Kermanshah has a good range of restaurants concentrated around the main commercial streets and near the Taq-e Bostan park. The local cuisine is Kurdish-influenced, with kebabs (including the local variation with ground meat and herbs called kubideh) and stews being the staples. Rice cooked with herbs — ghormeh sabzi, loobia polo, reshteh polo — appears on almost every menu.
The city is particularly known for its pastries and sweets: sohan (a sticky almond brittle), kolooche (walnut cookies), and nan-e berenji (rice flour sweets) are sold in shops throughout the bazaar and make good gifts to take away. Pizza places are surprisingly popular — you will find them on almost every major street, reflecting a general trend in Iranian cities. For traditional food, the restaurants along the road leading to Taq-e Bostan are reliable and busy with locals at lunchtime.