Little Marrakech Reviews Summary

Category: Moroccan restaurant St Albans

Address: 31 Market Pl, St Albans, AL3 5DL, United Kingdom

Phone: +441727853569

Rating: 4.6
based on 157 reviews.

Service

Pros:

  • "The service was perfect and the prices very fair."
  • "Service was fast and very efficient."
  • "Service good and friendly."
  • "Service is very good, waiting staff attentive and polite/helpful."
  • "speedy service"
  • "Service was fantastic, food was full of flavour and sizeable portions."
  • "Service was excellent, food was amazing."

Cons:

  • "as there were only 2 servers, the service was slow, which was disappointing"
  • "service very slow then as we left the Waitress ran out after us saying we had not paid enough"
  • "Staff extremely rude so we left without eating."
  • "Unfortunately due to the manager being highly rude and condescending to me and my 6 friends it spoiled the night."
  • "The manager was incredibly rude and hounded us to hurry that we only had 2 hours on our table."
  • "Umm where to start. Staff is rude and lack basic courtesy/ manners."
  • "The only reason that I've given this place a 1 star rating is the food poisoning I got from eating here which took me out for two days."

Ambience

Pros:

  • "Good ambience, great ambience and very friendly place."
  • "Nice ambience, we like the room decoration and lampshades etc."
  • "You really could be in Marrakech when you dine here."
  • "Very nice atmosphere."
  • "atmosphere and their attention to detail superb."
  • "What a lovely atmosphere, the smell of the food was enticing."
  • "The restaurant has a lovely cosy atmosphere."

Cons:

  • "Only small thing (really small!) was that we (party of 6) went on a warm day, with the food served piping hot and the venue a bit small it was a little bit warm."
  • "It's a little intimidating to see no prices on the dinner menu under £10."
  • "Decor and design needs refreshing"
  • "the music was ridiculously cheesey with love ballads, a v loud."
  • "The food has no taste, no atmosphere feel like sitting in elly very small."
  • "Other tables were offered dessert plates and we were not, and despite it being a special birthday, it was a fairly functional feeling service and atmosphere."
  • "Wish the place was a bit bigger!!"

Food

Pros:

  • "Good service with a smile.. excellent authentic dishes in cosy authentic surrounds."
  • "The mixed grill was good the lamb tagine was not as flavoursome as I was hoping for."
  • "The food is excellent."
  • "The food was some of the best I've tasted, the calamari was beautiful and lamb shank so tender."
  • "Delicious food with amazing variety and complexity of spicing."
  • "food was very hot and well presented"
  • "Food was so good, lots of choice, wonderful flavours & very reasonably priced for the portion sizes."

Cons:

  • "The meals could have done with more spice. My lamb shank was quite bland."
  • "Mezze dish was ok - can be improved."
  • "However, the main course was not as good as one would expect."
  • "Food wasn't that good very bland"
  • "Presentation looks good but food quality is zero. Rice is old and smells funny."
  • "Food terrible. Friend had a piece of plastic in her meal. I had a slice of fat that was supposed to be beef."
  • "The starter meze to share was not bad but also nothing special, the mains a prawn cous cous and a lamb tagine were very bland in flavour."

Value

Pros:

  • "Prices great ..... what’s not too like."
  • "Food was so good, lots of choice, wonderful flavours & very reasonably priced for the portion sizes."
  • "Reasonable prices ensured a very good evening complete with ambience."
  • "Lunchtime meal deal is fantastic value."
  • "Reasonably priced for what you get. Very generous portions on the mains."
  • "Prices were very reasonable for what was served."
  • "Despite inflation the prices are still what I call reasonable for a fine dining venue."

Cons:

  • "No value for money none of mains comes with bread or rice if you want bread you need to pay extra."
  • "Price is a little expensive, but it is more of an up market eatery and dining experience."
  • "The wine was very expensive."
  • "I also thought that it was overpriced for what we had."
  • "The house red wasn't to my taste, so I got a Malbec, which was poor value at £25.95."
  • "I’m giving three stars because the shocking bill we had"
  • "Not the cheapest but still good value."

Entertainment

Pros:

  • "They arrange belly dancing on every Thursday evening."
  • "There's a dancer, who compliments the atmosphere, for a short time every Thursday."
  • "the belly dancer was an excellent touch & very talented."
  • "the Thursday belly dancer is a bonus if you're there then"

Cons:

  • "the music was ridiculously cheesey with love ballads, a v loud."

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