{"id":966,"date":"2007-11-08T23:27:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T23:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/sista\/?p=966"},"modified":"2007-12-06T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T22:21:10","slug":"maghreb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/sista\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"Maghreb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morrocan food has not always left behind a lasting memory when I’ve eaten it in the past though that’s not to say it wasn’t a pleasant experience. For some reason it just doesn’t make me think – mmm \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I’d love to have that meal over again. Perhaps it has to do with the food selections or perhaps Morrocan food is nice but just not memorable. <\/p>\n

Well, tonight Akhlaq took Jenny and I to Maghreb, a Morrocan restaurant on the Islington high street, so I had another chance to review my opinion. Maghreb is a very pretty welcoming restaurant all decked out in warm colours and decorated appropriately. The menu is actually nice and varied but all three of us went for tagines – Jenny the duck tagine with apricots and raisins, Akhlaq the
\nchicken and vegetables tajine, and I went for the rabbit with raisins and pears. <\/p>\n

My rabbit was amazingly tender and literally fell off the bone. The raisins and pears gave the dish a sweeter quality and was generally quite tasty – though it could have done with a bit more bit and also a thicker clingier sauce. Jenny’s duck was similar tasting though as a meat the duck had much more flavour. I was happy with the meal if unexcited. The cous cous side was bland but the rice was nicely fragrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I was pleased that service was extremely friendly and efficient and the atmosphere was pretty good tonight – though it probably helped there was a large group sitting nearby having a celebration of some sorts. Otherwise I’m not sure how busy it normally gets. Price-wise once we included a starter of hommous (which came with lots of nice crusty warmed bread), sides of rice and cous cous and drinks the meal was actually quite a bit more than I expected at about \u00c2\u00a317 each but to be fair I was nicely stuffed. <\/p>\n

My final conclusion is that the food, though it came in nice sized portions, was fairly tasty and of good quality, was nothing out of the ordinary. I might have to try something more adventurous next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morrocan food has not always left behind a lasting memory when I’ve eaten it in the past though that’s not to say it wasn’t a pleasant experience. For some reason it just doesn’t make me think – mmm \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I’d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/sista\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/sista\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/sista\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/sista\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/sista\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/sista\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/sista\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/sista\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/sista\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}