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| - When you walk into Casbah Restaurant, you are welcomed by a warm, intricately decorated environment full of rich fragrant smells. The restaurant is great for date-night dining, as the tables are small and fairly private, tucked around various corners of the restaurant.
If you want to try a variety of dishes on the menu, I recommend getting the "Tour of Morocco", a 4/5 course meal. Both me and my date opted for this option. Where there were options, we chose different dishes and shared so that we could each try as much as possible. I say 4/5 course because the menu advertises this as 5 courses, but 2 of them are served together so it's really 4. We had:
Harirra Soup: a simple soup including chickpeas and lentils in a saffron tomato broth. The soup was flavourful and comforting if maybe a but thin
Khoudra Salad and an appetizer of Merguez: The Merguez is a spiced beef sausage wrapped in phylo pastry and fried. The beef was lightly spiced and the phyllo was perfectly flaky. The salad is a mix of carrots, corn and beets with vinaigrette. Being light and crunchy, this salad was a great accompaniment to the fried Merguez.
For a main, we tried both Tagines. The sweet one included chickpeas, dates, sweet potato, carrot, pecans and pears and we paired this one with lamb. For the savory tagine, which includes peas, potatoes anad olives, we ordered the cornish hen. The sweet tagine was quite sweet, I don't think I would want to eat on on its own. But, when alternated with tastes from the savory tagine, it was delightful. The meats were both cooked beautifully with the lamb being fork tender and the hen was "fall off the bone".
The dessert comes with coffee or tea and seems to vary. On this visit, the dessert was a scoop of vanilla ice cream served over strawberry oreserves, topped with chocolate sauce, crushed toffee and a piece of balklava. The ice cream and toppings were average. The highlight of this was the flaky, syrupy baklava.
Service was prompt and friendly. Before food service, you get to wash your hands with rose water, which is a Moroccan tradition. I found the portions to be on the small side, but given we were eating four courses, I appreciated this as I didn't leave feeling overly full. I will note that the restaurant seems to be very accommodating to dietary restrictions as the menu highlights which dishes are vegetarian and/or gluten free.
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