Top Restaurants in Marrakech

Le Restaurant

In the forties, La Maison Arabe was a prestigious restaurant where eminent people visiting Marrakech dined. It is now a hotel whose restaurant, renamed with simplicity, honors its glorious past. An all-female staff of chefs excel in Moroccan gastronomic arts, offering a great choice of tajines, delicious sweet or salted basteeya, and an awe-inspiring orange soup, all to be enjoyed under a grand ceiling inspired by an Iranian mosque. If you like your meal, attend a cooking workshop at the hotel and learn the recipe!

Catanzaro

Copious and delicious: what more could you ask of a restaurant's cuisine? Well, a warm atmosphere, faultless service and reasonable prices are some other assets of this place, which has long enjoyed a strong reputation. Needless to say, reservations are advised for lunch and for dinner if you intend to get a seat in this popular Italian restaurant!

Crystal

Pacha Marrakech nightclub's restaurant, Crystal, is undoubtedly worth the detour. Not only for its decor, a chic dining room in an off-white colonial art-deco style, but also for its Mediterranean cuisine, where Moroccan nouvelle cuisine dishes, such as Tartare de Saumon à la Chermoula, share the menu with European specialties, such as Magret De Canard à l'Anis Étoilé. Save a spot for the desserts, for they are as delicious as they are original. It's also possible to dine poolside.

Ksar Char Bagh

This restaurant benefits from the Moorish-inspired design scheme of its mother-hotel, the luxurious Ksar Char-Bagh. The French chef, rated in the Michelin Guide, concocts French cuisine blended with worldly flavors. Remember to make a reservation.

Dar Yacout

This grand restaurant has nothing more to prove. For that matter, some people consider it the best restaurant in Marrakech, not only for its menu, a true jewel of Moroccan haute cuisine, but also for its exceptional setting. Housed in a wonderful Riad blessed with a beautiful patio and a terrace with an amazing view, it brings together all the splendor of an Arab palace. Don't forget to make a reservation, and take your time with the enormous beverage list.

La Trattoria

The Italian restaurant La Trattoria is well-known in Marrakech for the quality of its cuisine made with local products. It occupies a beautiful and richly-decorated villa dating from the early 20th century, and boasting a lovely swimming pool area. Besides the delicious dishes such as Osso Bucco alla Milanese, a great Entrecôte Pizzaiola and many pasta courses, the selection of French, Italian and Moroccan wines and champagnes is wonderful.

Dar Essalam

Of all the magnificent rooms of this restaurant, (which occupies a sumptuously-renovated 17th-century palace), the Kadim room will seem most familiar to moviephiles, for it was here that the restaurant scene of Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much was shot! Long adored by stars visiting Marrakech, the Dar Essalam combines the refinement of Moroccan gastronomy with 1001 Nights-inspired decor, where musicians and dancers perform for you while you dine.

Ksar El Hamra

Located between Jemaâ El Fna Square and the Palais El Badi, this is the perfect place to dine after visiting the nearby Dar Si Said museum and the Palais de la Bahia. Ksar El Hamra offers the splendors of a former Arabo-Andalous palace, with its sculpted plaster casts, its cedar woodwork, its zellijs and its musicians and dancers. It's also beloved for its vast and splendid verdant patio.

Dar Fez

Nestled in a 17th-century Riad with a charming patio, this welcoming restaurant serves traditional flavors of the city of Fez, copious and authentic, though a little bit expensive. A gnaoua band accompanies the meal.

Stylia

Stylia combines a sumptuous setting with the subtlty of Moroccan cuisine. Located in the Medina, it occupies a former palace from the 15th century that was brilliantly renovated and turned into a restaurant in 1982. Against a background of Arabic music runs a bygone luxury: oriental carpets, ancient furniture and sophisticated tableware, walls adorned with zelliges and sculpted stuccos, rose petals on the tables and in the water of the fountains. At Stylia, the chefs are women and their cuisine is made by the book of the Morrocan gastronomy. Indulge yourself the marvelous Pigeon and Almond Basteeya or the Lamb and Zucchini Flavored with Cinnamon - delicious! This place has seasonal timings so call for further details.