Summer Healing Moon
Bernie Sanders we missed. The Mataam Fez serves 5 course meals, lots of hand washing, belly dancing and a generous amount of time between each course. Most of the food was very good, all eaten by hand, thus the handwashing, though the lamb brochette was overcooked.
The meal began with a salad and palate cleanser. The palate cleanser was shredded carrot with raisins in a slightly tart sauce. The salad had beets, spicy carrots, spinach, chopped tomatoes and onions and spiced potatoes all in individual portions. The third dish was phylo dough covered with powdered sugar and filled with a meat, couscous, spice mixture. Very tasty. The entree, mine lamb on a bed of pilaf with raisins and Kate’s shrimp in a delicate sauce, came next. After a long wait, during which the belly dancing happened, came mint tea, rose water for our hands and face, then a plate of cut fruit.
Across the way from us a toddler, a girl, got very involved with the belly dancing, swaying and twirling as the woman, older, took her out into the middle of the room to share the dance. This was a toddler friendly environment since guests sat either on pillows or hassocks at a low table.
We decided this was my father’s day meal out and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Until we had to get up from that position. But we managed.
