Chef Hoss Zare in San Francisco

This year, Zare will celebrate No-Rouz at Danville’s Mediterranean-inspired Albatross, consulting with executive chef Brian Bowen (Meadowood, Cavallo Point) on a four-course dinner March 19 and 20 that pays homage to traditional Persian new year dishes but offers new, elevated takes. Bowen is transforming noon-panir-sabzi, flat bread with feta and herbs, for example, into a whipped feta cannoli.