Moroccan Hospitality Restaurant

Typically it's classified as a savory pastry.

The traditional filling of a pastilla features squab — this one ($12), like many nowadays, employs chicken — but you could understandably imagine it as the final course of the evening. Not only for the dusting of sugar and cross-hatching of cinnamon outside, or the crushed almond that figures prominently inside, but also for the warqa. This super-flaky relation of phyllo requires gentle cutting, or else you'll raise cloud of sugar and cinnamon that inevitably settles on the nearest dark clothing.

Also shown: a succulent, sweetly sauced lamb shank with prunes ($12), and the restaurant — previously, a pizzeria, as you may have guessed.

Moroccan Hospitality Restaurant
188 Salem St. (at Wolcott St.), Malden, Massachusetts
781-605-0520
(From a September 2011 visit)

Comments

[Evan D]

I thought that traditionally it was pigeon in a pastilla. Either way, delicious.

[Dave Cook]

Indeed: A squab is a young pigeon.