Edgware Road: London's Little Tehran

Every great food city has a street where one cuisine plants its flag. For Persian food in Britain, that street is Edgware Road — the long avenue running north from Marble Arch that Londoners have affectionately called Little Tehran for decades.

Iranians began settling around Edgware Road in significant numbers from the late 1970s, and they brought their kitchens with them. Persian grocers appeared, selling saffron, dried limes and barberries; bakeries began pulling fresh sangak and barbari bread from the ovens each morning; and the charcoal grills were lit.

Today the street is one of London’s great eating destinations. You can smell grilled kebab and fresh flatbread from Marble Arch station, buy pomegranate molasses and rosewater at midnight, and end the evening with faloodeh — the rose-water sorbet Persians have made for millennia.

Termeh sits at 137 Edgware Road, in the heart of it, moments from Marble Arch and Hyde Park. We’re open every day from noon to midnight — which matters, because Persian food culture is a late one: the best conversations happen over the last pot of tea.

If it’s your first visit to the street, here’s our honest advice: come hungry, order the koobideh and something you can’t pronounce, ask for extra bread, and share everything. That’s how the street is meant to be eaten.

Book a table with us — there’s a bright main hall on the ground floor and a quieter room upstairs — or explore the full menu first. Either way: khosh amadid. Welcome.