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Souk Medina
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Seeking the Moroccan party experience on a budget? Souk Medina may be for you. It attracts large groups of twentysomethings into its warren of cave-like rooms with an all-inclusive party menu. Consequently, it’s often a bit cramped and noisy at weekends: not great for a relaxed tête-à-tête. The staff always seem rushed off their feet, so service, while friendly, can be chaotic. That said, we were pleasantly surprised by the standard of cooking on our most recent visit. To start, rich zaalouk was a superior choice to the rather bland chicken briouats. Next, lamb couscous was spot-on: tender meat, a lightly spiced tasty broth with vegetables cooked just right, and harissa brought on request for added heat. Lamb tagine with peas was fine, our one complaint (as ever) being the unsuitability of pitta bread to soak up the juices. Why don’t more Moroccan restaurants serve good bread? The wine list includes some decent Moroccan choices like Siroua rosé and spicy red Siroua Carignan. Drink too much, though, and you’ll be shaking your stuff with the glam belly dancer and all those women on hen nights.
Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide 2009
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- 1A Short's Gardens, Covent Garden, WC2H 9AT
- Area: Covent Garden
- Tel: 020 7240 1796
- www.soukrestaurant.co.uk
- Book online
- Category: Moroccan
- Travel: Covent Garden tube
- Times: Meals served noon-midnight daily
- Price: Main courses £8.50-£12.95. Set lunch £16.95 4 courses. Set dinner £19.50 4 courses
- Credit cards: AmEx, DC, MC, V
- Services:
- Available for hire: Separate rooms available for parties, seating 45 and 100
- Child facilities: Babies and children welcome: high chairs
- Disabled: toilet
- Entertainment: belly dancer 8pm Thur-Sat
- Function room: Separate rooms available for parties, seating 15-100
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apart from the service which was a little poor everything else was first class. Fantastic food, great venue, brilliant atmosphere. Give it a try, Souk will not dissapoint.
DO NOT GO TO THIS RESTAURANT!!!!! i've been to Morocco and this place is nothing but a tacky insult to a real moroccan food!!! we booked in advance and specifically asked for a private alcove. we arrived to an empty restaurant and were seated in two cramped seats with the only other couple in there. after explaining to the manager that this is unacceptable we were eventually moved.
After 25mins and no service I went to get the waitress who at this point was dealing with an empty restaurant. It then took over an hour to receive our food. When our food finally arrived aside from the fact we had to rush it down because we were now running late it was awful. We ordered the set menu for £20 each and were brought basically a small plate of humous for two. Another 30mins went by and after complaining we were brought a meat tagine that consisted of 1 chicken wing and a pile of stewing steak. The fish tagine was so bad we took one bite out of it and left it.
The manager was very apologetic... as he handed us a bill for £60!!! Also, we went on a Friday and were told there were dancers which were probably working the kitchen that night! Please do yourselves a favor and avoid this place.
Don't go there! Quality of service is very poor. Food is overpriced. We had a reservation and waited 15min to be seated. 20 more minutes until we had our drinks.. food was quite tasteless. at the end, we had several items on our bill we hadn't ordered and eaten. definitly not worth the money!!
I went to this restaurant on Saturday and was entertained by the lovely Norsheen. Who is extremely talented and equally beautiful.
I can assure you that there was no transvestite in sight.
The restaurant had brilliant service and lovely waitresses and the food was exquisite. I would most definitely recommend it to anyone that would like to experience a different atmosphere.
DO NOT GO HERE! This restaurant is all style and no substance - it looks lavish and authentically Moroccan but the food is some of the worst, overpriced rubbish I've ever had - and it's not that cheap. We went for a friend's birthday and although we had a nice little alcove to ourselves the waitress was curt and spilt food on us as she collected our plates. The food itself was bland and not that reasonable for what it was. I had the 'chicken from the grill on a bed of salad' which consisted of a burnt, small chicken breast on a few leaves of iceberg...for almost £10. Everyone else in our party of ten didn't rate their dishes either.