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It’s easiest to think of a visit to Kitchen 55 as going to someone’s home for dinner, rather than a restaurant. Most of the staff are family.

There are just two dishes available on weekdays and four on Saturdays. Mirza ghasemi, the popular breakfast in northern Iran, is a tangle of soft, smoky eggplant and whisked egg to be scooped up with lavash. Beef meatballs are bathed in a sauce rich with herbs, walnut and pomegranate.

The white-bean stew baghali ghatogh is strewn with dill and served with a whole boiled egg. And katte rice is cooked until the bottom crisps to form the golden crust known as tahdig, then flipped to serve. Take home impossibly buttery shirini kishmishi (sultana cookies) and rosewater saffron rice pudding for a taste of Iran via Templestowe in the morning.