A Persian in London

After a morning of shopping at Whiteleys, London’s first departmental store, I walked along Westbourne Grove in Bayswater in search of a good and hearty lunch. Five minutes from Whiteleys, I saw the words “Halal Cuisine” plastered on a shiny glass door that opens to the welcoming warmth and the smell of baking bread (because of the traditional clay oven for baking bread right at the entrance) that envelopes a cosy Persian interior filled to the brim with people from different cultures and ethnicities. This restaurant is called Alounak, and it serves the finest Persian cuisine.

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