Location: 9325 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill
Website: https://barehsefid.net/

I was pretty excited to check out Bareh Sefid after seeing it on Suresh Doss’ great show, Locals Welcome.  They specialize in big platters of various braised lamb parts.  I feel like lamb is seriously underappreciated, so yeah, I’m all over that.

Their menu consists entirely of lamb, and if you want to try it all, you’ve gotta go with the Darbari plate: “2 Sides Lamb Head Meat, 1 Tongue, 2 Eyes, 3 Lamb Trotters, 1 Brain, 2 Bowls Of Lamb Broth, With Full Service: Pickled, Home Made Bread, Lime.”

The lamb is all seriously well prepared and unctuously tender.  The head and tongue are probably the most straightforward — you’d never know that they’re off cuts just by tasting them.  The eyes and trotter both have a similarly squishy texture, and are also quite tasty, if a bit one-note soft.  The brain is the most interesting of the bunch, with a firm texture and a slightly liver-esque mineraly flavour.

It’s all nicely spiced, but mostly, the preparation ensures that the lamb flavour is front and centre.  The meal comes with a side of lime wedges and zippy pickle relish, with the relish, in particular, doing a great job of cutting through the richness of the lamb.

It’s so much lamb.  The platter consists entirely of fatty/collagen-rich lamb along with a couple of types of flatbread to eat it with, and while I was in lamb heaven for the first few bites, eventually, I kinda wanted some other flavours?  I like lamb a whole lot, but — for me, at least — this might have been too much of a good thing.