While in Tangiers a few weeks ago, we went to the "best" restaurant in the city. That is of course a subjective assessment, but our guidebook recommended it highly, as did the web reviews we looked out. How we ever found anything traveling in the 60's, 70's, and 80's, before Google, I really cannot remember, but there is WeeFee everywhere in Morocco, once you learn to pronounce it properly (no WiFi to be found). You just have to ask for the "mot de passe".
The restaurant is a little hole on the wall off a staircase, with a log line.
Eventually you get to the head of the line, and realize there is no menu. There are also only a handful of tables, some of which are long and can have multiple parties seated there. It reminded me of Legal Seafoods in Cambridge, way back when they were all the way out on the docks, and their current location in Kendall Square was just a touch dicey. There is a display board showing some options, but once you're seated, you don't have any choices and they just start bringing food and drink, a bottomless glass of fruit juice in a wine glass.
After fish soup, there was a cast iron pan with spinach and fish, then this grilled fish and skewers of fish. Finally fruit for desert.
The restaurant's alter ego is this cartoon character, which I seem to remember from childhood--maybe from the TinTin books. I think he liked spinach, which was featured in the second course.
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