Cafe Mogador

Wretched waitress/​hostess. After our meal, I ordered a tea. The waiter brought the tea over but did’t clear our plates. With no room for everything to fit on the table, I moved my empty plates over to the empty table next to us. After about 20 minutes, the hostess went to seat someone there. She saw the plates, asked the people she was going to seat at the new table to wait, looked me right in the eye, wagged her finger at me and said, ‘That’s a no no!’. I think a no no is treating adult customers as petulant children. If she or anyone had checked over in the 20 minutes between these events, they would have seen the plate there or cleared it from our table. She’s a no no!

Literally our favorite neighborhood restaurant.
Food is always fabulous, delightful ambience especially in the greenhouse at the back, and very pleasant service staff. You can never go wrong here — I recommend the Bastilla, any soups, all the appetizers, Haloumi, salmon– but as I said, all are delicious!
Another thing most people do not know — they’re actually open for breakfast at 9 AM!

Food is good but service is HORRIBLE! The waitresses never smile and look mad for no reason! They never checked on our table all they did was standing in the corner and talk to each other without paying attention to the tables and if you call them they give you the face! I don’t understand don’t they care about Tips!!!

It’s rare to come across a restaurant that I would actually consider a five-​star experience, but let’s add this place to my personal list.
I met up with a friend here at 11:45am for your standard Saturday brunch. I told her if she got there early to request a table with an abundance of natural light (because I like to take photos and incandescent yellow light is horrendous). The hostess was incredibly helpful, giving us two options and letting us know with repeated updates when our table would be ready.
The vibe is lively. I can’t place the décor, it’s friendly meets homey meets antiquey in the front meets Hell’s Kitchen Hotel Lounge in the back. The oversized large fronds from the Bird of Paradise plant (at least I think that’s what it is) doesn’t help.
I order Moroccan Benedict pre-​fixe with the orange juice and cappuccino. My friend orders the Middle Eastern Eggs. The dishes come out and it’s a hefty portion size, you’re not going to leave hungry. They also come out pretty promptly, thank gaaaawd.
My friend regales me for about 40 minutes with her friend drama and we never felt rushed out the door even though the wait to get in was clearly getting longer as the doorway and front of the restaurant were slowly filling with people. This is also why I recommend brunching before noon. That way you’re not waiting 90 minutes because there are tables like mine that spend their time leisurely eating their food while going into lengthy detail to color context on drama.
The potato homefries were surprisingly my favorite part of my dish… and my friend’s zahatar pita with hummus I couldn’t get enough of. If only carbs were good for you.

Had dinner here on Friday and it was amazing! Great food and awesome service — have to come back to try the brunch as it’s right near my apt!

Love this place. Worth every minute of wait. Killer atmosphere/​ambiance (maybe this one a little bit more than east village location — although that one has east village bookstore adjacent which is a fantastic spot to kill time).
This is one of those places where you want to order everything on the menu! Generous helpings, good wine, amazing tasting food, what more could you ask for? I’m getting hungry just thinking about it!

If you believe that brunch isn’t always about the boozy, then this place is the spot for you. This classic Mediterranean and Moroccan restaurant offers some of the best brunch in the city, and you don’t the alcohol to enhance your taste buds. Mediterranean classic appetizers such as Tabouli, Babaganoush, and roasted eggplant with tahini are all fresh and flavorful.
Brunch entrees such as the Moroccan Benedict and the Eggs Normandy and Florentine are all light, yet extremely satisfying. The best item on the menu has to be the Haloumi Eggs, with blocks of Haloumi cheese and roasted tomato over two delicate poached eggs, you would believe you were at ‘The House’ in Istanbul, and not Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
I’d say Café Mogador is a measure that you don’t have to unbuckle your belt or get slapstick drunk to have an awesome brunch.

This place is absolute heaven.
Came here on a Thursday night for a friend’s bday and was sat on the indoor patio? Really cute. Great ambiance.
I ordered the Chicken Tagine. I believe it was Casablanca-​style. Every morsel of every bite was otherworldly. The chicken was the perfect melding of tender and juicy and the spices were perfection. Honestly one of the best meals I’ve had so far in NYC.
My ONLY complaint would be that there was NO music of any kind in the restaurant which I thought was a bit odd. It would’ve helped the setting to at least have light mood music playing while dining with the gods.

Great space, great people match better then the east village location ,
The lamb tagine is super taste along with
A beautiful Bloody Mary .love that place!

The food is good enough and they have solid cocktails and a good vibe about the place. Really great atmosphere for laid back meal with friends.
The fish tangible had nice flavor.
Solid steak offering.
Cous cous is meh. But whatever.
The pictures u take here will look cool on insta

Such a nice place right near the Williamsburg waterfront. This café is Moroccan style and has a indoor garden out back.
The prices for the drinks, teas, and coffee are good.
The prices are for the meal are expensive and medium ranged.
This place is worth going for sure.

I haven’t found many good Moroccan restaurants in NYC, so I was really excited about how good this spot was. It looks small from the outside, but it’s a pretty large restaurant with a big back area that is like an enclosed garden. I recommend trying to sit back there if you can.
Many people below said that the portions are huge, but I thought they were just right. Each person can have one entrée to himself. I recommend the grill chicken most highly — the chicken is perfectly grilled and mixes really well with the vegetables (especially grilled onion) and rice they give you, plus you get a small salad on the side. I would also recommend the chicken cous cous, which is basically a couple chicken legs with cous cous and several large pieces of vegetables (potato, sweet potato, zucchini, etc.) All of the vegetables were so delicious and fresh tasting. Finally, I would recommend the mango martini, which tastes just like you’re eating mango sorbet.
This place does not take reservations for small parties, but we were able to get a table for 2 around 7:30/8 on a Tuesday immediately. Service was very quick too, even though the place was packed.

Good food, though not exceptional. Lamb was better than the chicken tangine, I thought. Cous cous is ok. Eggplant appetizer is good — tastes like any eggplant ever with chickpea or hummus sauce. Warm pita is served alongside.
Very nice looking restaurant. Good service.
Fail to see why this place averages 9.6 on Foursquare or 4.5 stars on Unilocal.The food was fine. Move on.

Café Mogador will not disappoint, if you have not come here I do not know what you are waiting for!!! The food is exceptional and flavorful and unique. The lamb dish was sweet and extremely hearty. The bread on the appetizer round was so fresh it can melt in your mouth and the hummus was the best hummus I have ever had in my life! My boyfriend took me here for our anniversary date and it was impressive and super romantic. It was definitely a highlight i wont ever forget.
The waiter was extremely attentive and friendly. The vibe here is great!

Maybe I came on an off night — not sure. The food (with the exception of the dessert dish we’ve tried) was great but the service was extremely disappointing. My date was excited to be there and so was I, after hearing all the great things I was hearing from him. From the moment, the hostess was seating us to the moment we had a dessert (which was overly sweet, and after sharing one bite, we shared our disapproval and was offered the fact that she wasnt going to take it off the bill anyhow), service here was disappointing.
Service is what ruined the thought of my return.

What. A. Find. Amazing ambience and food on *point.* I got the chicken grill and my husband got the halumi cheese poached egg breakfast. Both of us left wishing we could eat every meal here the next week.

What a lovely place! The restaurant is beautiful with a very nice patio/​garden in the back. Also, the décor is super nice, the hipster touch but with a Moroccan side to it. They also have outdoor seating in the front although it’s tight, I think they have room for just one table.
The food is as good as the one in East Village. I order the salad nicoise which came with grilled salmon (ordered it rare!) and it was aaaaamazing. The babaganoush is superb and comes with warm pita bread.
The soup of the day was a total finding: butternut squash and turnip. Wow! Delicious.
Good prices and menu options. Definitely a top 5 option in Williamsburg.
The Burger which my brother had was great too. Lamb and veal combined in a kick ass patty with caramelized onions!
Recommended!

Beautiful space, beautiful people, beautiful food. I’ve been to the East Village location numerous times but the WB location has that something extra.
Recommendations:
Moroccan iced tea — if you like mint, definitely try this
Babaghanoush — smokey eggplant dip with soft fresh pita
Duck confit — super crisp skin and tender meat served with balsamic reduction and excellent French fries
Bastilla — a unique sweet and savory dish of chicken, egg and nuts wrapped in filo dough and dusted with cinnamon and sugar
Lamb tagine — obviously
Orange and almond cake — lightly sweet and very refreshing
Everything is overall well executed and makes for a memorable meal. This place and Smorgasburg are pretty much the only reasons I would venture into the terrifyingly hip land that is Williamsburg. Seriously, I saw a guy with light up roller skates on my way out.

Hermano gemelo de mi restaurant preferido del East Village. Este local de Williamsburg es hermoso; amplio, luminoso y con un patio precioso. La comida es espectacular, el grilled chicken de Mogador es uno de mis platos preferidos ever. Es un gran lugar para desayunar también. Amo todo.

Café Mordor is where you go to destroy the ring of power. Luckily this is not that, otherwise the Morroccan food wouldn’t be nearly as good.
What to get: Lamb or Chicken Tagine with traditional sauce and Couscous
And: There’s a Manhattan location of this place too
What else: Don’t get confused and order a «Tangerine with Couscous.» You can buy those at the grocery store nearby, and it’s a lot cheaper.
Café Smogador is the Los Angeles equivalent of this place. It has much better air conditioning, is full of models and Mexicans (and Mexican models) and the advantage is that at any time of year, you can hit the beach after a meal, with a belly full of couscous.
This is basically good, slightly gentrified Morroccan food at New York City prices (specifically Williamsburg prices). I’ve eaten here twice (although one was the Manhattan location), and I can say that both the Lamb and the Chicken Tagine are:
(a) delicious
(b) have a lovely sauce (traditional style)
© portions are too small
(d) overpriced
(e) couscous is cooked perfectly
Café Logad, OR is the Portland Oregon version of this place. It’s full of Lumbersexuals and people named Jacks, doing Jack-​like things such as felling trees, felling each other up, and Jack-​ing the way only Jacks can.
That’s about all there is to it really. You’re going to be paying 15 – 25 here for food, and I wish it were under 10 for something because then I’d eat here more often. The prices are comparable to the amazing North African food in Paris, but thankfully, so is the taste. Unfortunately, the portions are not.
Café Fogador is the San Francisco version of this place. It’s on Alcatraz Island, and once you dine there, you can never leave, unless you’re Sean Connery and even then you have to swim the f***ing channel so you’re f***ed either way.
You have a choice of 3 or 4 different sauces with the Tagine. I highly recommend the traditional, which is a little sweet featuring Sultanas and such, but is authentic and delicious. The other options seem to me modern «inventions» to try and please the Americans, and that never floats my boat. I may try the Cilantro sauce at some point (I think that was one of the options). Note that by Sultanas I do not mean Sultans,
Café Smaug-​ador is not very popular. In fact it’s desolate. Mogador on the other hand is much more popular.
For someone that doesn’t even like Hobbit/​Lord Of Rings stuff, and has never seen a single movie or read a single book connected with it… there were an awful lot of Dildo jokes in this review. Oh crap, I meant Bilbo. See? I totally am a Tolkein amateur. I’m also a toking amateur too because I’ve never done drugs in my life. But you don’t need to know that. You just need to know that you should come here and order a Tagine.

Love it love it!
A Moroccan and Mediterranean restaurant that started in East Village, now has an outpost in Williamsburg.
Perfect place for a date, double date, dinner with friends or family. They have a wonderful greenhouse seating in the back. Amazingly popular.
Tip: Come early to beat the crowd, around 5−6pm.
The food:
Amazing lamb chops, tender juicy chicken, tender bowlful of PEI mussels where you want to sop up all sauce with bread.
The only item that I wished I didn’t order was the lamb meatballs. $ 10 for 3 quarter sized meatballs. Yes they were tender, but over salted and unsatisfying.
Had an amazing time with my hubby and great friend.
Wish I could eat here every other day.

Cadre agréable, mais né vous attendez pas à un tajine à la marocaine. Ici, trois bouts de poulets, un peu de riz et trois pois chiche. Le vin (californien) est plutôt bon, par contre.