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Voice-Tribune/LHB: Shiraz settles in at Holiday Manor

by Robin Garr » Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:50 pm

<I>Sorry about the delay in posting. This ran in The Voice before Christmas but we slipped up and didn't post it on LouisvilleHotBytes.com.</i>

<table border="0" align="left" width="260"><tr><td><img src="http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/shiraz07.jpg" border="1" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td>Ramin and Cheryl Akrami at Shiraz Mediterranean Grill in Holiday Manor. Photo by Robin Garr.</td></tr></table>Shiraz settles in at Holiday Manor
(<b>Shiraz Mediterranean Grill, <i>Voice-Tribune</i>, Dec. 13, 2007</b>)

If you love a good success story, consider <b>Shiraz Mediterranean Grill</b>. It would be hard to find another modest restaurant in Louisville that started so small and grew so fast.

It seems much longer than just a year and a half since Ramin Akrami opened the first Shiraz, a tiny, four-table eatery almost hidden in a row of frame huts on lower Brownsboro Road. It quickly outgrew those quarters, and within six months Akrami moved to more spacious modern facilities in the new Clifton Lofts complex on Frankfort Avenue. Now Shiraz has come to the East End, with a shiny new branch in Holiday Manor Walk, an expansion that Akrami hopes will be a link in a growing chain.

Shiraz features the cuisine of Persia, from where Akrami and his parents migrated in the 1970s after the Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution in their native Iran. His father became famous among Louisville's sizable Iranian community as a high-quality caterer; now Ramin joins a crowd of other Iranians in Louisville's restaurant business who are making this aromatic, subtle Southwestern Asian cuisine almost as familiar as pizza or sweet-and-sour chicken.

The new Holiday Manor Shiraz imparts a new look to the space that had previously housed a Dooley's Bagel and a chain pizzeria. Bold walls of tomatoes, saffron and sky blue and an oversize Persian carpet contribute to a warm atmosphere, and a stone wall behind the sleek aluminum counter frames a large charcoal grill. At the back of the room, a private nook is attractively decorated, with a striking, pool-table-size art-glass lighting fixture overhead that Akrami built into an old pizza oven vent hood.

<b>Shiraz Mediterranean Grill</b>
Holiday Manor, Suite No. 1
426-9954
http://www.shirazmg.com
(Another location: 2011 Frankfort Ave., 891-8854.)

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