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Situated in Manhattan’s northernmost neighborhood, Park Terrace Bistro offers Inwood residents an urbane take on Moroccan cuisine. Casablanca-born Karim Bouskou (who worked front-of-the-house at Le Bernardin and Oceana) and his wife and hospitality veteran Natalie Weiss have created an inviting space, with white-and-salmon-colored tiles, rust-painted walls and earth-toned rugs used as wall hangings. Wood tables are paired with metal chairs covered by festive orange-and-pink seat cushions, and antique brass lamps hang above the copper-topped bar. The pair’s kitchen adheres to traditional North African spicing, but borrows techniques and dishes from across the Levant, as well as France. Tender, braised lamb shank comes in a traditional conical ceramic tajine, with its still-bubbling saffron, cumin, and turmeric-scented sauce enriched, and sweetly balanced, by caramelized onions, raisins, prunes, and toasted almonds. The 15th-Century Couscous is more innovative, featuring shrimp and chubby scallops, as opposed to meat, atop a fluffy mound of saffron-seasoned grain that’s dotted with cranberries and apricot cubes—it yields delicious results. — Michael Anstendig

Mediterranean platter, $12.95; braised lamb shank tagine, $21.95; 15th Century Couscous, $23.95