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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.

Single diner sitting down near the end of the Tuesday dinner crowd. Ordered the Cous Cous Royale, which included lamb chunks, lamb sausages, chicken and vegetables. Well, the lamb chunks were mostly bone and gristle, the pungent sausages tasted vaguely like lamb, the chicken was tasteless. Service was stupidly slow, even after people left and I was basically the only active diner. After even more delay, I get dessert - the wrong dessert. Urgh. I left after an absurdly long stay due to the slow service, $45 lighter and feeling duped. Never again!

i was at Tagine last week on friday and i brought over bout 4 friends and it was one of the best experiences i had in a long time... it was so good i came back the next day with another group of friends... the hookah was great, the service was fast, the food was unbelievable, and the atmosphere made me feel like i was in a whole other country... i recommend anyone that is into the hookah scene to go to Tagine

While the food is satisfactory, our waitress was unfortunately on the slow side. She was not responsive and had trouble explaining the menu items. As this is an establishment with exotic foods, the waitress's disability in this regard was most unfortunate. The quality of the food did not compensate for the bad service

We came here for dinner Saturday night. We had a reservation for a party of 4 at 8:30. I'll start with the positives: Food is good, though overpriced for what it is and the portion size. The ambiance: fun, upbeat, and really entertaining. The whole experience feels like you just went to someone's house for a dinner party, very casual. Except, if you go to someone's house for dinner party, I doubt they'd ask you to leave because they have more guests coming...so here comes the negative: We were asked to leave! Yes, leave! As soon as we paid our bill, which was a couple hundred dollars, and left a very generous tip, we were told by one of the random waitresses that was serving us (who by the way couldn't do a simple math calculation for the bill and couldn't pour a glass of water to save her life) and I quote "we have a reservation here for another party so could you please..." and she literally proceeds to motioned with her hand as if she was scooting us out the door! I've never heard of a restaurant asking its partrons to leave a restaurant before because another party is coming. And the way that waitress told us to leave was completely out of line. Their service from the start was poor. They didn't know how to describe dishes on the menu, we had random people serving us and didn't know who our server was. They kept rushing us to order every 2 minutes. Service in a restaurant can make or break a good experience, no matter how good the food is.