La Kasba

European and Moroccan fusion restaurant Discuss this article

From Time Out Dubai Eating Out 2008

This is a restaurant that doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. Is it French? Is it Moroccan? Is it a sports bar? Admittedly, the location out in the wilds of Century Village does not help, but the restaurant does little to make this clear itself.

The menu features salad nicoise, beef brochette and lamb tagine with couscous, and the decor is both formal and brightly lit, but there are also football matches playing loudly on large screen TVs. But whatever it is, the food at La Kasba isn’t really anything special – the spicy lamp soup is both oversalted and overvinegared, and the salad nicoise comes drowning under a lake of dressing.

The grilled mains arrive disappointingly short on meat, with salty vegetables, and both the brochettes and lamb tagine are somewhat tough and bland. It doesn’t pick up with the desserts – the crema catalana lacks the caramelised topping (surely the entire reason for the dish’s existence), while the tarte au citron is more of a crust covered in lemon meringue.

Service goes well beyond efficient – waiters are at the table so often, they might as well have pulled up a chair. Whatever La Kasba is, it’s not worth the trip.

• Previous reviews
  • 12 March,2007- reviewed by Time Out Dubai Staff
  • 22 March,2006- reviewed by Matthew Lee

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