Azizam
Persian restaurant · Silver Lake ·
Homestyle Persian food with mazeh plates, meatballs, and desserts
Homestyle Persian food with mazeh plates, meatballs, and desserts
"Azizam is a Persian daytime cafe with all the ingredients for a leisurely, borderline therapeutic lunch. There’s tons of dangling plants, big windows pouring in light, and a shaded patio where you can watch traffic zoom down Sunset over a spread of homey dishes: warm barbari, fluffy dampokhtak with a juicy chicken leg on top, and grapefruit-sized kofteh tabrizi with walnuts and dried barberries. Dishes are on the smaller side so we like coming here with a friend or two to order as much as possible, including the Persian Mille-Feuille with layers of soft cream. That dessert alone will turn your afternoon around." - sylvio martins, brant cox, cathy park
"This all-day cafe in Silver Lake is an easy hang in every way. Azizam is a laidback counter-service spot with lots of natural light, soft rock music echoing through its outdoor patio, and a menu full of homey, belly-warming Persian dishes that mostly float under $15. Your crew can stretch their legs on the breezy patio, and in minutes, delicious things start to arrive, like juicy turmeric-braised chicken legs on fluffy dampokhtak and grapefruit-sized kofteh tabrizi bobbing in a bowl of tomato-y broth." - brant cox, sylvio martins, garrett snyder
"The sun is shining, you’re rereading your favorite book, and a barbari-filled mazeh platter just hit the table. That’s a typical scene at Azizam, a counter-service Persian cafe in Silver Lake where quick solo meals can easily drift into full afternoon affairs. Our advice: lean into it. Snag a second glass of wine or Persian craft beer, order the kuku sandwich stuffed with a fluffy vegetable frittata, and put your phone face-down. The five-page email thread can wait." - brant cox
"Azizam is a Persian daytime cafe with all the ingredients for a leisurely, borderline therapeutic lunch. There’s tons of dangling plants, big windows pouring in light, and a shaded patio where you can watch traffic zoom down Sunset over a spread of homey dishes: warm barbari, fluffy dampokhtak with a juicy chicken leg on top, and grapefruit-sized kofteh tabrizi with walnuts and dried barberries. Dishes are on the smaller side so we like coming here with a friend or two to order as much as possible, including the Persian Mille-Feuille with layers of soft cream." - sylvio martins, brant cox
"A bright, nostalgia-forward Silver Lake cafe that grew from pop-ups and leans into comforting, unpretentious Iranian fare: the space features pastel branding and Farsi children’s books, house-pickled torshi, eye-catching kofteh tabrizi stuffed with dried stone fruit and walnuts, and intentionally minimal sandwiches such as zaban (tongue) and kuku (herb frittata) served on barbari flatbread—a place that draws both diaspora diners seeking familiar flavors and curious non-Iranians." - Sara Akhavan