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Riad Monceau
3.5Riad Zitoun
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MOROCCAN CUISINE
Traditional Moroccan Food in Marrakech
From slow-cooked tagine and fragrant couscous to the sizzling grills of the medina, explore the dishes that define Moroccan cooking — and the restaurants and stalls that do them best.
24 traditional restaurants12 street food9 essential dishes
Traditional Moroccan Restaurants
Sit-down riads, courtyards and rooftops serving the classics — tagine, couscous, pastilla and mechoui — the way they have been cooked for generations.
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La Grande Table Marocaine
3.5Hivernage
Fine Dining
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Dar Rhizlane
4.5Palmeraie
Restaurant
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La Pause
3.5Route de l'Ourika
Restaurant
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Si Said Restaurant
3.5Mellah
Restaurant
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La Kasbah d'Ourika
4.5Route de l'Ourika
Restaurant
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Le Jardin Secret Cafe
3.5Mouassine
Café
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Cafe 2000
3.5Gueliz
Café
Dar Doukkala Cafe
3.5Bab Doukkala
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Douiria Cuisine
4.5Mellah
Restaurant
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Zwin Zwin Cafe
3.5Medina
Café
Atlas Grill House
4.5Gueliz
Restaurant
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Cafe Clock
3.5Kasbah
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Riad Kaiss
3.5Riad Zitoun
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Cafe Arabe
4.5Mouassine
Restaurant
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L'Mida
3.5Medina
Restaurant
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Le Jardin
4.5Medina
Restaurant
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Un Dejeuner a Marrakech
4.5Kasbah
Restaurant
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Chez Chegrouni
4.5Medina
Restaurant
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Le Marrakchi
3.5Medina
Restaurant
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Gastro MK at Maison MK
3.5Medina
Restaurant
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Comptoir Darna
3.5Hivernage
Restaurant
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Dar Moha
3.5Medina
Restaurant
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Sahbi Sahbi
3.5Gueliz
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Moroccan Street Food
The other half of Marrakech's food story: grills, stalls and hole-in-the-wall spots around Jemaa el-Fna and the souks, where a few dirhams buy a plate of the real thing.
Sfenj Sidi Mbarek
4.5Medina
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Baba Yaura
3.5Gueliz
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Chez Omar
4.5Medina
Street Food
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L'Atelier Merguez Véritable
3.5Gueliz
Street Food
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Chez Hassan (Friday Couscous)
4.5Medina
Restaurant
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Snack Amine
4.5Gueliz
Street Food
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Jemaa el-Fna Food Stalls
3.5Medina
Street Food
Jemaa el-Fna Harira Stalls
3.5Medina
Street Food
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Stall 1 (Aicha)
3.5Medina
Street Food
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La Table du Souk
3.5Bab Doukkala
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Snack Sindibad
4.5Medina
Street Food
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JustBeldi
3.5Gueliz
Street Food
About Moroccan Cuisine
Moroccan cooking is built on slow heat, warm spice and generous sharing. These are the dishes you will meet again and again across Marrakech's tables.
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.
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.
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.