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La Maison du Couscous

484 77th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11209

718-921-2400 | Website

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Category: Restaurants | Moroccan

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Despite the sale to a new owner, this Brooklyn classic charges onward. A recent revisit demonstrated that the chicken, lemon, olive, and potato tajine is as good as ever, offered in the namesake conical clay vessel. Availability of some dishes is spotty—there was no lamb on our visit—but the composed salads are on-target, and offered in hefty servings. Zaalouk remains a fave, a foot-long heap of mashed eggplant served with a warm, crusty baguette, and the vegetable-shingled couscous at the next table almost made us regret selecting a tajine.

  • Cuisine(s): Moroccan

    Price: $

    Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards

  • Features: Delivery, Patio/Sidewalk Dining

    Serving: Dinner, Lunch

    Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary

  • Parking: No Parking

  • 2008 | Moroccan

    Good Moroccan is hard to find in the five boroughs. The best place remains La Maison du Couscous, a closet in Bay Ridge where our favorite dish is a steaming tajine of lamb, artichokes, and peas. More >

  • 2002 | Best Toothsome Tajines

    In spite of the restaurant name, the tajines are the best things on the menu at Bay Ridge's LA MAISON DU COUSCOUS. The permutations of olives, raisins, preserved lemons, onions, root vegetables, and artichokes matched with chicken or lamb are... More >

Village Voice Reviews and News

  • The Wages of Bistroization

    By Robert Sietsema | Tue, January 11, 2005

    Though Moroccan cuisine is among the world's most subtle and appealing, New York suffers from a dearth of it. Manhattan Moroccan restaurants have typically been expensive and not very good, more intent on dispensing cocktails and attracting superm... More >

  • Eat Your Peas

    By Robert Sietsema | Tue, June 25, 2002

    Marshaled on the counter, the pastries possess poetic names. Kaab ghozal ("gazelle horns") are crescent cookies crammed with rose-scented almonds; the coiled pastry ropes stenciled like graph paper with powdered sugar and cinnamon are m'hanncha ("... More >

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    thevillagevoicebestof

    | Sun, May 10, 2009

    Good Moroccan is hard to find in the five boroughs. The best place remains La Maison du Couscous, a closet in Bay Ridge where our favorite dish is a steaming tajine of lamb, artichokes, and peas.

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