Gibraltar

Sehr, sehr lecker und dazu sehr preiswert.
Waren innerhalb von 4 Tagen zwei mal dort. Das erste mal hatten wir Hähnchen mit couscous und rindersteak. Beim zweiten Mal beide couscous einfach weil es so gut war ;) der Tee den man als Nachspeise bekommt ist inklusive, zwar sehr süß was dem Geschmack aber keinen Abbruch tut. Das Brot (auch inklusive) war noch warm als es am Tisch ankam und war, wie alles zuvor genannte auch schon, sehr lecker.

Tengo poco que contar pero con certeza.
Es que sólo he probado un rico té y cous cous de ternera pero en varias ocasiones. Es un plato que tanto me gusta que no puedo optar por otra cosa…

El cous cous se sirve generosamente.
Está ligeramente especiado y da buen aroma exótico. Los garbanzos son de buena calidad y sueltan mucho sabor al masticarlos.
La cebolla que adorna el plato está caramelizada y le da mucho toque al plato, por lo que si te agrada el sabor dulce, seguro que te encantará. Todas las verduras están en su punto.
Lo único que no me convence de todo es la ternera porque depende del día varía ligeramente su calidad.
Cuando se lo pido para llevar y tengo que esperar un ratín, siempre me invita un rico té. Aunque no me suele gustar el dulce, puedo apreciar su calidad y la verdad es que está riquísimo! Me parece un detalle muy bonito, así que siempre se llevan algo de propina y se lo merecen!
Por último la atención al cliente es muy atenta — valga la redundancia -, agradable y correcta. Da gusto tratar con ellos.

After having visited Morocco (Fes, Chefchaouen, Meknes) I asked myself, after eating at Gibraltar, why I ever left my neighborhood to try Moroccan food. Rather than laud it too much from the get-​go, I’ll just tell you how our experiences went.
Gibraltar is on our route between the house and the supermarket, so we are always passing by there, and I have waved hello to the waiter (whose name I learned is Ismail) several times before we finally made good on our promise to ourselves to stop in. We ordered some tea and it came hot as any Moroccan tea, but with rosemary instead of mint. I wondered if there was a second type of Moroccan tea, one with rosemary, and wrote it off to my enduring ignorance of Moroccan culture. It was still good tea. With the tea came a plate of tapas… tapas?! With tea? It was a plate of chopped chocolate (nutella?) crepes. I’ll let you imagine how delicious they were.
We went to finish and pay, but Ismail brought us two more teas, citing how he’d forgotten to sugar the first two appropriately. We didn’t have anywhere to go, so we smilingly accepted and enjoyed another pair of rosemary teas, finishing them just a little faster than we’d finished the first round. When I went to pay, Ismail wouldn’t let me! I demanded to the point of pressing money into his hand, but he refused! He was worried that we’d had a sub-​par experience and the gesture was one of goodwill. I want to make something clear: I have never had such good service in Spain, or really… anywhere else in the world, given the trappings of the place (by all accounts a typical, low-​rent café) and the size of the order (two teas!). No server has treated me, as a customer, with the care and kindness that Ismail did that day. I spent some time in the foodservice industry, and I remember how I didn’t like customers gushing over good service… yet here I am, singing the praises of a man who seems to be made purely of class.
I was so impressed I returned with friends, and the experience was just as good the second time around. We tried the tagines and the couscous dishes, which arrived in a reasonable space of time. I found them superlative (better than many I tried in Morocco) and less expensive than their Moroccan counterparts.
Hear me: this place is still a hidden gem in Madrid. You can still see lots of Moroccans hanging about, taking their tea on the street corner with their unsupervised kids playing around the door. «Ethnic» restaurants which still appeal to their native ethnicities are rare and seem to lose their magic when outed to the world. Get here before that happens!

My favourite Moroccan place in town so far. The service is always quick and friendly, the food is wonderful and price reasonable. You can order a delicious sandwich for around 3 euros if you are in a hurry, I like the one with spicy beef, fries, and vegies! They have menú del día (approx. 8 euros per person) which lets you choose a main course, together with a heartwarming «sopa de lentejas», and finishes with a cup of mint tea. Their couscous is tasty, but I recommend the «tallin» with lamb, plum and almond, dip the bread into the sweet sauce, that IS heaven. (btw, if you don’t want your clothes soaked with Moroccan flavours, it’s better to eat outside in their terraza, which is beautiful under the sun!)

Si te gusta la comida marroquí este es un sitio estupendo y barato. A mí la verdad que no me gusta nada el cuscus pero lo hacen estupendamente y te lo sirven en tallin de barro y queda muy cuco y es muy sabroso.
El sitio tiene una mezcla entre comida marroquí y bar de tapas español. Puedes probar sus desayunos, tomarte un té que está tremendo con un dulce típico de los que engordan muchísimo o puedes comer unos pinchos de ternera deliciosos. Los de pollo está muy ricos. Las lentejas en invierno reviven a cualquiera.
El precio es fenomenal, 10 euros aproximados por persona y te llenas bastante! Además el camarero es súper majo y la terraza es fenomenal. Estupendo para ir después del rastro o para comer un domingo tranquilamente :)