Café restaurants in Morocco
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Chicken Mac
Chicken Mac quickly serves up generous plates of rotisserie chicken, bowls of harira (soup) and other cheap, filling meals.
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Cafés
Unsurprisingly, it's hard to get past the Cafés on Plaza Uta el-Hammam for a long juice or a relaxing mint tea. From mid-afternoon, hawkers do the rounds of the cafés carrying trays laden with sticky pastries for sale. In the back rooms, local men play cards and smoke kif - worth a look, although women won't feel particularly welcome.
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Café Ba Bouchta
Opposite the funduq is this very old café'. A small wood fire, pumped up with bellows, heats water in a copper urn; sugar is chipped off a large cone with a special hammer, and men sit playing cards in the L-shaped room. Sit on a stool at the window and watch the square below. Mint tea is around DH3 and coffee Dh3.
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Kechmara
If you can tear yourself away from the white and chrome décor, eye-candy waiters, and fashionable locals discussing affairs in Saarinen chairs, you might find the menu of interest. Respectable sandwiches and salads can be had for under around DH100, not to mention excellent cappuccino and aperitifs upstairs on the roof terrace.
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Salon de Thé Panorama Vista
Tetouan's trendiest café, this hotel café has quite glorious views over the Rif Mountains. It's always busy but, even if you don't manage to grab a window seat, the salon is a lovely place wherever you sit. Waiters work hard, and you'll need to do the same to grab their attention.
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Plaza Café-Restaurants
A popular eating option in Chefchaouen is to choose one of about a dozen Plaza Café-Restaurants on the main square. Menus are virtually identical – continental breakfasts, soups and salads, tajines and seafood – but the food is generally pretty good and the ambience lively.
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Salon de Thé Liberté
Neatly decorated in dark wood, with a garden at the back, this place is also a restaurant serving up reliable Moroccan and international dishes. It excels as a café though, with its wide front windows opening to let the air in, where you can sit and watch the street at work and play.
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Al Mountazah
While it seems more Floridian than Moroccan, you can’t beat this rooftop perch for observing the activity on the Grand Socco: sip your morning coffee and watch the square come alive from the great terrace. Offers breakfast for Dh12 (7am to 10am) and ice cream in summer.
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Café Alba
High ceilings, swish, modern furniture, subtle lighting and a hint of elegant colonial times mark this café out from the more traditional smoky joints around town. It’s hassle-free downtime for women and a great place for watching Casa’s up-and-coming.
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Cafe De Tabarakallah
This large popular café, opposite Cinema Amal, has space inside and upstairs, but the best place for watching the world go by is outside on the pavement. Pains au chocolat (pastry with chocolate) are around DH2, coffee or mint tea Dh5.
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Dolcy's Café
At the southern tip of Blvd Pasteur, this is a large café popular with both men and women, with clean, modern décor and friendly service. A good choice for breakfast, before the heat of the sun scorches the outside seating area.
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Epsom
Almost always crowded and spilling customers onto the streetside seating, this friendly café serves a choice of grills and brochettes at bargain prices. It’s a relaxed place with a mixed clientele and offers hassle-free eating for women.
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Cafetería Nuevo California
This modern cafeteria with a small outdoor terrace has a wide-ranging menu and friendly waiters eager to help your clumsy Spanish along. The sandwiches and pasta are particularly good, all washed down with a cold cerveza (beer).
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Café Central
Next to the park, this is a busy breakfast spot, with great coffee, pastries and cooked items. The inside can sometimes be a bit smoky, but there's a seating area outside. Clocks set to various time zones remind you of the hour at home.
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Bab el-Ansar Café
Just outside the medina, this café has a great location overlooking the falls of Ras el Maa, with three terraces tumbling down the hill. Views are particularly nice in the late afternoon, with the sun catching the mountains opposite.
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Cremerie La Place
Put a café in one of the most interesting spots in the medina, and you have a near-perfect combination. Over juice, tea, coffee and pastries, the parade passes before you, accompanied by the tapping of the square’s coppersmiths.
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Snack Bounana
A popular pit stop on the souq trail is in the square near the medersa. The setting, on the square with its green vines, is half the attraction - a chilled respite from the haggling and finagling with shop owners.
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Al-Madina
The main attraction of this simple little café in the medina is its sunny seating area in the square in front of El-Kamra Tower. It's a great place to sip a coffee or have a snack from the simple, Moroccan menu.
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La Symphonie des Douceurs II
The best place for breakfast or an afternoon sugar fix is this French-style patisserie, where you can devour pastries and ice cream in very civilised surroundings. It's popular with tourists and young couples.
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Patisserie La Española
A heavily mirrored tea room, this café tempts people off the street with its pretty arrangements of cakes and pastries. Everyone seems to come here – locals and foreigners, businessmen and courting couples.
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Cafe Firdaous
This is a great place for breakfast (croissant around DH3, pain au chocolat around DH2, coffee around DH5), or sip a glass of mint tea (Dh5) and watch the comings and goings in bustling Batha.
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Café Rossy
Another reliable place to grab a quick eat or while away an hour with a book and a coffee. The bocadillos are a perfect lunchtime snack - enjoy the ham ones now before you head into Morocco.
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Café Ourika
The kerbside tables at this neighbourhood café to the east of Bab Semmarine are the perfect spots from which to observe the comings and goings of the Mellah. A large mint tea costs around DH10.
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Café Tanger
If the nearby Symphonie restaurant is too chichi for you, head for this café north of the square where the predominantly male clientele sip coffee, suck their teeth and watch over the world.
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Galapagos Café
Slick café-terrace with dark-wood panelling, contemporary furniture and floor-to-ceiling windows. It’s popular with young professionals for its ice cream, crêpes, panini and people-watching.
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