Welcome to Harissa Café, a Mediterranean and Middle Eastern café that has already become a favorite with the locals in Astoria. Harissa offers a nice selection of breakfast items (featuring organic eggs), salads, sandwiches (on BALTHAZAR’s famous baguette bread), and even hot entrée items that captivate customers with each and every bite.

Our experienced chefs know how to bring you the best of the west, straight to your home or office or here in our cosy european style restaurant.

Not sure what to order? Try the tuna omelet, lamb kebab sandwich, or penne maison pasta–the favorite here is the Merguez* sandwich and the Couscous* of course. They are all made fresh and ready to upon ordering.

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About Merguez Merguez (pronounced /margueze/) is a red, spicy mutton- or beef-based fresh sausage in North African cuisine. It is also popular in France, Israel, the Middle East, and northern Europe. Merguez is a fresh sausage made with lamb, beef, or a mixture stuffed into a lamb-intestine casing. It is heavily spiced with chili pepper or harissa, which gives it its characteristic piquancy and red color, as well as other spices such as sumac, fennel, and garlic.
About Couscous Couscous is a North African dish of semolina traditionally served with a meat or vegetable stew spooned over it. Couscous is a staple food throughout West Africa, Sahel, France, Spain, and the Canary Islands, Portugal, Madeira, Italy (particularly in western Sicily's Province of Trapani), as well as in Turkey, Greece, Malta, Cyprus, the Middle East and India.
Tagines Tajines in Moroccan cuisine are slow-cooked stews braised at low temperatures, resulting in tender meat with aromatic vegetables and sauce. They are traditionally cooked in the tajine pot, whose cover has a knob-like handle at its top to facilitate removal. While simmering, the cover can be lifted off without the aid of a mitten, enabling the cook to inspect the main ingredients, add vegetables, mix the contents, or add additional braising liquid.