Black Betty is delicious. I love their mezze--especially the grilled calamari. Two people can easily share the 6 mezze as a meal. it is huge! as is the paella made with couscous instead of rice. it has a good spicyness and tons of seafood in it. The keylime pie is also very tasty. And every time I went I had friendly and prompt wait service. And the bar makes the best mojito.

The food is great, especially the salads.
unfortunatly a very undfriendly staff and more unreliable delievery person make it hard to order for delivery. you never know if the driver or the staff is in the mood to delivier.

a shame but what can you do, spend your money on place's where you at least know they deliver when you want !!!

This place is straight ass. I have never walked into a place in the 'hood and been so horrified, (well maybe at the Royal Oak), that I had to walk out. The place is just DIRTY. Gross, like the kind of dirt you cannot get out. The owner swaggled over to us, and I could smell his greezy physique from down the block! Here's an idea, use soap, not cologne to bath in! Nasty and dirty.

Food is great. Service is okay.

Delivery range seems to be at the the whim of the staff on a given day rather than what is listed on the restaurant's site.

yes they hire some sour rude hipster/rokabilly girls there. what's up with that? if you don't like your job, find another one

Good food with mediocre service. The focus seems to be Moroccan food so stick with the cous cous and tagine. The falafel was... interesting, and probably best to avoid.

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Hah!

The food at Black Betty sucks and the draft beer tastes like they haven't cleaned their keg lines since the Dinkins administration.

Never tried the food, but I have done coke in the bathroom. And watch out for the skeezy guys.

I've always liked the food here, but the waitress (read-- the SAME waitress every time I go) is snotty, unhelpful, thinks she is too good to be there and lazy. There were two dirty tables when we last went, and three when we left. Save your eating out for somewhere else. Its really only worth its delivery.

So I was pretty excited to order from this place cuz I was in the middle of a large project at home. I was told that their delivery rider had a flat and wasn't delivering to our area (11 blocks away!!!).

instead of being prepared for their job with a spare tube for the flat, they opted to not serve their customers.

Apparently, if you live 11 blocks away, you get a $3dollar surcharge for delivery (that's not a tip guarantee, it's a motivator for them to DO their actual job).

I thought the reason you rode a bike for delivery, is cuz your motivated enough to do your job and ride your bike...black betty's obviously the exception cuz they hire lazy-ass riders who can't/won't fix their own flats, and they probably get shit handed to them on silver platters too.

The chicken tagine is consistently delicious - and there is enough to share. Subtly spicy with a generous helping of artichokes. Service is friendly.