Azou

We were here for a friend’s party. It is a tiny hidden gem with brilliant food and service!
I haven’t eaten so much food in the longest time. Their portion size is fine but the contents are quite filling. We had a party menu and I chose these:
Nibbles — Hummus + pita bread
Starters — Briouat (pastry with a filling of brie and goat’s cheese)
Calamari
Mains — Tajine zitoune (chicken breast in lemon sauce) and a side of cous cous
Dessert — Baklava
Tend to nibble a lot on the pita bread, which fills up tummy space reserved for other food. Fantastic food, served piping hot and on gorgeous earthenware. Only disappointment would have to be the baklava.
Staff is cheerful and extremely friendly. We had a good banter with them.
Small, very cozy restaurant with appropriate lighting and décor. Can get slightly squishy if you are in a big group. More a place for smaller groups of 4 – 5 people.

So nice, I had to come back twice. After trying this restaurant with family a few years ago, when a group of friends were looking to meet up for dinner, I suggested this restaurant and it fully lived up to expectations.
The service is attentive, but without being overwhelming. Considering that when we turned up we were the only people in the restaurant (early Sunday night dinner) it never felt as if we were being leered over as I have experienced in other restaurants.
The food was insanely good. The Tagines were delicious. They left our entire group feeling satisfied but without being full.
Between 5 of us we shared a rice, couscous and homemade bread along with our Tagines and this was more than enough.
The décor of the restaurant is really nice, with decorations along the ceiling. When we first arrived it was still light outside, and while the restaurant looked nice then, once darkness fell, the restaurant came into its own and the lights and fabric along the walls and ceilings looked fantastic and gave the restaurant a great atmosphere.
Great night at a restaurant with a fully deserved great reputation.

One of my all time favourite restaurants in London. Tiny, cozy, and full of flavour, this place is somewhere I try and visit every time in town. BEST hummus I’ve ever had. Seriously I have daydreams about this hummus and it’s awful because I have to fly to London to get it. Other high lights of the menu for me are the falafel and tagine romanne– on the sweet side, full of pomegranate and roasted almonds. YUM I die. Please do your taste buds a favour and VISIT.
Also noticed someone said this place was over priced– ITS NOT.

Azou offers fantastic, if somewhat overpriced Moroccan food in a cosy, warm interior.
It was also an unexpected discovery on our part — we had no idea that Mr Ramsey had christened it his favourite Moroccan restaurant in north London for 2010.
Thankfully the food continues to make good claim on that title. My girlfriend’s lamb tagine was beautifully cooked, practically falling off the bone. My chicken tagine was decent but not as good. Still, it was noticeably better than either of us had had in Morocco itself.
Another plus is the interior: all cushions, low-​lighting, a mix of Moroccan blue and reds on the walls and fabric partially hanging from the ceiling to convey a sufficiently convincing escapist feel to it.
The downsides were the prices and what I felt was slightly pushy service. Our tagines were approx £14 each, with couscous another £3.50. That’s poor value compared to this restaurant’s competitors. Further, our waiter, though attentive, often seemed to be pushing us to ‘super-​size’ our selections, which I wasn’t happy with.
Part of me wonders whether 3 stars would be appropriate, but the quality just about tilts it over to 4 stars.

Oh my lord it takes a lot to fill me up. This has to be the top of my list. Lamb taigene was to die for. Will be back again. Wonderful staff

Very disappointing experience. The food was tasteless at its best, i had a chicken tajine, the tomato sauce was watering and the chicken was not tender. Pity because the restaurant is nice, very attentive service. Went to a long way for nothing.

I am a bit hesitating about giving it 4 or 5*. I know its reputation, so maybe I should go for the easy 5. Mr Unilocal,where is the 4.5*?
This is a quite tiny restaurant with no more than 10 tables. The decoration is really nice and authentic, but I do not get why they use carpets as tablecloths. I was thinking maybe the Europeans use this kind of cloths for the floor, but my Tunisian boyfriend confirmed they use them the same way we do. Weird. I wonder how they wash them…
Anyway, nice arabic chandeliers, cosy round metal tables if you are having a date and being not a big restauant gives it a nice atmosphere. I would recommend it for max 6 people group and romantic dates. The arabic music is really nice, but they should place the speakers in a way where everytime they open the bar door the clients don’t get cut in their conversation. Way too loud.
Going to the food. I can say is really-​really good, my only problem were the starters, a bit tiny if you are not ordering a tajine. I ordered one, so I felt really full at the end, but if you order some fish as one of my friends did, you might need extra food.
Luckily, I ordered a Tajine el ain and I was completely full before finishing my dish. All my friends tried mine and they agreed it was amazing. The lamb was absolutely superb, tenre and falling from the bone. But why none told me there was not cous-​cous on it? Why not offering me to order it?
The con for this restaurant is the price. Some of the starters are overpriced and a tajine goes from 12 to 17£. If they drop two-​three pounds from the main dishes I bet booking a table would be impossible.
You can also smoke sisha outside during the evening.

Great little gem Food is reasonably priced, the staff fairly attentive, and the food was great. The Lamb tagine was delicious and the meat fell off the bone. The sauce was really good too, although the soft drink glasses are a little bit on the small side. The restaurant isnt big, but cozy. The toilets were clean too. I would definatly return another time to try out more of the menu.

This place has amazing tagines. Everything we ate here was tasty and I’d definitely go back!

amazing. not to everyones taste but absolutely fantastic food and atmosphere
my only negative is that in morocco it is rare to find alcohol being served with authentic Moroccon food. it should stick to its traditions if it is to obtain a reputation of moroccon authenticity

Azou in Hammersmith, elected Gordon Ramsay’s best North African Restaurant in 2010, what an absolute disappointment. I actually felt embarrassed for them!
We booked after the TV show which was in November and waited so long for: a shocking welcome, no lamb!, the slowest service ever (45 min between our arrival and our starters), no water, our bill given to the wrong table, over loud music and only 2 dishes out of 5 worth it: Brik and Tajine El Ain (with chicken).
Total £66 — AVOID

My husband and I travelled a long way to eat at Azou after having seen it on the best restaurant show. We were not disappointed! We tried three starters — the baba ganoush, the hot salad (chakcouka?) and the falafels — all were excellent and the accompanying pita bread was fresh warm and delicious. My husband remarked that it was the first time in a long time that the starters left him wanting more of the same!
For mains we had the the Tagine Romanne and the Tagine Marrakesch. WOW. Delicious. The only thing I would have liked would have been to see some vegetables in the Romanne, but perhaps that is not the authentic way yo do it? Regardless, it was a perfect blend of sweet and sour.
For dessert we had the baklava and it was the best I have ever had — not sickly sweet like one so often gets — perfection in a mouthful.
We will definitely go back again and again.
PS. If you go, try the Morrocan lager — it was halfway to an ale and very delicious as well.

Now is the time to visit Azou.
Soon it will rightly be swamped by diners. It’ll have its moment of fame deserved after the lovely staff have worked so hard to bring their passion for Tagines and Cous Cous to West London. You’ve been warned — you have until October before Azou is crowned the best local Moroccan restaurant in the UK by a very famous chef and his much watched TV program.
Azou are honourable enough not to tell everyone themselves until it’s unveiled, but I saw them filming the visit of the foul-​mouthed chef myself. He loved their food — and my friends and I did too.
It’s a comfortable small Moroccan restaurant with a small but magical menu. By far the stand-​out are the tagines — cooked for a minimum of four hours — flavoured to perfection. The lamb or chicken will fall off the bone, and ingredients like paprika, apricot and pomegranate will pleasure your tastebuds. Forget almost everything else on the menu. The tagines are amazing, as good as the price and the lovely staff.

Excellent restaurant. All of the reviews below spot on — great food, reasonable prices and friendly staff. Highly recommend the tagines.

Visited Azou in Hammersmith because it has many good reviews, from press and customers, and we weren’t disappointed. The service is excellent, the atmosphere cosy and relaxing, and the food exceptional. It is also good value so was a fantastic dining experience

I can’t remember what we paid but it would have been no more than £15 each (we wouldn’t have paid more), I had Lamb Couscous and my husband had Lamb Tagine with a side of Couscous, both were excellent and service was great, mine could have done with a little bit more flavour but this is not a complaint as I chose it. My husband can recommend the Casablanca beer.

best Moroccan food, great value, friendly service — a small gem in Hammersmith

This is an intimate little restaurant specilaising in North African Cuisine. They have a wide range of dishes from many parts of North Africa like Algeria, Morocco, Tnisa and Egypt. The tagines are a must to try and the wine list simple but not extensive.