Moroccan & Mediterranean Cafe (St Nicholas Market)…read more St Nicholas Market is brilliantly transformed into a Moroccan side street when dining at Al Madina St Nicholas Market. We were there on at the weekend - people squeeze by, in the throws of various conversations - and you feel part of all the activity, watching it all go by either siting at the 'al fresco' wrought iron / mosaic table & chairs or lounging in the boudoir enclave. The staff are great and run around trying to sort out meals and seats for people as both are in Hot demand. The meat mains are from around £5 and veggie dishes around £2 - £4 - very, very delicious.

Having lived in Morocco for a few months I can tell you that everything at La Casbah is pretty…read moreauthentic - this includes the décor as well as the food. There's quite a few traditionally cooked meals prepared in tajines, but I always rock up and order the same thing. It's lamb and prunes with couscous all the way! I love this dish, and wish I could perfect the recipe at home, but until I do, I am bound to this place, because no-one else makes it better. I rarely spend more than a tenner when I come here. There's stiff competition amongst quite a few restaurants in the immediate area, which is great for the eater, even if it means that none of the restaurateurs in Easton are likely to be able to afford to retire early. But you could always leave a larger tip than usual if your conscience gets the better of you!

Well, it's not Casablanca but this Easton eatery does manage to bring a little Moroccan spice and…read morewarmth to Bristol. Good lamb dishes, as you would expect from a Moroccan place - all spicy and tender. Not just about the meat though, with plenty of choice for vegetarians as well. Plenty of puddings to tempt you but no alcohol as this place is BYO. If you're not from the area what really makes it worth a trip out here are the prices. You won't pay more than a tenner for any of the mains, and usually quite a bit less. So as well being able to try something a bit different you can do it without splashing out, splendid.

Marrakech is a wonderful authentic Moroccan restaurant and takeaway, the food is served in…read moretraditional morrocan plates, if you go for a tagine your in for a pleasant surprise with the bubbling hot food and aroma as if you were in marrakech ! I strongly recommend a visit to this real authentic moroccan restaurant !

Tucked away along one of the alleyways of St Nicholas Market in Bristol, this boudoir-style…read moreMoroccan café is always a hive of activity, with plenty of competition for seats. Open only at lunchtimes, it's always heaving with customers who either dine al fresco in the alleyway, or squeeze into the cosy covered area on brightly-embroidered Moroccan cushions. Not only is this place great value, serving up delicious Moroccan cuisine at very reasonable prices, but it's also friendly and atmospheric - almost like Bristol's own little corner of Marrakech! They serve up heavenly meatballs, lemon chicken (a personal favourite), lamb dishes, and plenty of vegetarian options such as cous cous with feta and lentil soup - all washed down with a glass of traditional mint tea. St Nicholas Market itself is right in the heart of Bristol, and in the food area you can take your pick of all sorts of international cuisine, from spicy Caribbean to hearty Portuguese - but Bab Mansour is my clear favourite! It's just a shame it's not open in the evenings - and you'll probably find yourself waiting a while for a seat most lunchtimes.

Stroll through the corridors from the indoors St Nicks market, and in front of you is Al Bab…read moreMansour / The Moorish Café. The smells of their food stewing immediately draws you in, but that might also be the colourful décor of various throws, brass table tops and glowly lamps. Their Morrocan menu uses Halal meat, and consists of lamb stews, chicken stews, meatballs, vegetable stews served with rice or cous cous. There are also soups, salads and daily specials; all written out on their hanging blackboards in front of the café. This place is run by partners Abdelouahid and Ahmed, who's passion for their food clearly shows when you step into this place. The mint tea is something to be tried - it is warm, soothing and refreshing and you get it served in a great looking Morrocan teapot. The vibe here is relaxed and comfortable, even if it is chilly outside you feel sheltered and snug among all the throws and cushion seatings. However if it fills up inside, there are outside tables where you can enjoy your food too! This place is a rare little hideaway that's super for bringing your friends and family to hang out and that makes you feel like you're on holiday somewhere far, far away...

Excellent little find as a new opening on Apsley Road. This venue has changed hands a couple of…read moretimes recently, being slightly off the thoroughfare of Whiteladies Rd. The new owners have a restaurant in Bedminster that my family highly rated, so being around the corner was a plus. Really tasty, well cooked Moroccan food on the menu. A fairly concise offering, but everything looked interesting and appealing! We went with lamp chops, with pearl barley, tzatzaki, lemon, aubergine which was amazing and a mushroom dish which went down very well with the finance! The carrot cake was massive and tasty, as well. Small advice, it was a cold evening and the restaurant is half inside, half under a high spec awning, so try and get in the building if there's a chill. Didn't put us off, however!

I wanted something slightly different for dinner and was not disappointed by the delicious Moroccan…read morecuisine on offer. The owner was friendly and welcoming and the decor. and food were both authentic. We forgot about the 'Bring Your Own' alcohol policy so were ushered to co-op just down the road. Excellent location, just outside the city centre. I'm a big fan.

This independent BYO restaurant is a local treasure. The owner is cheerful and the food is good…read more Seating is either at small tables or cushion style around a low table for groups. Quite a small menu means the food comes quickly and is consistent, but a couple of specials would go down well with me just to add a little variety. BYO helps to keep the cost of a meal down and there's an off license nearby. Corkage is £2 per bottle. Do phone for a reservation, it's quite popular

Yum yum yum hot tagines of scrumptiousness. I used to live…read moreround the corner of here and shops and restaurants came and went in the blink of an eye. However Marhaba has deservedly stuck it out. Despite the Harvester-style banners on the outside, the restaurant inside is pretty and authentic in decor. The staff are beaming with pride about the food so much that it is infectious, and it is hard to pick out just one dish to eat. For those not sure what to expect from the food, think slow cooked dishes of chopped up meat and vegetables with lots of flavour and juices but not as spicy as curry. That doesn't really do it justice - you should just go and eat! They also have Moroccan wines selected to compliment the food which are really interesting and very nice * hic * Find this on the corner in Lower Fishponds opposite Lodge Causeway.

Okay, so a simple takeaway was our plan, we thought we'd pop in, place our order, go the the cross…read morekeys have a pint and a game of pool then on our way home pick up the food. But as we walked in we thought, this is pretty nice, and within a few uncertain moments the 4 of us found ourselves sat round a table, and we never looked back! The food is really nice here, you can tell that alot of the meats have been slow cooked to perfection. If you come here between tuesday and thursday you can get a 2 course meal for £9.90, now that may seem a bit pricy, but once you've tasted the food you'll think you've had a right bargain! Fishponds isn't the most upmarket of all places, but the Marhaba provides some much needed quality to the food on offer in the area.

Stopped in for lunch on a whim and was not disappointing. Small place with only a few tables and a…read moresmall menu with about 10 items total. Server was very friendly and helpful. Had a mix lunch of Moroccan chicken & chicken tagine plate served in an aluminium dish, Very tasty and filling and quite a deal at £6 (they also do wraps for a bit less)

In order to make this review more efficient, I am going to divide the problems the business is…read morefacing into 2 categories. 1. More minor, teething-problem type issues, that will hopefully (for their sake) be cleared up in the long-term 2. Major, serious issues that will result in the imminent failure of the business if not addressed immediately --------- I booked a table for 4 at 19:30, which I consider a pretty standard time to eat. I had a voucher from a well-known voucher company, which (alas) I pre-paid for. The manager wasn't enormously polite when I booked, but I figured he was having a bad day, or whatever. We arrived on time, and ordered around 19:45. The starters arrived an ENTIRE HOUR later. During that time, we were not asked if we would like more drinks. We also were not updated as to what was going on. The only contact we had with any staff was when the waitress came back after about 15 mins to tell us that several things we had ordered from the menu weren't actually available. There was also an hilarious moment when we were brought glasses of water intended for another table of annoyed customers. We kept them, for the lulz. During this time, most of the other guests left the restaurant, conspicuously not paying or leaving any tips as they did so. We could hear apologies from the very junior staff, and it was obvious that people were unhappy. The manager appeared to spend quite a bit of time hiding behind the bar (he used to run the Queens Shilling, so I supppose he was regressing to a safe, warm, familiar place in the hope that all the bad noises would go away). Starters: Awful, with no thought put into our dining experience, bad presentation and terrible cooking technique. I had Tiger Prawns in Harrissa sauce (sounds divine, no?). The prawns were pregnant (bellies full of little eggs) which revolts me, and is, in my book, bad cooking form- even if they're safe to eat, they look horrible in that state. I also think it's unethical to harvest pregnant creatures (though this isn't Tan Tan's fault directly) On top of this, they were served in their shells in the piping hot sauce. So what am I meant to do, just shove my fingers in there to fish 'em out and de-shell them? Or wait for them to get cold first? Decisions, decisions... I also had to ask for a bowl for the shells and a finger-washing bowl. In any case I didn't use them. I sent the tragi-prawns back to the kitchen, with a tear in my eye for the hundreds of wasted prawn-lives. The staff didn't bother to collect the finger bowls, so eventually I left them on another table on my way out for a smoke (I hadn't eaten my starter so I could, in good taste, smoke between courses. Also, i was bored out of my mind by the wait). Main Course: Arrived sometime after 10PM. 2.5 hours after we sat down to eat. This kind of delay is simply unacceptable. My lamb tagine had 4 or 5 pieces of 'lamb' in it, that were actually hunks of bone and gristle with a few edgings of meat. The vegetables in the sauce had been rendered somewhere close to liquidity due to overcooking. The sauce itself lacked any flavour at all. There also simply wasn't enough of it (a classic Woody Allen-esque case of 'terrible food, and such small portions!'). If you're making this type of food (which I have at home, with better results), there simply is no reason to run out of it. You make a massive pot of it to begin, and make more as required. I guess Tan Tan don't do it that way though. Baffling, really. Plus points: 1. We got a free drink (after about 2 hours of tedious waiting around) 2. We got a bizarre apology at the end. The manager said "sowwy" in a baby voice to us (!?) Minor problems: 1. Staff casually and openly chatting to friends or showing no urgency with a restaurant half-full of furious customers. 2. A manager that appeared to command no respect from his staff 3. A manager who spent too much time fussing over one specific table of guests (obviously his friends) 4. Not enough salt and pepper shakers for every table to have one 5. Taps in the toilets that we couldn't turn off 6. No thought put into the basics of dining- where to put shells, when to bring out more cutlery, etc. 7. No cigarette disposal boxes outside, so the butts had to go on the floor (which is technically against the law). 8. Inexperienced staff that couldn't remember basic orders (though they were young, and obviously flustered) Major problems: 1. Customer service. Apologies were grudging. Staff had given up on decent customer service by 8PM. No professionalism from anyone. 2. The manager. At one point, he poured himself a glass of wine to go with ours, saying he'd had a bad shift. !Newsflash for the manager! We don't care. And drinking on the job is enormously unprofessional, even at the best of times. 3. The food. Very, very poor. 2 of our side dishes were literally a can of tomatoes, a can of mixed beans and some spinach in a bowl. They tasted as though the beans hadn't been rinsed 4. Poor ingredients

You wouldn't know it from outside, but when you step into Falafel King on Cotham Hill, you're only…read more5 or 6 steps away from one of the most amazing dining experiences in Bristol. And it's not (just) the food that sets Falafel King apart. Walk down stairs and you'll find a hidden, middle eastern cavern of cushions, sequins and beautiful lighting that is like nothing else I've seen. The space is so nice and so well done you instantly forget that you're in Bristol. Just to the back of this room is a little Shisha Garden with pond and more cushions and bean bags. We came a couple of weeks ago and had some tea, then some food and then just chilled in the Shisha garden for an hour or so. It was so good! The food is incredibly fresh and the mint tea is so refreshing I could drink it all day. In fact, I found out that it wasn't actually tea, but a specific type of mint leaves, which makes me like it even more. I've eaten here a number of times and everything has been great. I particularly liked the mezze platter as it gives you the opportunity to sample lots of stuff. This would be such a great place for a different birthday or work party. It's definitely one of my favourite places in Bristol.

I was taken here on the recommendation of my girlfriend who suggested it for a quick bite to eat on…read moreSaturday lunchtime. To be honest I'm glad we did, I absolutely love middle eastern food and this place was perfect. Everything was freshly prepared, their falafels are absolutely amazing and the portion size was great, whilst being healthier than other restaurants. I went for a falafel laffa which costs roughly £4.50 but was absolutely huge, it comes with 6 falafel, hummus, all sorts of salad and then a choice of condiment on top (I went for garlic mayo) I would say I have a large appetite and this left me feeling full, not bad for £4.50! I took a photo of the same laffa with my girlfriend to give you an idea of size. Being slightly greedy I also bought some of the flapjack which is partially dipped in chocolate for £1. To my eyes it seems to be the chewy granola slices from Sainsbury's finest range dipped in some milk chocolate, a bit of a mark up but still a nice idea. Would definitely recommend the place, I'll be returning soon. If only I worked near it, I'd go there every lunch!