{"id":220,"date":"2007-10-28T10:11:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T10:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2007-10-28T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T10:11:19","slug":"dinner-at-alhambra-palace-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2007\/10\/28\/dinner-at-alhambra-palace-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner at Alhambra Palace Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-220\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alhambrapalacerestaurant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alhambra Palace Restaurant<\/a> is a good Morrocan restaurant on Randolph Street.<\/p>\n<p>1240 W. Randolph, Chicago, IL &#8211; (312) 666-9555<\/p>\n<p>We went to the antique market on Randolph and went by this restaurant on the way there.  You can&#8217;t miss the facade &#8211; its a bad takeoff of the Arabian Nights.  Aviva had wanted to try this place for a while so we decided to eat there after the market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"colorbox-220\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.mac.com\/purplehayz\/iblog\/Personal\/E20071028101110\/Media\/AlhambraRestFront.jpg?resize=250%2C143\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AlhambraRestFront.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"143\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The food was decidedly good &#8211; Aviva had the dolmeh (stuffed grape leaves) and chicken tarine, and I had the falafel and spiced lamb tarine.  The grape leaves weren&#8217;t soaked in brine and were soft and tasty.  The falafel was perhaps the best I&#8217;ve ever had, crispy and not oily on the outside and soft and fluffy inside, with a slight hint of cinnamon.  Tarine is the name of a ceramic cooking pot that&#8217;s got a conical top with a hole in it; the food is placed inside and then slow cooked.  The chicken was lightly seasoned, but the lamb was outrageous &#8211; I could pull it apart with a fork only, and the spices were wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant is actually not the main attraction &#8211; they have a large (perhaps seating 500 &#8211; 1000 people on two levels) auditorium in back where they have belly and flamenco dancing.  They rent hookahs at $20.<\/p>\n<p>It was expensive.  But, the portions were large (we took some home) and the food was good.  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