There is a particular kind of warmth that only comes from food made without urgency. Food that takes its time. Food that remembers. Persian cooking is like that—patient, generous, deeply emotional. It is a cuisine shaped by herbs and fire, by long afternoons and even longer conversations, by the quiet understanding that love shows itself best at the table.
At Nooshe Jan, that feeling is immediate.
Hidden within Fari & Ali’s Kitchen in Plaza Damansara, this weekend-only dinner service does not try to impress with spectacle or reinvention. Instead, it offers something far rarer: sincerity. The kind that feels like being invited into someone’s home and told, gently, to eat more.
For Leily Amini, alongside her daughter Sharifah Samira and niece Sharifah Athirah, Nooshe Jan is not a restaurant in the traditional sense. None of them have worked professionally in one before. What they have, instead, is memory—of family tables, inherited recipes, and the unspoken rhythm of Persian hospitality. The name Nooshe Jan, meaning “nourish your soul”, is not poetic flourish; it is instruction.
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The menu is intentionally small, built for sharing and conversation. It begins, as many Persian meals do, with a table slowly filling. The Mezze Platter (RM68) arrives generous and unguarded: caramelised onion hummus, smoky mirza ghasemi, deeply comforting kashk-e bademjan, cooling mast-o-khiar, and briny zeytoon parvarde. Each dish is distinct, yet together they form something familiar—like the opening notes of a song you already know.’
Then come the dishes that anchor the meal. Khoreshte Ghorme Sabzi (RM58)—often described as the heart of Persian home cooking—is dark, fragrant, and deeply reassuring. Herbs, kidney beans, dried lime, and tender lamb are cooked until they no longer feel separate, but inseparable. Zereshk Polo ba Morgh (RM40) brings contrast and comfort in equal measure: tender chicken in a rich tomato-saffron sauce, lifted by honey-caramelised barberries, a dish many Persians would recognise instantly from their own kitchens. Kabab Chenjeh (RM58) keeps things simple—marinated beef grilled over open flame, served with bread and blistered tomatoes, allowing technique and quality to speak quietly for themselves.
Dessert feels like an echo of something personal. The Pistachio Dream (RM26) layers pistachio sponge with pistachio whipped cream and crushed nuts, indulgent yet restrained. And then there is Noon Khamei (RM15)—delicate cream puffs filled with smooth classic and dark chocolate cream. A specialty of Fari & Ali, finishing the meal with these feels symbolic. A return to the beginning where it all started.
In Persian culture, the dining table is sacred. It is where time softens, where stories unfold between bites, where laughter arrives unannounced and stays longer than planned. At Nooshe Jan, that philosophy is not explained—it is felt.
And may Nooshe Jan truly nourish your soul.
Opens Thursday to Saturday, 6.30pm to 9pm. Address: Nooshe Jan at Fari & Ali’s Kitchen, 65G, Jalan Medan Setia 1, Plaza Damansara
Reservation is required at 011-2408 9838.
