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Café Restaurant La Noria
This café is tucked away in the Bou Jeloud Gardens next to an old waterwheel – a delightful retreat from the bustle of the city. The shady courtyard is perfect to relax in, and in addition to drinks and juices, there’s a good dining menu if you’re peckish.
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Restaurant Marrakech
A charming restaurant that goes from strength to strength behind thick wooden doors. Red tadelakt walls and dark furniture, with a cushion-strewn salon at the back add ambience, while the menu’s variety refreshes the palettes, with dishes like chicken tajine with apple and olive, or lamb with aubergine and peppers (there’s also a set three-course menu).
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Rubis Grill
This bar and grill is heavy on the meat and fish in good, tasty portions. If you only want a quick bite, you can sit at the bar and enjoy tapas over a cold beer.
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Restaurant Bab Marrakesh
Near Souq al-Had, this is the real thing, far removed from the tourist traps near the beach. Highly regarded by locals, it serves authentic Moroccan food at authentic prices.
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El Angulo
Here’s your chance to eat inside the Royal Walls. The local meats and seafood are as good as the unique atmosphere. White tablecloths and stone fortifications work surprisingly well together.
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Le 5
Deep-purple seating, warm stone arches and giant lampshades dominate this trendy restaurant which serves well-cooked and original Mediterranean and Moroccan dishes. One of the favourite places to head for dinner.
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Restaurant de la Place
Friendly, less formal and more varied than its neighbours, this restaurant offers a choice of traditional Moroccan dishes as well as the ubiquitous seafood. For the best of both worlds go for the delicious fish tajine.
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Yacout
With its shaded garden, screeching parrot and delicious Moroccan-Western pastries, Yacout wins hands down as the breakfast spot. Later in the day it serves sandwiches, Moroccan sweets and ice-cream cakes. Avoid the main menu.
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Dar Anebar
A good riad for dining, where you’ll eat in truly fine surroundings, in the splendid courtyard, or one of the cosy salons. The menu is strictly Moroccan, but of the highest standard, and you can accompany dinner with a bottle of wine.
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Chez Françoise
An excellent choice for a light, healthy meal, this pared-back little place offers a choice of savoury tarts served with three tangy salads. It's simple, well-made food and is a glorious find after a diet of tajine and kefta.
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Restaurant Mille et Une Nuits
Easily located off Place el-Hedim, this is another converted house, whose owners have leant towards the more showy ‘palace’ restaurant style of surroundings. You’ll find all the Moroccan standards and classics on a reasonably priced menu.
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Club Nautico
This simple restaurant has a nice location overlooking the yacht harbour. The three-course menú del diá (daily set menu) is a popular choice, while the luscious fish dishes will set you back the same amount on their own.
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Ryad Mabrouka
Dine in the leafy garden of this delightful riad guesthouse in the warmer months, or in winter in the 1st-floor dining room overlooking the medina. Traditional fare is served in a three-course set menu, and wine is available. It's necessary to book 24 hours in advance.
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Restaurante Les Chandeliers
This popular place opposite the museum has an atmospheric setting in an historic town house with candle-lit tables and an interesting menu of French and Moroccan fare. You can get anything here from a fine magret du canard (duck breast) to cheap and cheerful pizza.
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Restaurant Gambrinus
A good place for Moroccan food in colourful surroundings in the ville nouvelle, which feels like something of a surprise when you discover that the original Gambrinus was a Czech immigrant in 1914. It’s perennially popular with locals, who come for the good range of tajines.
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Le Ziryab
This chic Moroccan restaurant is in a magnificent building just off Rue des Consuls. The blend of old-world character and stylish contemporary design is reflected in the excellent menu of interesting variations on tajine, couscous, pastilla, and grilled meat and fish.
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Cala Carlota
This simple restaurant has a prime location in the Club Nautico overlooking the yacht harbour, with outdoor seating in season. The three-course menú del diá (daily set menu) is a popular choice, while the luscious fish dishes will set you back the same amount on their own.
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Restaurant Riad
While all the riads in the Meknès medina have lovely restaurants, this is probably the pick of the bunch. Set around a lush green courtyard, it’s a great place to relax, and while the menu of salads, tajines and couscous is simple, it’s all delicious and served with care and attention.
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Restaurant El-Minzah
Sit on the outside terrace or in the elegant dining room inside at this popular place facing the ramparts. The menu features a good selection of international dishes with specialities such as blue shark and Berber tajine with argan oil, and there’s lively Gnawa music here on Saturday nights.
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Restaurant Ferdaous
A delightful Moroccan restaurant, and one of the few places in town that serves real, home-cooked, traditional Moroccan food. The seasonal menu offers an innovative take on traditional recipes, the service is very friendly and the low tables and padded seating make it feel like the real McCoy.
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Restaurant Valencia
This excellent spot just off the waterfront is a perennial favourite, and always seems busy. The décor hints at the captain's table, and the menus are suitably seafaring. Have a look at the catch of the day on offer in the chiller as you walk in, then enjoy a cold beer while waiting for your meal.
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Jnane Soussia
A delightful restaurant, a short walk from Bab Zorgane, with tented seating areas set around a large pool in a garden adjacent to the ramparts. The house specialities are a mouth-watering mechoui (whole roast lamb) and pigeon pastilla, which have to be ordered in advance, but everything here is good.
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Restaurant Oumnia
This is less a formal restaurant than a few rooms of a family home converted into dining salons, and the emphasis here is on warm service and hearty Moroccan fare. There’s just a three-course set menu, but it’s a real winner, with delicious harira (lentil soup), salads and a choice of several tajines of the day.
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Dar Sultana
Also going under the name Sweet Sultana, this is a small but charming restaurant in a converted medina house. The tent canopy over the courtyard gives an intimate, even romantic, atmosphere, set off by walls painted with henna designs and bright fabrics. The spread of cooked Moroccan salads is a big highlight of the menu.
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Hamadi
This is one of the best ‘palace restaurants’ offering multicourse local cuisine, uniformed staff, live music and perhaps belly-dancing, all of it aimed at the next tour bus. But the price is right, the decor bright and the location pleasant. Avoid the rush hour at lunch, when they try to move tables at 25-minute intervals.
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