La Khaïma Cuisine Nomade — Restaurant in Montreal

First review I've ever written, and it actually disappeared as I was about to send it, but I feel it's my moral duty as a decent human being to write something. It'll be shorter than the first time but I'm sure you'll understand the message. I've never felt as insulted as when I ate there on Saturday. Group of 20 for a birthday, $25 fixed menu and byob. What could be better than that? I think some people have figured out a legal way to steal. And I'm not kidding. First came the lentil soup, decent but not restay rant quality. Then 4 bowls of 3 different appetizer balls in each. Red, white and yellow-green. Tasteless but if faced with the choice, stick with red. Come with baskets of brown toast-like bread. I had easy access to 2 baskets near me - one was half burned (BLACK and don't tell me the waiter did not see!) And the other was frozen in the center. A 45 minute break and then the main course. I'm not even complaining about the wait, as I loved the anticipation and expected something fantastic to come out of the kitchen. Waiter brings out 3 salad-size bowls with large spoons, that remind me immediately of something out of a Soviet-Russia-winter-prison-food war movie. One had carrots-potatoes-zucchini and the kitchen didn't even bother to cut anything properly. In a stew with couscous from some big Costco box. Second bowl was supposed to be beef and lamb (with the stew and couscous again). I'd cut my arm off if there was any lamb in there. Beef was your cheap variety of chewy hard cubes, people with dentures beware. Third was chicken. With only 3 bowls of prison food for 20 people, there was tons left over and probably recycled to another table.. $500 later, we were all grateful for Fairmount bagels nearby. I come from a middle-eastern background, and have had some amazing food in Montreal. Don't get taken by someone who hung some drapes and tents and pillows in a room, pretending to be a restauranteur. He should be ashamed...

I was so excited to try a new cuisine, it was my family gathering, so I picked this restaurant and I wish I DID NOT. We walked into the restaurant, I must say the man who welcomed us when we arrived and guided us to our table was polite but we haven’t seen him throughout the meal (if I call it a meal ),

One word I have to say SHAME ON YOU! SHAME ON YOU!

28$ per head for some inedible food!! NO MENUS!!

Hibiscus drink served in a filthy plastic Jug, the soup was OK we had to go ourselves and ask for the bread.

We were supposed to get humus as a starter, but we haven't received it. No one came to check on us or clear our table (after finishing our soups).

Until now I don’t mind really but what was going to follow has made me angry and embarrassed in front of my whole family.

When the waiter brought our food, we were all shocked!!!! We were 6 of us.

One Small round plate with 3 different tiring-looking meatballs, beans and a few olives on top of some sour couscous! No class No garnish It was like last night's leftovers put back on a plate, we all had a spoon full of that food and we all stopped because it was just HORRIBLE, and it wasn’t up to the stander of any normal restaurant.

We had to leave immediately because one member of my family wasn’t feeling well after trying so-called meatballs (we were not told that we going to have meatballs instead we were told pieces of beef, also the meatballs were so hard and black).

We had to walk to the reception to pay, It is there that I saw the state of the kitchen, filthy and horrible, also saw no chef but the waiter who was actually preparing the food ( the famous couscous plate ). the food was far away to be fresh, it's a crime to call it food.

Zero hygiene!

I had to tell the waiter about our experience, and we left the food as they brought it.

we paid and left. Thanks for...

While the restaurant is nominally 'cute', the flavour, variety and quality of the dishes was lacking. 25$+ tax and tip each for three similarly bland stews of meat and vegetables with couscous.

For starters we were given pasty store-bought pita cut into wedges. They were not even heated up. To eat with the dip we were given some hummus and one other dip (I cannot recall what, but there was a little more of that. Or maybe that was the soup I am remembering?). We were nine people and had only maybe half a cup worth of hummus to split between us. We passed it around and each got a single dab before it was gone. The hummus was the highlight of the meal but we each only got maybe a tablespoon's worth each. There was also a decent but unremarkable soup (again in very small quantity).

The main course was mostly couscous with some basic root vegetables (potatoes, carrots) cooked with meat into a very generic-tasting stew. There is simply little to say about it other than it was not worth the price. I have had far better meals for less than half the cost of this.

Again, the decor is somewhat cute and could be cozy, but there was no real ambiance (there was music at half-volume that sounded as if it was emanating from either the kitchen or the other side of the restaurant, but it was intermittent and more annoying than anything), certainly not enough to make up for the low quality of the food.

We also had to ask for water half way through the meal, but this sort of thing happens, so I would not take away points for this oversight, the main point is: be warned - a relatively high price for unremarkable stew.

Also, eight of the nine people in our party had diarrhea the...