So it might surprise you that the mezcal program at Café Fés appears to be one of the deepest in Brooklyn, with a whole agave-based slate of margaritas, specialty drinks, and three-shot flights. There’s nothing compromised, nothing rushed.” “Everything is done the way it was when I was growing up. “The food is authentic,” Eljaouhari tells Brooklyn Magazine. So, when it comes to classic Moroccan cooking, the place comes correct. The owner and chef Raduone Eljaouhari, who runs the place with his wife Fatima, was born and raised in that North African nation-and, when he opened his first restaurant here in New York City back in 2003, Zerza in the East Village, he brought over his mother to help him develop the dishes.
The Moroccan menu at the month-old Café Fés on Church Avenue arrives at your table with strong bona fides.
