Cottonwood Heights • The lemonade is bright green from all the blended mint and it pops with real ginger. The olive appetizer, marinated in pomegranate syrup, zings. And the chicken stew is tart, sweet and silky.
The authentic Persian cuisine served at Sumac Café provides a lovely medley of flavors and textures, with dishes spiked with pistachios, flavored with saffron and sumac, stuffed with herbs, rubbed with spices.
Elham Sadegh moved from Iran six years ago. She opened the restaurant last December in a spot where she was running a coffee shop. She had been catering meals with her Persian dishes on the side, and “everybody told me, ‘We need this delicious food.