About Haftkhan Restaurant
Haftkhan Restaurant is one of Shiraz's most-recommended dining destinations — a multi-level facility on Quds Square with six floors of different dining concepts under one roof. The restaurant has been operating since the 2000s and is the city's largest fine-dining destination by capacity, with each floor offering a different cuisine and dining format.
The most-recommended floors are the Persian Traditional (third floor — the kitchen serves the city's reference Tahchin, Ghalieh Mahi (the Shirazi-style fish-and-tamarind stew using Persian Gulf seafood), and Shirazi Dempakht (the slow-cooked rice-and-bean dish with lamb)), and the Persian Modern (fourth floor — Modern Iranian fusion with international plate presentation). The Italian (second floor), Japanese (first floor) and café-bar (top floor) cater to different visitor preferences.
The signature dishes are unambiguously Shirazi. Tahchin ($24) — the saffron-yogurt-and-rice cake layered with chicken and barberries, baked into a crispy-edged round and sliced like a torte. Ghalieh Mahi ($28) — the Persian Gulf fish stew with tamarind, fenugreek, garlic, coriander, and chili. Shirazi Dempakht ($22) — the slow-cooked rice-and-bean dish with lamb shoulder, fava beans, dill, and the Shiraz-specific spice blend.
Live Persian classical music is performed in the third-floor Traditional dining hall on weekend evenings. The room is built in formal-fine-dining style with separate dining-floor identities — the third floor in vibrant Persian mosaic, the fourth floor in modern minimalist, the Italian floor in tuscan-warm. Reservations matter for weekend evenings; the third-floor traditional booths book a week ahead.
Best Occasion Fit
Birthdays for groups of four to twelve — the multi-floor format means the group can choose the cuisine that suits them, and the staff will arrange a small song with notice. As a first date the third-floor Persian-traditional setting is romantic. For impressing visiting clients with a single Shiraz dinner that touches all the city's regional signatures (Tahchin, Ghalieh Mahi, Dempakht), this is the answer.
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