If you only ordered zaalouk ($3.50), you'd be disappointed.
Despite a promising undertaste of cumin, this soggy eggplant-
and-tomato puree seems like baba ganoush's dull-witted cousin.
Neither do the filo cigars impress, with their unseasoned ground
meat tumbling out the ends. And La Kasbah's dining room—garishly
lit and robed in mirrors—doesn't try to capture the romance of
Morocco the way places like Layla and Chez Es Saada do. An
electronic keyboard the size of a Honda Civic dominates the room
from a rug-strewn dais, behind which slouch a pair of frilly-
collared bas-relief troubadours. They must have overslept the
day the Crusades... More >>>