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| - Came for workday lunch with my father with a special Work Perk deal for a $15 3 course meal. The restaurant was completely empty besides one other table.
The meal started off beautifully. We ordered a pot of MINT TEA which was poured artfully and served in beautiful little glasses. It was sweet and delicious. Highly reccomend!
For apps, he had MAFTOUL CIGARS which were flaky and tasty. I had the HARIRA SOUP, hearty and savoury with a nice kick. Awesome.
For the main, my father had the MANGO SALMON. He liked it.
I had the STEAK BAGUETTE which was kind of a fail; what a shame. It was very well done--to me, inedible. I sent it back (I have never sent food back) and asked for it to be done medium. Unfortunately the second steak I received had barely a trace of pink in it; it was the dark side of medium-well. Couldn't imagine sending it back again, so I dug in. I found it to be tasty but tough, maybe because it was not cooked to my liking. The toughness of the meat and the fact that it was served open-face on very dense bread made it very difficult to cut and consume. I struggled a bit with a few methods (dad found this entertaining; I did not). When I eventually got it into my mouth, it was actually really tasty!
Reccomendations for the kitchen: cut the steak into thin slices. Quicker to cook, easier to eat on an open face sandwhich. Just makes sense. Oh, and learn how to cook a steak you guys were not even CLOSE! http://www.colinmcnulty.com/blog/images/cook-a-steak-blue-rare-medium-welldone.jpg
We finished with Morroccan cookies. What appeared to be a selection of different cookies was actually three of the exact same--sort of like shortbread-- except in different shapes and cooking times (the brown one was just an overdone version of the white one!!). Good one Cafe Moroc, hilarious actually, but you're not fooling anyone!
The lunch took an hour and a half. This is kind of silly for the financial district, and considering there were only four patrons in the restaurant, totally unacceptable.
Great price + some great food + poor service + terrible steak = Meh. Don't go for lunch.
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