Casa La Femme

Atmosphere is great, pleased my lady because someone felt that this place was a top romantic spot in NYC. Figured why not give it a try. Place is nice, the decor is amazing, the atmosphere is beautiful. Definitely a date night spot. The food and the service ehhhhhh, not so good. We sat outside and felt forgotten, the waiter checked on us once, then we got a new waitress, so who knows what was going on.  What was known is that the food, for the price was not that great. No flavor, very bland. The dessert we ordered was good though. So in the end not so worth the whiskey 🥃

I STRONGLY DO NOT RECOMMEND IT!!!

1. THIS IS NOT EGYPTIAN CUISINE.
as it was stated in the restaurant website.

2. QUALITY.
The food quality is the worst! I don't feel well right after we leave the restaurant, and today is not the best day either.

3. TASTE QUALITIES OF DISHES.
The taste of the dishes was also tasteless. We ordered:
- Hamam Mahshi specialties $52
Egyptian pigeons stuffed with jasmine rice were served with milk soup” (it was the most expensive plate), but the meat and rice were tasteless at all, I sure can say it was BAD!
- Lavash (3 pieces) $ 6 (it was warmed bread, not freshly made).
- Humus
Mashed chickpeas with the addition of Harris, $12 (it was such a small mini-bowl that you might not find it in my photos.

4. PRICE.
The price is expensive!

5. BELLY DANCE.
The restaurant's page states that belly dancing is held from 8:00 to 10:30 pm. We arrived at 9.35, but there was no dance performance, the waiter said that the dancer had already finished, but at 10.30 pm she would dance the next dance. But no one is dancing at 10.30 pm! We asked the receptionist at 10.50, and she looked at her watch and went to ask someone, after she said there would be a performance inside in 10 minutes, we went in, and this performance was less than 2 minutes!!!
After that, we ended our evening there, in a bad place and feelings.

Don't make the same mistake! Don't go there! It doesn't pay off at all.

The price of the photos they take is $20!

The place has exceptional service. Everyone’s super kind and makes you feel comfortable. The food is also great. However, it is very expensive considering how small the portions are.

I wanted to try this place for a long time, and on Mother’s Day, I told my boys that’s where you taking me)))
It is absolutely beautiful restaurant, the interior design is very very pretty.
Unfortunately they served only Mother’s Day special menu, and if you wanted anything else, than they won’t do any substitutions, but would make whatever you wanted on top of the special, that was a bummer;(((. For example if we didn’t want to have the salad from the special,, which was just a green salad ( just leaves) and wanted to swap it
for a Greek salad, they told us that we can’t swap it, we will gat that Arugula salad anyway and would need to pay extra for a Greek salad. So that green salad was a joke - very little portion size.  The appetizer - mezza, was not enough for 4 people for sure.
And it took quite a long time for food to arrive.
Our server seems to be in a rush all the time.
So when the food came , our lamb chops were Rare, instead of Medium Rare . So we tried to get our waiter for that, waited a long long time, nobody couldn’t find him. After probably half an hour , We were lucky that the manager came and was super polite and listened to our concern and took the plates back to cook the chops better. It took a while, but when they brought them, they were just great.
So if it wasn’t for manager , I would probably give that restaurant a 1 star.
I also think it’s overpriced ((
The manager definitely deserves 10 stars ⭐️

We went there for my boyfriends birthday. The place is sooooo cute! We loved the food, cocktails and decor.
We’ll definitely be back, this time I’ll try to get the spot outdoors.

All food is Halal. We have live belly dancing on some nights. Alcohol is served.

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