Goat in the Tree — Restaurant in Scotland

The restaurant is small but very busy; we visited at 7.45pm on a Tuesday, and every table was occupied until the restaurant closed. I would highly recommend booking ahead or risk disappointment

Having been to Morocco a few years back and falling in love with the country and cuisine, we realised it was difficult to find a restaurant in Scotland that served authentic Moroccan cuisine. When planning a trip to Glasgow, we booked a table after looking over the menu and seeing that pastillas were on offer; my husband practically lived on this dish during our holiday, but unfortunately these have proved impossible for us to find in Scotland and a difficult dish to master making at home. Overall our visit here was a no brainer.

The food was absolutely incredible and seasoned impeccably. The pastilla, which after years of waiting had a lot to live up to, was absolutely incredible. We also had the Merguez, lamb tagine, Moroccan chicken, baklava, and m'semmen; all were wonderful and we'd forgotten what a great tagine should taste like. In total the meal came to around £51 which I think is more than reasonable for three courses for two people in 2024.

Due to the exceptional quality of the meal, we spoke to the waitress when she was clearing our table (I think her name was Kirsty? - she was really lovely!) and spoke about how we had tried to find pastillas in Scotland and how very much we had enjoyed our food. When the time came to pay, she had passed our praise on to the chef and he came out to thank us personally with, to my husband's joy, a pastilla for us to take home.

This was a complete surprise and was appreciated very much by us. All of the staff care deeply about their restaurant and the experience of their guests, and all were absolutely lovely. We are still stunned by their generosity and kindness. We will definitely be back when we are...

We arrived at 5:50pm(we reserved a table at 6pm) looking forward to a delicious meal and meeting up with family for a catch-up, to be told our table wasn't ready please come back at 6. OK, we were early, so that was our fault and the place is tiny so they can't accommodate people standing about... but it should have rung alarm bells of what was to come... We ordered the sharing platter to start which was delicious, followed by the goat tagine and Moroccan chicken, both dishes were hearty if a touch bland, but tasty nonetheless. You're possibly wondering, so why the low score? Well, here it comes... We were looking forward to dessert( the cheesecake reviews were awesome) , when we eventually caught the server's eye to ask for the dessert menu we were told, we don't have time to have a dessert as the next diners were due in at 7:45.... it was now 7:37pm.WHAT???? I appreciate the place is tiny, but after spending close to £100( in total) for food ( party of 3) I didn't see that coming!! I've never been hoofed out of a restaurant to make way for the"next round of diners" There was no mention of a 105 minute dining curfew when we booked online, or indeed when we eventually got to our table. To say we were stunned was an understatement. If we wanted a fast food type experience we would have gone elsewhere. We ordered the desserts to go, received then in a paperbag and went home feeling slightly disgruntled.... Not the...

A nice wee place with friendly service. I ordered vegetable tagine and although not unpleasant the food was also not great - it was somewhat undercooked for tagine with a lot of liquid broth and the potato and carrot having a bit of bite to them (personally I prefer tagine to have been cooked slow and low for a long time until the vegetables are super tender). My partner and I both found the food to be quite bland for Moroccan food, sweet and mostly just tasting like stock rather than the complex and fragrant layers of flavour we’d expect. We’re aware that after multiple trips to Morocco we’ve been spoiled for excellent tagine dishes and are likely harsh judges. This place is fine and appreciated in Glasgow where there is a lack of good Moroccan restaurants but I wouldn’t choose to...