Mida’s Mediterranean Bar & Restaurant

A small restaurant with few tables for a hot drink or eating something for lunch. Far away from a French Bistrot as Qyppe comment, but fine to chilled out.
Try the paninis or best the tangine made by Mrs

Situated right at the intersection of Sheep Street and the High Street, Mida’s is probably one of the most trafficked spots in town. It’s a cute Moroccan café with a full breakfast and lunch menu.
The lattes are blisteringly hot, which after my time in Morocco is a welcome sight. I literally learned new ways to hold hot (metal) tea glasses in Fes. The bacon & egg breakfast sandwich is a simple one, but it’s cheap and tasty.
Perhaps not my favorite café, but certainly full of character and ambiance. Plus, the views of passers-​by is about as good as it gets.

There are certain
restaurants that stay in the mind, restaurants that define a town or
city. For me I only have to think of Le Dome on the Boulevard du
Montparnasse, Paris frequented by Hemingway from the 1920s
which in many ways epitomises the city of light, and to this day
serves some of the finest, and simplest of French cuisine. Then
there’s La Maison Arabé
in Marrakech that has a menu that encompasses not only Moroccan, but
also French and Italian dishes, with a breathtaking setting amongst
the rooftops of that ancient desert city. In Rome you’ll need to
search carefully for the Roof Top Terrace Restaurant of the Hotel
Artemide, on the via Nazionale, where the food and view is
extraordinarily good. When you’ve sampled some of the many cafes and
bars in that most beautiful of cities, take the train from Rome and
travel a hundred miles or so south to Sorrento. And once there you
must ensure your first meal is at L’Antica Trattoria situated on a
first floor terrace which is a family run restaurant where the
waiters are among the best you’ll find anywhere, with the food quite
simply out of this world. In
Stratford-​upon-​Avon (which is quickly becoming the restaurant capital
of Warwickshire) there’s a new restaurant that has quickly, and
rightly, taken its place amongst those that already define good
dining in the town, most notably Lambs, Vinters, Carluccio’s, The
Opposition, No. 9, Sorrento’s, and the world famous Dirty Duck.
That
new restaurant is Mida’s Mediterranean Bar and Restaurant, which is a
family run concern that sits comfortably at the top of Sheep Street,
within a paved corner opposite the 18^th
century Town Hall and the Garrick Inn, where, with outside tables and
plants, Mida has created the genuine feel of a Parisienne Brasserie,
or a southern Italian quayside trattoria, where you are guaranteed a
warm personal welcome, undoubtedly the best coffee in town, with
exquisite food and wine that has taken on the best from North Africa,
Italy, Greece, Spain and France.
Mida
Zouhou originates from Morocco, where his beloved father was a
champion racing cyclist in the 1930s who, when he retired from the
sport, set up a small, and successful, fishing fleet that became a
great inspiration for his son.
After
moving to Britain Mida spent many years as the maître
d’ of the Welcome Hotel, before running a couple of his own café
restaurants in town, most notably his hugely popular café
bar on the second floor of Fred Winter Ltd in Henley Street.
With
his latest venture, which now includes a Moroccan themed first floor
dining area, Mida has created something very special that is a very
welcome addition to Stratford’s eating and drinking experience, and a
clean well lighted place where Ernest Hemingway would have felt very
much at home.