Persian food

Never eaten Persian food before but it was delicious.  Just down the road from our hotel in Newcastle, West Jesmond. Mainly stews or grills.
I had lamb with egg plant with saffron rice. The lamb was very tender.  Prices were very reasonable as well.
After we had a mixed dessert it was called a Trio of something and was served on a long platter. One end had a yoghurt base with preserved figs, then three scoops of different flavoured home made ice cream and some baklava not sure of that spelling,

After we had finished and the bill paid, the owner said he would bring over one of the other desserts for us to try. It was rice noodles in rose water, served with a couple of slices of lemon. We asked what we did with the lemon and he said to squeeze a little over it. I think we all had some first without the lemon and it tasted okay. I am not that fond of lemon but, when in Rome etc so I squeezed and tasted. OMG, the difference it made was incredible couldnt taste the lemon but it really changed it. It was so refreshing.

Such a nice end to our Newcastle part of the trip.
A quick change of plans for today, we picked a car yesterday and were heading south but now we are heading back into Scotland to Glascow.