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| - After walking all over Montreal, I decided to try this place. I'm a vegetarian and, even though the restaurant had only one vegetarian main course, I seldom get the chance to eat Algerian so decided to eat here anyway.
I started with the berber salad -- apple, sweet pepper, cucumber, tomato, and mint, supposedly, though I don't remember any apple and, if there was mint, there wasn't much of it. It was okay, but uninteresting. The waiter also brought me pita with harissa sauce. The pita was thin and seemed stale.
I ordered the vegetable couscous for my main course. The stewed vegetables were served separately from the couscous. Both look like something you might get in a friend's grandmother's house. There was enough food for two people, but I ate it all. The waiter asked if I wanted more.
The stew seemed to lack any spices whatsoever, but perhaps that's normal in berber cuisine, which I know is supposed to be relatively plain. I loaded it with harissa sauce, which made it a little more tasty.
The waiter seemed aloof and wasn't very helpful. Overall, my experience was disappointing. Perhaps a meat-eater would like it better.
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