refreshing on a hot day, You must be a fan of yogurt to enjoy the dish though, but it does go nicely with the Barbari bread.
Finally for our main, we shared the Dizi Sangi which was a lamb stew cooked with chickpeas, white beans, potato, onion and tomatoes. This is the a truly unique dish consisting of two parts: strained broth and stew. The interesting part is that the dish comes with a mortar
and pestle used to purée the stew so that it can be served on the flatbread. It’s actually a lot of work to eat the dish, but it’s worthwhile, as the product is complex and flavorful. It’s also kind of fun and makes the meal experience more memorable.
Overall, Tavoos is an excellent Persian restaurant with some unique menu items I have never seen before. This speaks volumes about its authenticity. I also like how they focus on Persian breakfast foods in particular. I am definitely planning to return for another meal.

Are you Paarrsssiaeen?! Wow. What a gem. Love the décor. Fun place to be. West college west west looks a lot further east when you’re in the joint. Seemed authentic. Lots of cool flavours and textures to be tried. They have a fairly standard egg type dish that was very well done. Killer bread, but be careful not to fill up on it. The dessert was nutty good (and contained nuts, as does most of the food, so nut allergies beware!)

This place is great! The food is well priced and very authentic. I’ve been here twice for brunch and both meals were great experiences.
The names of the dishes are hard to remember, but I would recommend the eggplant starter dish if you want an appetizer.
My girlfriend likes tomatoes so she is into their tomato dish. Their olives and cheeses are tasty and fresh.
I would recommend to anybody who can appreciate good Persian food.