The casbah is the oldest or original part of a North African town and Lacasbah was the first restaurant to offer Moroccan cuisine in Bristol, having started life as a café serving mint tea and sweets. Today this family-run community-based venue is an oasis of Moroccan authenticity which encompasses not only the food but also the décor, the tables and chairs, the pottery (there is a gallery which sells art work and artefacts) and the music. The creative menu includes lamb and chicken and plenty of fish as well as many vegetarian dishes and the full range of Moroccan sweets. Lacasbah operates a BYO policy, with no corkage, and on those long Bristol summer evenings, so evocative of the sights, sounds and smells of old Marrakesh, you can sit outside and sip and nibble and sing songs of family flocks of sheep.