
Chapter I
Named for the highest peaks
of the Zagros.
Dena is the tallest massif of Iran's Zagros mountains — forty kilometres of snow-capped ridgeline above the plains of the south-west. Up there, hospitality is older than restaurants: guests fed first, plates filled twice, nobody counting.
That's the standard we cook to in Ealing. Kebabs over charcoal the way they should be. Rice steamed with saffron and served in generous heaps. And the slow khoresht — ghormeh sabzi, gheymeh, fesenjan — that need hours, not minutes.
Dena is a restaurant and a bar. Come for a full Persian dinner, a mazeh platter and a drink, live music on the right nights, or just the football with something off the grill.







