We were visiting friends in Canby, OR and they said that we had to go to Dar Essalam and it definitely lived up to the hype. It is a very traditional restaurant and it if a whole experience. They do not serve alcohol here, but you can choose between a few different teas, milk, water, or soft drinks. I would highly recommend the fresh minted green tea. It is a little sweeter than you would expect, and it is delicious hot or cold. We were with a group of seven and everyone was able to find something on the menu they liked including the kids! My husband and I shared the kabob platter and the lamb shank tajin, and they were both excellent. My husband said it was the best lamb shank he has ever had.The food is brought out in different courses, and we ended up being there for about two hours. The children we were with ordered from the kids' menu and they platted their food to look like little bears. It was so cute and unexpected! We wanted to get the baklava for dessert but they were out so we got flan instead. The flan was just okay, but it might not be my thing anyway. If you are in the Wilsonville area, I absolutely recommend going to Dar Essalam!Kid-friendliness: They have a great kids menu and even plate the food to look like a bear! I definitely would say this is a child friendly restaurant.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Saffron Rice, Kabobs, Lentil Soup, Lamb Shank, Tajine Lamb or Cornish Hen or Beef Oxtail with Bread
Nada Wahba
The food was great, but I was shocked that they are serving non halal beef there. Be careful and ask if your meal contains any non halal food because no one warned me when I ordered sultan kabob feast and I knew by chance when I received my plate by one of my colleagues. I asked them to change the un-halal beef by something else and they did it right away.Other than that everything was awesome.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Jorge Saucedo
Excellent place to taste good Moroccan food, the food is delicious with a very balanced spice seasoning, the pita bread is excellent and you definitely have to try the Moroccan flan, and the cold mint tea with a touch of flower of chance: NOTE the prices of the dishes are between 13 and 28 dollars and the dishes are not very large or exaggerated, but without a doubt different and very rich flavors.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Andres Lucero
Food was delicious! Hamza gave us outstanding service. The atmosphere and music is amazing, overall a great spot to dine in
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Andrea Evans
What an amazing meal! The Tagine meals were so fun to have so many choices of proteins and sauces! The hummus and pita are excellent as well. Five Star all the way, this is an excellent cultural dining experience.
Been going here for a long time and never had a bad meal! Excellent overall!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tajine Lamb or Cornish Hen or Beef Oxtail with Bread
Alex Gonzales
Fabulous food, with excellent flavor, texture and taste, paired with superior service, & likely the best dessert I’ve ever had. I’ve been here more than once - every time they knock it out of the park.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Casablanca Fruit Bastilla - Dar Essalam's Signature Dessert, Lunch Lamb Kabobs, Baklava, Moroccan Flan, Sultan Kabob Feast
Babs Babs
If you want to eat 100% Moroccan, forget it.... However, they are simply super welcoming, helpful, and very friendly.... Unfortunately, the cuisine does not follow suit. However, nothing surprising given the products in the US....
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 5
mehta neel
Food was great with top notch service and perfect ambience. We will definitely visit again.We ordered chicken dinner salad and chocolate brewat.
Absolutely amazing place, we came from Seattle with some business, will definitely stop every time to eat. RECCOMENDED.Kid-friendliness: Very nice
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tajine Lamb or Cornish Hen or Beef Oxtail with Bread, Casablanca Fruit Bastilla - Dar Essalam's Signature Dessert, Kabobs
Sushmita Kadam
I can suggest a perfect lunch menu for 2 for you guys! We started by having hummus on pita which was Delicious ! Main entrees included chicken Kabobs with house salad and lamb kabobs with chilled couscous salad. I loved the way the lamb was marinated and cooked! The house salad was a perfect balance of sweet and sour! Also don’t forget to get pitas! Finish off your lunch with Moroccan flan. This is a must have! I repeat, this is a must have dish ?????
I will start by saying that I don’t write reviews, but this place was Awful !! It was my mother‘s Birthday. We were excited to go here we love Moroccan food but what an incredible disappointment! Terrible service, awful food everything was overcooked and dry and cold. The hummus tasted like sweet, sugary something but it definitely wasn’t authentic hummus . They didn’t bring any appetizer plates. The restaurant was freezing cold. The people working there were rude and of no help to people that were there for the first time. The menu was confusing. They had no suggestions of what we should try. I asked for a side of sauce and they said no we can’t do that unless you order a specific item that comes with the sauce. It took forever to get our food. I have no idea why this place has five star reviews unless they paid these people. We had had 11 people in our party, and everybody agreed it was a horrible experience and terrible food. I will never go back and it’s way overpriced! $400 wasted! I make better kebabs and hummus at home and I’m Italian. If I could give zero stars, I would! I know people will think well why didn’t you complain or send your food back but if you would’ve been there, you would understand why we just wanted to get out of there.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
John Cisneros
Sultans kabab feast was amazing!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Karl W
It was a fun dining experience. The food is very good. This is definitely something a little more old school. Full dinner comes with appetizers, lentil soup, pickled veggies, and then your selected main course. They even had rose water to wash your hands at the end of dinner. Very fun.Vegetarian options: Only a couple of options.
We were visiting friends in Canby, OR and they said that we had to go to Dar Essalam and it definitely lived up to the hype. It is a very traditional restaurant and it if a whole experience. They do not serve alcohol here, but you can choose between a few different teas, milk, water, or soft drinks. I would highly recommend the fresh minted green tea. It is a little sweeter than you would expect, and it is delicious hot or cold. We were with a group of seven and everyone was able to find something on the menu they liked including the kids! My husband and I shared the kabob platter and the lamb shank tajin, and they were both excellent. My husband said it was the best lamb shank he has ever had.The food is brought out in different courses, and we ended up being there for about two hours. The children we were with ordered from the kids' menu and they platted their food to look like little bears. It was so cute and unexpected! We wanted to get the baklava for dessert but they were out so we got flan instead. The flan was just okay, but it might not be my thing anyway. If you are in the Wilsonville area, I absolutely recommend going to Dar Essalam!Kid-friendliness: They have a great kids menu and even plate the food to look like a bear! I definitely would say this is a child friendly restaurant.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Saffron Rice, Kabobs, Lentil Soup, Lamb Shank, Tajine Lamb or Cornish Hen or Beef Oxtail with Bread
The food was great, but I was shocked that they are serving non halal beef there. Be careful and ask if your meal contains any non halal food because no one warned me when I ordered sultan kabob feast and I knew by chance when I received my plate by one of my colleagues. I asked them to change the un-halal beef by something else and they did it right away.Other than that everything was awesome.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Excellent place to taste good Moroccan food, the food is delicious with a very balanced spice seasoning, the pita bread is excellent and you definitely have to try the Moroccan flan, and the cold mint tea with a touch of flower of chance: NOTE the prices of the dishes are between 13 and 28 dollars and the dishes are not very large or exaggerated, but without a doubt different and very rich flavors.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food was delicious! Hamza gave us outstanding service. The atmosphere and music is amazing, overall a great spot to dine in
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
What an amazing meal! The Tagine meals were so fun to have so many choices of proteins and sauces! The hummus and pita are excellent as well. Five Star all the way, this is an excellent cultural dining experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Hummus Plate, Cornish Hen, Saffron Rice, Lamb Shank, Hummus and Pita
Amazing food, great flavor & great atmosphere.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sultan Kabob Feast
Been going here for a long time and never had a bad meal! Excellent overall!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tajine Lamb or Cornish Hen or Beef Oxtail with Bread
Fabulous food, with excellent flavor, texture and taste, paired with superior service, & likely the best dessert I’ve ever had. I’ve been here more than once - every time they knock it out of the park.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Casablanca Fruit Bastilla - Dar Essalam's Signature Dessert, Lunch Lamb Kabobs, Baklava, Moroccan Flan, Sultan Kabob Feast
If you want to eat 100% Moroccan, forget it.... However, they are simply super welcoming, helpful, and very friendly.... Unfortunately, the cuisine does not follow suit. However, nothing surprising given the products in the US....
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 5
Food was great with top notch service and perfect ambience. We will definitely visit again.We ordered chicken dinner salad and chocolate brewat.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Lunch Lamb Kabobs
Restaurantji Recommends
Absolutely amazing place, we came from Seattle with some business, will definitely stop every time to eat. RECCOMENDED.Kid-friendliness: Very nice
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tajine Lamb or Cornish Hen or Beef Oxtail with Bread, Casablanca Fruit Bastilla - Dar Essalam's Signature Dessert, Kabobs
I can suggest a perfect lunch menu for 2 for you guys! We started by having hummus on pita which was Delicious ! Main entrees included chicken Kabobs with house salad and lamb kabobs with chilled couscous salad. I loved the way the lamb was marinated and cooked! The house salad was a perfect balance of sweet and sour! Also don’t forget to get pitas! Finish off your lunch with Moroccan flan. This is a must have! I repeat, this is a must have dish ?????
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Hummus Plate, Chicken Kabobs, Pita, Kabobs, Moroccan Flan, Lamb Kabobs
I will start by saying that I don’t write reviews, but this place was Awful !! It was my mother‘s Birthday. We were excited to go here we love Moroccan food but what an incredible disappointment! Terrible service, awful food everything was overcooked and dry and cold. The hummus tasted like sweet, sugary something but it definitely wasn’t authentic hummus . They didn’t bring any appetizer plates. The restaurant was freezing cold. The people working there were rude and of no help to people that were there for the first time. The menu was confusing. They had no suggestions of what we should try. I asked for a side of sauce and they said no we can’t do that unless you order a specific item that comes with the sauce. It took forever to get our food. I have no idea why this place has five star reviews unless they paid these people. We had had 11 people in our party, and everybody agreed it was a horrible experience and terrible food. I will never go back and it’s way overpriced! $400 wasted! I make better kebabs and hummus at home and I’m Italian. If I could give zero stars, I would! I know people will think well why didn’t you complain or send your food back but if you would’ve been there, you would understand why we just wanted to get out of there.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Sultans kabab feast was amazing!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
It was a fun dining experience. The food is very good. This is definitely something a little more old school. Full dinner comes with appetizers, lentil soup, pickled veggies, and then your selected main course. They even had rose water to wash your hands at the end of dinner. Very fun.Vegetarian options: Only a couple of options.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Hummus Plate, Kabobs, Lentil Soup, Vegetarian Couscous