Band Pasta
Welcome to Band Pasta. This is the food blog of touring musician Danny Schwartz a.k.a. Danny Black. As I tour I like to explore great cuisine in each city and by each venue. Look for guest blog entries from my friends who are also on tour as they share their favorites. See you at the show and come hungry.
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So I haven’t been traveling much this summer. I have been playing plenty and with some new bands. Things continue swimmingly with Stripmall Ballads, we play at iota August 1st opening for Frazey Ford of the Be Good Tonyas. I also played my first 930 Club show last Saturday night with the Justin Trawick Group. It was a great success. Last week I also had the great privilege of playing all week with Robbie Schaefer at the Children’s Theater in the Woods at Wolf Trap. It was amazing and since I was in that area, I treated myself to one of my favorite restaurants. It’s a hidden jewel of Tyson’s Corner and great to stop at if you are going to a show at Wolf Trap, Jammin’ Java, or seeing a play at First Stage, a great small independent theater across route seven.
The restaurant is called Shamshiry and is located at 8607 Westwood Center Drive in Tyson’s. They specialize in Chelo Kebobs, which is the national dish of Iran. It’s different varieties of meat (my favorite is the Barg) served with saffron basmati rice that has been tossed in butter. Accompanied by grilled tomatos and onions. Somagh (Sumac) is often sprinkled on the rice. This is the main dish of the restaurant but far from their best. They also serve chicken and salmon versions of the Chelo Kabobs and a slew of delicious vegetarian rice dishes. My favorite the Baghali Polo is the basmati with saffron and dill and tossed with farva beans. It’s quite good.
I highly recommend eating there. I go at least every month or two for my fix. Hope you all are having an amazing summer.
Danny
