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Le Marrakchi
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POPULAR DISHES
The Most Popular Moroccan Dishes — and Where to Eat Them
Tagine, couscous, pastilla and the sizzling street food of Jemaa el-Fna. A guide to Marrakech's most-loved dishes and the restaurants, riads and stalls that cook them best.
10 essential dishes42 places to eat
Where to Eat Tagine in Marrakech
The clay-pot king of Moroccan cooking. These sit-down restaurants and riads slow-cook lamb, chicken and vegetable tagines to melting tenderness — the dish every first-time visitor comes for.
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Un Dejeuner a Marrakech
4.5Kasbah
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Gastro MK at Maison MK
3.5Medina
Restaurant
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L'Mida
3.5Medina
Restaurant
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Riad Kaiss
3.5Riad Zitoun
Restaurant
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Cafe Arabe
4.5Mouassine
Restaurant
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Le Jardin
4.5Medina
Restaurant
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Chez Chegrouni
4.5Medina
Restaurant
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Comptoir Darna
3.5Hivernage
Restaurant
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Dar Moha
3.5Medina
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Cafe Clock
3.5Kasbah
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Dar Rhizlane
4.5Palmeraie
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Couscous — the Friday Feast
Traditionally served after Friday prayers, couscous is a whole ritual: steamed semolina, seven vegetables and tender meat shared from one platter. These kitchens do it the old way.
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Si Said Restaurant
3.5Mellah
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El Fenn Restaurant and Rooftop Bar
3.5Medina
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Riad Monceau
3.5Riad Zitoun
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Atlas Grill House
4.5Gueliz
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La Kasbah d'Ourika
4.5Route de l'Ourika
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Sahbi Sahbi
3.5Gueliz
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Douiria Cuisine
4.5Mellah
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La Pause
3.5Route de l'Ourika
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Al Baraka
4.5Medina
Restaurant
Pastilla — the Sweet-Savoury Pie
Marrakech's most festive dish: layers of paper-thin warqa pastry around pigeon or chicken, almonds and cinnamon, finished with icing sugar. Find it at the city's fine-dining tables and grand riads.
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MK Marrakech (Maison MK)
4.5Riad Zitoun
Fine Dining
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Les Deux Tours
3.5Palmeraie
Fine Dining
Narjis
3.5Route de Fès
Fine Dining
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Palais Gharnata
3.5Riad Zitoun
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Riad 72 Restaurant
3.5Bab Doukkala
Fine Dining
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Riad El Cadi Restaurant
3.5Medina
Fine Dining
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La Grande Table Marocaine
3.5Hivernage
Fine Dining
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Pure House Marrakech
3.5Medina
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La Sultana Restaurant
4.5Riad Zitoun
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Street Food Classics
The other half of the story: msemen off the griddle, steaming bowls of harira, snail soup and charcoal-grilled brochettes around Jemaa el-Fna and the souks — a few dirhams for the real thing.
Sfenj Sidi Mbarek
4.5Medina
Street Food
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Istanbul Kebab House
3.5Gueliz
Street Food
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Chez Hassan (Friday Couscous)
4.5Medina
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L'Atelier Merguez Véritable
3.5Gueliz
Street Food
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Stall 1 (Aicha)
3.5Medina
Street Food
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Snack Amine
4.5Gueliz
Street Food
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Jemaa el-Fna Food Stalls
3.5Medina
Street Food
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La Table du Souk
3.5Bab Doukkala
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Jemaa el-Fna Harira Stalls
3.5Medina
Street Food
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Chez Omar
4.5Medina
Street Food
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Snack Sindibad
4.5Medina
Street Food
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Baba Yaura
3.5Gueliz
Street Food
The Essential Moroccan Dishes
New to Moroccan food? Start here. These ten dishes turn up again and again across Marrakech's tables — know them and you can order like a local.
Tagine
The slow-cooked stew that shares its name with the conical clay pot it steams in — lamb with prunes, chicken with preserved lemon and olives, or vegetables, all melting-tender.
Couscous
Steamed semolina crowned with seven vegetables and tender meat, traditionally the Friday dish shared from one great platter.
Pastilla
A sweet-savoury pie of flaky warqa pastry layered with pigeon or chicken, almonds and cinnamon, dusted with icing sugar — festive and unforgettable.
Harira
A hearty tomato, lentil and chickpea soup thickened with herbs and flour — the classic break-fast bowl during Ramadan, served year-round with dates.
Tanjia
Marrakech's signature dish: beef or lamb sealed with spices in an urn-shaped clay pot and cooked for hours in the embers of the hammam furnace.
Mechoui
Whole lamb slow-roasted until it falls off the bone, seasoned simply with salt and cumin — carved to order at medina stalls come midday.
Zaalouk
A smoky cooked salad of eggplant and tomato mashed with garlic, cumin and olive oil — one of the small dishes that open a Moroccan meal, scooped up with bread.
Msemen
Flaky square griddle bread, folded and pan-fried until golden — eaten warm at breakfast with honey and mint tea, or wrapped around a savoury filling.
Rfissa
Shredded msemen or day-old bread soaked in a lentil and chicken broth perfumed with fenugreek and ras el hanout — comfort food served at celebrations.
Bissara
A silky fava-bean soup drizzled with olive oil, cumin and a dusting of paprika — a warming winter breakfast sold from medina stalls at dawn.