Cooked by hand, for a date
No shelf, no basket and no delivery slot. You tell us when and how many; we tell you what is possible and what it costs; then it gets cooked for your day. Here is the whole of it.
Four things that are true of everything
Whatever you order and whatever it is for, these do not change.
Everything is cooked for a date
Nothing sits on a shelf waiting to be bought. You give us the day; we cook for the day. That is why there is no basket on this site and no stock counter — there is nothing to be in stock.
By hand, at the speed it takes
Dolma is rolled one leaf at a time and lavash is rolled one sheet at a time, because there is no other way to do either. What that costs is time, which is why we ask for the date early rather than late.
The quantity is yours, not ours
A plate, a pot, a table, a room. Tell us how many people are eating and we will tell you what that looks like — it is a more useful question than which size you would like.
You will know the price before you agree to anything
We write back with what we can make and what it costs. Nothing is confirmed until you have read that and said yes.
Named after the fruit
Nar is the Azerbaijani word for pomegranate. It is not a decoration there and it is not a garnish — it is a season. The fruit comes in through October and November, it goes into everything from a salad to the sauce that ends up on fish, and in Goychay, where the ground suits it better than anywhere else, there has been a festival for it every autumn since 2006.
In 2020 UNESCO put Azerbaijan’s pomegranate festivity and culture on the same list that dolma and thin bread are on. A fruit with its own entry in the cultural heritage of a country is a fair thing to name a kitchen after.
- Thin bread, incl. lavash
- UNESCO list, 2016
- Dolma, making and sharing
- UNESCO list, 2017
- Pomegranate festivity and culture
- UNESCO list, 2020
From a message to a day in the book
Three steps, and the first is the only one that needs anything from you.
- 01Send us the date
The day you need it, roughly how many people, and what the occasion is if there is one. A few lines is plenty — the form, an email or a message on the number all reach the same kitchen.
- 02We write back
What we can make for that date, what it will come to, and how much notice it needs. If the date is too tight for what you have asked for we will say so and suggest what is possible instead.
- 03It gets cooked for your day
Once you have said yes, it is in the book. How it reaches you — collected or brought to you — is settled in the same conversation, because it depends on where you are and what it is.
- The date, and whether it can move.
- Roughly how many people are eating.
- What it is for — a birthday, a wake, a Novruz table, an office.
- Anything the room cannot eat.
- Where you are, so we can talk about getting it to you.
None of it is compulsory. It is simply the difference between one reply and four.