The cruise on the Saga Ruby took us to North Africa, and a day trip to Rabat and Casablanca involved a local lunch at a good hotel, so they said. The hotel is next to the main railway station, and after some squeezing between parked cars, we were taken to a private dining area. Many of our elderly companions had not been to Morocco before, let alone eaten the food, and the suspicion level was high. The hotel has its own web site on http://www.majlisshotel.ma/accueil.htm and a big plus was good free wifi access.
I am used to coach tour lunches being chicken and chips, so it was a pleasant surprise to receive something a bit local. This is what we had:
a cold starter of mixed mainly cucumber salad, with garlicky dressing and egg that has lost its yolk, with local flat bread. I know we are warned off buffet salads like this for health reasons, but I think all survived this. Pretty good, and better than it looks.
A typical 'tagine' style chicken with olives served with couscous and hot sauce if you wanted it. Probably a 7.5 on the CHOF scale, but it was never going to be any better. Treated with great suspicion by my travelling companions, meaning all the more for me. Although I might have preferred to go a bit more native, that was never going to happen, and so for a tourist lunch it was actually pretty local and good. Reports on the hotel on Tripadvisor are mixed, and most people suggest eating somewhere else. The dangers of organised travel.
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