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I'm hooked!! The owner and staff are so gracious. They treat us like royalty in their house! Food is great - the Pastilla is my ultimate fav! Belly dancers are super entertaining. They have more than 1 show a night on date night (other places only have 1 20 min show a night.) Audience participation is expected! We had the best time! and I'm not going anywhere else for Moroccan food and entertainment.

I've been to many Moroccan restaurants in NY and I will never set foot in Tagine again. I asked the server what was the difference betweenthe 2 chicken dishes I narrowed my choices to. She answered in an arrogant tone that one had vegetables and the other didn't. Reading the menu, I could have told her that myself. She wasn't interested in explaining the ingredients or how the dishes were prepared. She made a mistake by insisting we ordered the lamb pastry when we specified we wanted the vegetarian appetizer. Service was slow and the portions were skimpy and overpriced.

All the bad reviews on the food are surprising. I have been here 3 times now and have brought different friends each time and we all love the food. The drinks are poured with a heavy hand and the wine glasses are huge compared to other places and filled high(not cheap wine either). Once again the food is great.

This place has the best Moroccan food I've had since I went to Morocco. Their harira was pretty good and their bastilla is a must try. The owner is very nice and friendly and polite. The restaurant wasn't even open when I went but he told me to come in anyway and he served me. I will definitely be going back.

The Short Version: Bland food Unprofessional Service RIDICULOUSLY High prices for the value The Long Version: A group of us had a reservation to celebrate my mother's birthday. She arrived early and made the mistake of sitting at the bar. On her first attempt she ordered a bloody mary but was told the bar had no tomato juice - hmmm... okay, a martini then. $14 and a very watery drink later, my mother was left sipping her cocktail at a very tiny bar occupied by two VERY drunk men and two young females of the staff in a very heated, loud and profane conversation. Unprofessional! Later at the table the food arrived and was so bland I could barely stand it. Wanting to keep it light I had ordered the cold Mezze and was completely dissapointed! Extremely small portions (of only 3 items) for almost $20! I may have been able to stomach the cost if the quality had excelled, but it was just plain BLAH! Had it not been for the fact that I didn't want to insult my friend's feelings (since she recommended the place) I would have definitely said something. No one came to see if we wanted more drinks until WAY after the meal was over. No one offered water, coffee, dessert (although we did bring our own bday cake and was amazingly not charged a "plating" fee!) or seemed really interested in the fact that we were even there (did I mention that there were 8 of us - kind of hard to miss.) With a 20% gratuity automatically added onto the check you'd think they'd be all over us trying to bulk up the bill. Instead it felt more like we were a bother to them. Then there was the music situation. The reason we actually chose Tagine was because a fellow friend was performing (a fabulous guitarist.) Unfortunately, in between sets the staff attempted to turn on their stereo system managing to blast us all into oblivion with sudden bursts of noise & static that caused ALL the establishment's patrons to jump out of their skin! And this happened 3 times! What was it, was everyone just hired tonight and not familiar with how things worked? Again, so unprofessional! The only good thing was that they did not enforce their "$25 per person minimum and $5 cover." Had they done that I would have walked out!

I have been to Morocco several times and to a couple of Moroccan restaurants in NY. Tagine's bastilla was better than the one I ate in Morocco and other restaurants do not even come close to their recipe and presentation. Our lamb tagine and short ribs tangia were absolutely divine. The quality of the meat was excellent, and it was so tender, it fell off the bone. Our servers were cheerful, polite and made great suggestions and they offered us bottle of water at no charge. I certainly return with more friends!

My meat had a lot of fat still attached to it, so I couldn't really enjoy it. The general taste of the food was not good compared to previous Moroccan restaurants I've been to.