NYC: Moroccan Food @Dar Lbahja in Astoria,

Описание: EATER NY, Feb 26, 2025: "Former Dar Yemma Chef Strikes Out on Her Own"
The well-regarded Moroccan restaurant Dar Yemma in Astoria’s Little Egypt closed last year due to management conflict, but chef Touria Lamtahaf is back at her own restaurant, Dar Lbahja, about a mile away.

Lamtahaf grew up helping at her parents’ restaurant in Marrakech, and, once she emigrated to New York in 2008, she started a catering company with traditional Moroccan dishes that formed the menu at Dar Yemma when it opened in 2022. Since its closing, she’s been actively looking for a storefront and signed the new lease in early February. In just three weeks, she and her husband, a full-time postal worker, have renovated and decorated the approximately 10-table space in time for Ramadan, which begins this weekend.

All of her signature dishes — tender chicken tagine with olives, savory harira (lentil and chickpea soup), intensely herbal carrots — make a comeback. Lamtahaf’s opening also signifies hope for women entrepreneurs in Astoria’s Muslim community where restaurants have largely been run by men as gathering places for men, although that dynamic has been shifting.

What We Ordered:
Harira (Moroccan soup made of tomato, lentils, chickpeas, herbs, meat cubes)
Zaalouk (Eggplant cooked in tomato sauce and marinated with charmoula)
Beef Couscous with Vegetables
Lamb Tanjia (Slow cooked lamb with preserves lemon and saffron)
Chicken Tagine (Chicken cooked with spices, saffron, olives and preserved lemon)
Moroccan Mint Tea
Jawhara (Ktefa or jawhara is a layered Moroccan dessert that is assembled with paper-thin sheets of fried warqa pastry. The filling between the crispy layers is usually made with a combination of toasted ground or roughly chopped almonds and sugar, while the whole dessert is served doused in a custard cream that is flavored with orange blossom water. Ktefa or jawhara consists of five to six layers and may come garnished with almond slivers, cinnamon, powdered sugar, mint, or fresh fruit. The dish is also popular in France, where it goes as pastilla au lait.)

0:20 Menu
0:37 Food Arrives
1:14 Couscous
1:33 Tagine
1:55 Tanjia
2:12 Tasting!
3:20 Zaalouk
3:43 Harira
4:12 Jawhara & Mint Tea
4:40 Pics

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