Review Le Riad: an authentic Moroccan restaurant have spent many happy dinners at the home of Moroccan friends in Paris, who always dazzle me with flavours new and exciting to my western palate [have also been to Moroceo's capital Rabat ‘and discovered thatthe cuisine is part of ‘a sophisticated and ancient culture, filled with the aromas I had sampled in northern Paris against a backdrop of walled cities and ding casbah alleys, When | first passed through the door of Adelaide's Le Riad restaurant, I felt immediately that I was back in Morovco, I ‘was standing on richly decorated carpets, the walls were full of illustrations and artwork and vibrant-coloured silken fabrics draped fiom above, And from the kitchen floated those delicious aromas. (Owner Jamal Khari was born in Rabat, and ‘moved with his family in the 1980s to the French Mediterranean city of Montpelier, where is father established a Morocean restaurant, fe Riad. The restaurant thrived and 16 years ago Jamal and his family moved. to Australia, setting in Adelaide. By this ‘time his father had retired and Jamal set up anew Le Riad herein the CBD, showing the ‘same care to recreating Morocco in every centimetre of space The restaurant, as in Morocco, isa family affair: Jamal and his wife Amina prepare the ‘meals and daughter Myriam takes care of the tables. They take no short-cuts like the instant couscous sold on our supermarket shelves, Real couscous takes hours of careful steaming in a couscousier, soaking up flavours from meat and vegetables stewing in the lower pot. chareval oven, Jamal is very proud that fajine earthenware pots return to the kitchen ‘You can start from a choice of soups and —_wiped clean. dips and I recommend the mixed selection ‘of the later. Then there are salads and main courses and seafood dishes from which to '$6-$8, mains around Limited Prices: soups $9, $20, Moroccan mint tea for 5 S11, ‘choose. selection of wines and alcohol. Open every night and Wednesday to Friday for lunch, Main courses include the machiwas —lamb Website with the full menu and more: Ieriadrestaurant.com.au. Le Riad is located at 314b Pulteney St, Adelaide. B or beef or chicken marinated in herbs and spices and slowly cooked in a traditional