Where to eat across Morocco
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Rabat
Where to eat in Rabat
Street food · 10-50 MAD
Best Street Food in Rabat — The Medina and Beyond
Rabat's street food is the relaxed, everyday kind you'd expect of a capital that stays low-key: sandwich counters and grills in the medina, snail carts, msemmen griddles and fresh Atlantic sardines. It is cheap, unhurried and easy to graze.
Read guide Budget Moroccan · 10-45 MAD
Cheap Eats in Rabat — Budget Food in the Capital
Rabat is a capital of civil servants and students, and it eats cheaply to match. The medina's sandwich counters, soup stalls and small canteens, plus the university-district lunch spots, serve filling Moroccan food for a handful of dirhams.
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Moroccan & French breakfast · 20-90 MAD
Best Breakfast in Rabat — Riverside Cafés and Moroccan Mornings
Rabat starts the day gently: Moroccan griddle breads and honey, French-style pastries in the ville nouvelle, and mint tea at the famous café in the Kasbah des Oudayas overlooking the river mouth. It is a capital that does mornings at an easy pace.
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Cafés & coffee · 12-60 MAD
Best Cafés in Rabat — Riverside Terraces and Capital Calm
Rabat's café culture is relaxed and unhurried, befitting the capital: French-legacy pavement terraces in the ville nouvelle, a modern specialty-coffee scene in Agdal, and the famous garden café in the Kasbah des Oudayas overlooking the river. It is a fine city for a slow coffee or mint tea.
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Refined Moroccan & international · 300-800 MAD
Fine Dining in Rabat — The Capital's Refined and Diplomatic Tables
As Morocco's capital and diplomatic heart, Rabat has a polished, understated fine-dining scene: refined Moroccan restaurants, French and international kitchens, and licensed tables in the smart Agdal, Hassan and Souissi districts. It is elegant rather than showy, in keeping with the city's calm character.
Read guide Moroccan & Mediterranean · 60-350 MAD
Best Rooftop Restaurants in Rabat — Views Over the River and Kasbah
Rabat's rooftops look out over the Bou Regreg river, the blue-and-white Kasbah des Oudayas and the Atlantic beyond. From medina terraces to smart district rooftops, the capital offers relaxed, scenic dining and mint tea with some of the loveliest coastal-city views in Morocco.
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Moroccan couscous · 50-150 MAD
Best Couscous in Rabat — The Capital's Friday Tradition
Couscous is Morocco's Friday dish, and in the capital it is the great weekly family lunch, steamed after midday prayers. From seven-vegetable platters to coastal fish couscous, Friday is the day to eat it well in Rabat.
Read guideEssaouira
Where to eat in Essaouira
Grilled seafood · 40-200 MAD
Best Grilled Fish in Essaouira — The Port Grills
Essaouira's grilled-fish stalls at the port are one of Morocco's great eating experiences: you pick your fish straight off the day's catch, agree a price by weight, and watch it grilled over charcoal within sight of the boats. It doesn't get fresher than this.
Read guide Seafood · 50-250 MAD
Best Seafood in Essaouira — Beyond the Port Grills
Essaouira is a seafood town through and through, and beyond the famous port grills its medina restaurants and rooftops do fish tagine, seafood pastilla and platters of the daily Atlantic catch. Fresh, wind-cooled and unpretentious, it is some of Morocco's best coastal eating.
Read guide Street food · 10-60 MAD
Best Street Food in Essaouira — Medina Snacks by the Sea
Essaouira's compact, walkable medina makes for easy street-food grazing: the port fish grills, msemmen and sfenj from the griddles, snail carts, and stalls selling roasted nuts, dates and the region's argan-oil sweets. It is relaxed, cheap and seaside.
Read guide Budget seafood & Moroccan · 10-50 MAD
Cheap Eats in Essaouira — Budget Seaside Food
Essaouira lets you eat fresh Atlantic seafood on a shoestring: grilled sardines for a few dirhams, fish canteens in the medina, and the usual soups and sandwiches. For a seaside town, it is remarkably kind to a tight budget.
Read guide Seafood & Moroccan · 60-280 MAD
Best Rooftop Restaurants in Essaouira — Ramparts, Ocean and Wind
Essaouira's rooftops look out over a whitewashed medina, 18th-century ramparts and the crashing Atlantic. Windier than most, they trade shelter for one of Morocco's most dramatic seaside panoramas — best enjoyed with fresh fish and a mint tea at sunset.
Read guide Moroccan breakfast · 20-90 MAD
Best Breakfast in Essaouira — Argan, Amlou and Sea Air
Breakfast in Essaouira comes with the region's argan specialities — amlou spread, argan oil for dipping bread — alongside the usual Moroccan griddle breads and honey, often eaten on a rooftop in the cool morning sea air. It is a distinctive, unhurried coastal start.
Read guide Cafés & coffee · 12-50 MAD
Best Cafés in Essaouira — Coffee and Mint Tea in the Windy City
Essaouira is a laid-back Atlantic port with a bohemian, gnaoua-music soul, and its cafés match the mood: relaxed terraces on the main square and ramparts, sea air, and mint tea sipped slowly. It is one of the most easygoing café towns on the Moroccan coast.
Read guide Grilled seafood · 50-300 MAD
Best Port Grills in Essaouira — Choose Your Fish at the Harbour
Essaouira's blue fishing port, with its scuffed wooden boats and wheeling gulls, is the classic place to eat the day's catch grilled on the spot. You point at the fish, they weigh it, and it lands on the coals minutes later.
Read guide Moroccan & seafood · 50-250 MAD
Best Medina Restaurants in Essaouira — Eating Inside the Ramparts
Essaouira's compact, whitewashed UNESCO medina is easy to navigate and packed with good eating, from courtyard restaurants to rooftop terraces catching the Atlantic breeze. Its relaxed, artsy character extends to the table.
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Beach & seafood · 50-300 MAD
Best Beach Restaurants in Essaouira — Dining on the Windy Bay
Essaouira's long, windswept beach curves south from the medina, lined with cafés and restaurants where kitesurfers, families and travellers eat with sand underfoot. It is the town's relaxed, breezy alternative to the port grills.
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Moroccan-French fusion · 90-400 MAD
Best Moroccan-French Fusion in Essaouira — Where Two Kitchens Meet
Essaouira's long artistic and expatriate history has produced Morocco's most natural fusion cooking, where Moroccan spice meets French technique and Atlantic seafood. The town's bistros and creative kitchens are its quiet culinary highlight.
Read guide Budget · 15-70 MAD
Best Budget Eats in Essaouira — Cheap and Cheerful by the Sea
You do not need a big budget to eat well in Essaouira. Fresh sardines, bean soups, street snacks and simple canteens keep the coastal town affordable even as the port grills chase the tourist dirham.
Read guide Brunch · 40-180 MAD
Best Brunch in Essaouira — Slow Mornings in the Wind City
Essaouira's laid-back, creative atmosphere makes it a natural place for a long, unhurried brunch. Medina cafés and seafront terraces serve everything from traditional Moroccan breakfasts to modern brunch plates with argan-country flavours.
Read guideTangier
Where to eat in Tangier
Seafood · 50-300 MAD
Best Seafood in Tangier — Where Two Seas Meet
Tangier stands where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean at the Strait of Gibraltar, and its seafood reflects both waters and a strong Spanish influence. From the fish market to the port grills, the catch here is superb — and often served with an Andalusian accent.
Read guide Street food · 10-50 MAD
Best Street Food in Tangier — Sockos, Snails and Spanish Flavours
Tangier's street food blends Moroccan classics with Spanish influence: calentita (chickpea flan) from the old International Zone, grilled sardines, snail carts, and the buzzing food scene around the Grand and Petit Socco squares. It is one of Morocco's most distinctive street eats.
Read guide Budget Moroccan & Spanish-influenced · 10-45 MAD
Cheap Eats in Tangier — Budget Food Between Two Continents
Tangier feeds a busy port city cheaply: calentita carts, fish grills, soup stalls and sandwich counters around the Soccos and the medina. With Spanish-influenced snacks and fresh seafood at budget prices, it is a rewarding city to eat in on very little.
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International & Mediterranean · 300-800 MAD
Fine Dining in Tangier — Cosmopolitan Tables Above the Strait
Tangier's international history — decades as a free-wheeling International Zone that drew writers, artists and exiles — left it with a cosmopolitan dining culture unlike anywhere else in Morocco. Its best tables blend Moroccan, Spanish, French and Mediterranean cooking, often with a view of Spain across the water.
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