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Great introduction to Tunisian food. The sauces are really quite a unique mix of spices.
The Tunisian soup is something like a Chicken-Barley, and really well prepared. Kids (4 and 7) loved it, and ate that, and about a kilogram of pita they soaked in it. Not a very filling soup, but the pita and (spicy!) paprika/olive oil dip make up for it I guess.
The appetizers (Brique and Calamari) were quite good, albeit I think a little more calamari would have been nice -- we ate every last drop of sauce, of which there was plenty. The Brique is a meat (chicken?) filling to a springroll pastry -- mild and delicious; quite substantial when compared to the calamari.
Mains: Trout in coriander sauce is certainly more flavourful than the couscous dish, which was massive. The grilled eggplant in the trout dish is perhaps the best I've ever had.
Dessert was a coffee-infused creme brulé. Not the best presentation, or color, but texture was perfect and the flavour quite good. Very rich dessert, and lots of it.
Heat ratings -- we have kids who are only partly tolerant:
Calamari: 1
Brique: 0
Soup: 1
Trout: 1
Couscous Royale (meat): 0
Couscous Royale (sauce/couscous): 3
We'll be coming back at some point, but overall I get the sense that on an average day, I would choose Indian over Tunisian. The plethora of Mexican, Ethiopian, Moroccan, etc., restaurants along Danforth will lure me in before I get there.
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