Updated November 2026 30 Tir remains downtown Tehran’s best-known street-food destination; we have refreshed the details and added the museums and places of worship you can combine with a visit.
30 Tir Street is Tehran’s food avenue: a short, cobbled street in the old heart of the city, close to the National Museum of Iran, where food stalls, carts and long-established snack bars serve everything from kebabs and falafel to ash, juices and sweets. On a warm evening it is one of the liveliest places in town, full of families, students and couples eating as they stroll, and it is the easiest introduction there is to Tehran street food.
The street, known in Persian as Si-e Tir, was paved and redeveloped by Tehran Municipality as a pedestrian-friendly space with food vendors, and it has become a fixture on the city’s evening map. Most stalls set up in the late afternoon, and the atmosphere is at its best after dark, particularly at weekends and in the warmer months. Come hungry and graze rather than sitting down for one meal.
The choice is wide and changes with the seasons. Expect grilled skewers of lamb, beef and chicken; falafel wrapped in bread with sauce; sambuseh, the Iranian take on samosas; steaming bowls of ash reshteh, the thick noodle, herb and bean soup; corn on the cob and boiled beetroot in winter; and fresh pomegranate juice, saffron ice cream and syrupy zoolbia and bamieh for dessert. Prices are generally lower than in sit-down restaurants, and portions at the food stalls are filling.
Away from the stalls, 30 Tir and the streets around it are home to old-school sandwich and snack shops that have been feeding downtown Tehran for decades, serving the kind of classic Iranian takeaway food, from kalbas sandwiches to olivieh, that has hardly changed since the 1960s. The most famous address is Gol-e Rezaieh, a historic café long associated with writers and artists; read our guide to Gol-e Rezaieh Café before you go. A few Armenian-run grocery shops in the area also stock imported foods that are hard to find elsewhere in Tehran.
What makes 30 Tir special is the setting. Within a few minutes’ walk you will find the National Museum of Iran, the Abgineh glass and ceramics museum, St Peter’s Church, the Armenian church of St Mary, the Haim Synagogue and a Zoroastrian fire temple, a reminder of the many communities that have lived side by side in this part of Tehran. It is easy to spend the afternoon in a museum and stay on for dinner. The Moghadam House Museum and Vartan House are close by too.
The nearest metro stations are Imam Khomeini, on Lines 1 and 2, and Hassan Abad, on Line 2, each a short walk away. Traffic in the area is heavy in the evening, so the metro is usually quicker than a taxi. Bring cash or a bank card (card machines are standard even at small stalls), go with an appetite, and see our guide to restaurant prices in Tehran for a sense of costs.
