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| - My friend and I were scrambling to find a place to have a single girl dinner on Valentine's Day and miraculously found a table in this tiny restaurant! This is definitely a place where you want to make reservations. It's small to the point of being cramped, but there's really not much they can do about it in this location. Don't expect the most comfortable seating arrangement is all I'm sayin'.
The main courses take about 40 minutes to prepare. Since our reservation was on the later side, we started with two appetizers to quell our hunger--the sardine salad and the Zaalouk (roasted eggplant dip). Loved the Zaalouk, especially with the grilled pita. The sardine salad was not my favorite. I had never had sardines before, but since I love anchovies on my salad, I thought I'd like sardines too. Well, I learned that sardines are more akin to tuna, and kinda flavorless. Otherwise, the salad was fine. I saw someone order the beet salad and was jealous of how amazing it looked by comparison.
When my shortrib tagine came out, I was sadly not very hungry due to the long wait for food. It was served boiling hot (literally, bubbling!) in a syrupy sauce with prunes and almonds. I hate to be "that person," but I order this preparation at my favorite Moroccan place in New York, and it's some life-changing braised meat. This didn't quite reach that level. The meat was a little tougher than I prefer for shortrib, but it was delicious nonetheless and since the portion was so large, I ate most of it for lunch the next day. Overall a solid meal and I'm glad we have a Moroccan option in Pittsburgh.
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