Kasbah Restaurant in Lambeth

Having a tastecard is a great thing in London, although the initial up front cost can be a lot, you easily make back the money in savings. My friend and i were lucky enough to walk in without booking and have the taste card accepted on a wednesday night. At first, everything seemed great, nice ambience, friendly owner but then the whole atmosphere changed when the manager/owner became what i can inly describe as "cheeky".

Mi novio y yo fuimos a cenar allí. La decoración es agradable, pero nada más. La comida era muy caro y horrible. Pedí «hortalizas tagine" para mi principal y fue una muy mala elección. Era sencillo, literalmente duros grandes trozos de zanahorias, patatas y algunas otras cosas horrible. No tiene sabor alguno. Nos fuimos al restaurante con hambre. El servicio de atención al cliente era tan malo! Jezz! No me cómo este restaurante es sobrevivir! Personal muy lento. Yo no recomendaría este lugar en un millón de años.

Regresamos a casa de una agradable velada en este restaurante y salimos el TripAdvisor críticas y eran tan estupefactos por las valoraciones negativas. Personalmente el servicio nos pareció excepcional (creo que el restaurante está bajo nueva dirección) y la comida era maravillosa. Si decides comer en este restaurante te prometo que no te decepcionará.

Este lugar no es "muy buena" pero yo diría que es definitivamente mejor que la media. Cenamos aquí en el último minuto antes que vuelve al otro lado de la calle del cine.

Hemos estado en este restaurante antes y la comida es buena. Sin embargo, no tienen un publicada lista de vinos, que parece poco profesional. Nos ofrecieron rojo, blanco o rosado y dijeron que un precio que más tarde resultó ser mal (nos costó más). Cuando llegamos a pagar nos dijeron la máquina de tarjeta no funcionaba, no se disculparon diciendo que no antes, por suerte tuvimos el efectivo entre nosotros. Pero entonces ya que nos quedamos fuera hablando luego en el camarero salió a decir que había olvidado de añadir el vino a la factura. No se disculpó y fue entonces cuando nos dimos cuenta que cuesta más que él le había dicho antes. Una pena porque podría ser muy agradables, pero todos estábamos ganas de ir otra vez.

The new owners at Kasbah went out of their way to make our evening very special, we were a party of 12 people (aged 17 to 50) celebrating my son's 25th birthday - we sat outside enjoying a lovely August evening, the service was excellent, the menu so varied something for everyone, the atmosphere was very relaxed, it was an evening to remember - happy to recommend it

I would say, this place is very good! I guess it's under new management, cause all staff is very friendly and welcome. Service is pleasant and quick. Shisha is good as well as drinks served as they are supposed to. Definitely coming back

Nunca comer aquí. El peor servicio de atención al cliente que he experimentado y eso no es una exageración! Llevé a mi pronto para una delicia. Primero nos llevó siglos para pedir bebidas, luego tuvimos que esperar otros 10 minutos en llegar. Luego tuvimos una ulterior esperar para nuestro pedido de comida para llevar. Pedí cordero tagine y mi hijo, albóndigas. El restaurante tenía unas cuantas personas en pero no estaba lleno. La comida de mi hijo vino después de unos 20 minutos, lo cual era aceptable, sin embargo, mi comida no llegó. Esperé con paciencia y no me puedo quejar. Mi hijo había terminado sus albóndigas y después a unos10 minutos mi comida no había llegado. Llegados a este punto, yo estaba enojado. Entonces Vi mi "tagine" y nos dijeron que la camarera que éste era muy mal servicio como mi hijo había terminado su comida hace unos 15 minutos. La camarera se disculpó pero dijo que era "tagine que tomó más tiempo para cocinar, sin embargo, cuando me indicó que las comidas debería haber estado juntos, ella se disculpó y caminamos lejos. Luego me abrió mi tayines de encontrar tagine con ningún cordero. Llamé a la misma camarera y preguntó sobre el cordero era a lo que fue grosera y dijo: "eso es lo que le pedimos", su manera era torpe que me molestó más porque sabía lo que pedí que me indicó en el menú en el pedido. Entramos en Ella y hablaba de lo que creo que era el gerente, quien se disculpó y me dijo que esperar. Unos 5 minutos más tarde ella respondió "aquí estás ... hemos encontrado! ". La comida era sosa, que consistía en unas cuantas patatas cortadas por la mitad con una carga de guisantes con jardín y 3 trozos de cordero, uno de los cuales era casi grasa! No vale el dinero. Después de comer, pedí la factura, el proyecto de ley venía con el precio completo con ninguna otra disculpa. Esto me molestaron así que mi hijo fue y recibir el gerente que toda la experiencia había sido inaceptable y la camarera había sido grosero en su manera. A continuación, realizó una ulterior bill y bajó 3 libras!! Este fue un insulto. Cuando señalamos, él y luego volvimos y había tomado el precio de mi comida pero nos dirigimos a poner en la factura un cargo por servicio 5,80 libras ... ¿qué es broma ... ¿Qué servicio? Toda la experiencia arruinaron completamente nuestra noche. Yo nunca comer aquí así que, por favor, lea este puesto. Cuando me registré la mañana siguiente en TripAdvisor, vi la mala clasificación, así que ojalá me parecía previamente.

Es una pena que el lugar es una preciosa calle tan mal servicio. La comida estaba bien y me pareció aceptable sólo porque no es especialmente caro, estábamos entre amigos, desconectar y estábamos bastante hambre, lo que ayuda. El servicio era horrible (una vez pregunté algún consejo sobre algunos platos de carne, la única respuesta que podía conseguir fue "me están edificando algo, soy vegetariana" - perdí mi buen humor y paciencia). La misma camarera era también muy mucho - inapropiada en algún momento escuchamos ella Mocking nuestra conversación. El mal servicio Lamentablemente no se pudo arruinar un muy buen ambiente en el grupo, lo que me pareció algo inolvidable. No volveré aquí de nuevo y recomiendo encarecidamente ir a cualquier otro sitio en el área pero aquí como Clapham Common es el hogar de muchos, no caros restaurantes.

Fuimos a cenar allí ya que Bodeans tenía una cola de espera 30 minutos ... así que decidimos probar este lugar delante de la imagen.

I was here last night In a group of 12 for a friends birthday. I wish we hadn't. Our mains came out over an hour after we ordered, and one was forgotten about and the staff had obviously lost her order and she had to wait an extra 10 mins. Everything had way too much salt in it and my mousakka was beyond the acceptable level of oily. Our water came in a water stained jug that looked like it was never dried up properly in its existence. When we asked for spoons to eat the birthday cake we were given huge soup spoons. And to top it all off it was very overpriced. If it were a better meal I wouldn't mind paying but it was only passable. We took off the 10% service they automatically add (to every table, not just large parties) and were glad to leave.

Hummus was edible but the pitta bread was stale. We enjoyed one fairly decent tagine but the sausage and couscous was only ok. Best bit was the BYO!

Me and my girlfriend recently visited this restaurant for dinner the service was friendly enough but the food was an absolute disgrace you would get better Mezza in Blackpool! Economy chicken wings with chilli flakes revolutionary! was called morrocan spiced chicken my cat honestly could have done better bland in the extreme.The chef was so lazy the hummus was bought from a supermarket and had that pasteurised taste and to make it look "authentic" the chef drowned it in additional olive oil and put copious amounts of paprika on top.They had not even gone to the trouble of buying pita bread from an Arabic supplier it was just wholemeal supermarket pita marked up to £5.95 absolutely outrageous!The spiced chicken livers just about the only think that did not come straight out of a packet resembled cat sick that had been mashed up with a fork a big fat zero for presentation.Delving a bit deeper they were incredibly overcooked and rubbery.In all honesty the skill level shown by the chef would have made a school dinner lady blush I have no idea how this restaurant continues to trade with such dire food.Having eaten at the excellent Tamra on northcote road last week the bench mark for north African and Arabic food in the area is very high.All I can say is AVOID like the plague!

I think the lesson learnt from this night out was 'suck up the wait time at Bodeans and deal with it!' Instead we crossed over to the pleasant looking Kasbah in Venn Street. The staff were extremely welcoming and the restaurant itself is nicely decorated and clean. Kasbah has the additional 'benefit', in this day and age, of not having a licence so we popped across to Londis once we'd ordered and re-seated ourselves with a fair selection of locally sourced 'tinto'! The food then arrived and that's where this nice little restaurant let itself down. The chicken livers I had to start were tough and tasteless and gave off quite an unpleasant odour! The other starters on the table, humus and haloumi, were passable but only just. I then had the lamb tagine which was, again, tastless! served with plain couscous it was the blandest meal i think i've ever paid for! The rest of the table had either meatballs (we seemed to arrive in the middle of national meatball shortage it seems) which were passable in flavour and also the royal coucous which was again 'bland'. A great shame really as it could be a lovely place if the food tasted nice!

This place is really a dump, the food is bad, the decor is lacking anything Moroccan. And it's really expensive! Avoid this place like an ex boyfriend/girlfriend.

My boyfriend and I used to visit this restaurant regularly and always looked forward to a visit.Having not been for some time we decide to book a table and revisit, however, I really wished we hadn't. The first warning sign should have been that previously the restaurant was always pretty full but on this occasion there were only a handful of customers. There was no atmosphere and the pace seemed dead. The service was slow (despite not being busy), the food which had always been so wonderful tasted very different (not in a good way) and the staff were not very friendly either. My boyfriend ordered the fish/seafood tagine which we have both had on numerous occasions, this time it was dull, dry, tasted odd and had a distinct lack of fish or seafood, very poor value for money. We definitely won't be making a return visit.

Very disappointing - we went for a special occasion and it was the biggest waste of money. The portions were measly, the food unimaginative and bland, and the service lacking. The only nice thing was sitting out on the atmospheric street - my suggestion is go to another bar or restaurant on Venn street for the atmosphere!I always aim to leave 10% tip but on this occasion I didn't want to, but they already added it to the bill! I couldn't be bothered to argue and made a note to share my experience on here instead - just wish I had checked first and could have saved a lot of money and had a better time somewhere else.

small intimate resturant with a good atmosphere and fantastic food.

Overpriced, terrible service and awful food. Don't go.

Well where do i begin......oh thats right with the water and if anyone can get this wrong then it's the Kasbah. We were wanting to quench our thirst and cleanse our palates and all we did was start a journey that would end with huge disappointment.How can water taste greasy? Unpolished watermarked glasses, a surly waiter, limp salad that had obviously been prepared much earlier in the day. Even the olives had been plated too early, leaving them paradoxically dry skinned and mushy!The cheese and spinach pastry had been fried in the same oil as the fish... so not a great place for veggies / vegans. The chicken tagine was bland with very little meat... more chicken in a Tesco's sandwich. The skewered kebabs were fine but nothing special... the local late night kebab shop could deliver better on both taste and price. The couscous was dry. Presentation of whole meal was sub standard.Wine list was limited but we found an ok but young wine that improved after some airing.Didn't bother with dessert or coffees... we're not gluttons for punishment. The waiter did not even ask if we enjoyed the meal as i'm pretty certain he knew what our answer would be.It comes to something that when we were leaving and saw a young couple entering for what they probably thought would be a romantic and exotic meal that i was close to shouting out that they would have better luck at Abduls Kebabs around the corner....but i didn't and for that i will forever feel guilty!Will not be going here again and cannot say enough to dissuade future patrons.

Never been as unimpressed in my life. The decor is probably the highlight, so long as you don't go to the toilet.The hummus was by far the worst I've had, not that it wasn't edible, it just didn't taste like any hummus should. Clearly it was missing something from the traditional ingredients whether tahini, garlic or lemon juice. It was so bland.The couscous dishes are served with the vegetables and sauce with your meat in a single dish, which would be fine if they put enough sauce to not leave the couscous dry. That said I still prefer the sauce and vegetables to be served in a side dish which allows you to mix in harissa and spice up to taste.Chicken skewers were again, average and lacked vegetables. Juices from the fresh grilled lemon squeezed out over the chicken as it was de-skewered and the chicken was perfectly cooked. However, accompanied by plain rice, dull iceberg lettuce salad and a reasonable cucumber and yoghurt side dish.Overall, highly underwhelmed and suprised it was so busy.

Cons - value for money, service.Pros - atmosphere.Nothing special, the food was ok at least fresh, most definitely over priced in my opinion. The service was ok I suppose, the waiter hardly said a word to us all night. The Moroccan decor and atmosphere is something a little different and most enjoyable.

We went here because in google it seemd like it had a 5 star rating. Tge error we made was that we didn't read the reviews as they were nothing to do with this restaurant. We had the mixed starters which were nothing special. They amounted to 1 prawn 1 sardine & 2 other items each. 3 of us had Tangines which were tasteless, the other person had a mixed grill which was 2 skewers one lamb and one chicken plus half a susage with rice. The service was very impersonal, you asked for what you wanted, it arrived and there was no other communication. The website implies belly dancing and a rich decor which is nothing like the place we went to. In fact the only thing you would recoginise is the outside of the restaurant. .