Visit #1 ·
★★★★★First visit, so I'm still figuring this place out. La Table du Souk sits on Rue de la Kasbah, which means you're walking past about forty guys trying to sell you slippers before you even find the door. Once you're in, the room does that thing old medina buildings do — narrow outside, surprisingly deep inside, with light coming from somewhere you can't quite locate.
I went with the spread. That's always my move on a first visit somewhere like this — you order what they push on you and you pay attention to the details. We had bastilla, a lamb tagine, some kind of merguez situation, bread that came out way too fast to have been made to order, and a plate of cold salads I didn't catch the names of.
The bastilla was the tell. Filo too thick, which usually means they're playing it safe for tourists, but the pigeon filling had real depth — cinnamon, saffron, something slightly bitter underneath that I couldn't place. Not cutting corners on the spice work. That matters.
Tagine was fine. Lamb was tender enough but the preserved lemon came in heavy at the end and crowded everything out. Could've pulled back by ten percent.
Service was attentive without being intrusive, which in a tourist-heavy spot like this is genuinely hard to pull off. The guy who brought our bread knew the menu and didn't hedge when I asked questions. That's a green flag.
Too early to call this place. One visit doesn't tell you whether the bastilla was a good night or consistent work. The kitchen clearly knows what it's doing with spice layering — I want to see if they can hold that standard when it's packed. Coming back.