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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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Cuisine Gourmande
In a corner of the Central Market’s parking, this French-run café and traiteur serves salads and ready-made dishes, perfect for a quick meal or picnic on the beach. They also make some of Agadir’s best French cakes and pastries.
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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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Les Trois Portes
Stone arches, tiled tables and a constant stream of happy customers make this cheerful little place one of the most popular joints in town. Run by a group of jovial sisters, it's warm and friendly with a full range of pizzas and pastas.
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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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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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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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Restaurant Saigon
Grilled fish, plus a few Moroccan standards, rather than anything Vietnamese, is the order of the day at Saigon. The food is excellent, and it can get crowded at lunch time, so make sure you head upstairs to grab a table away from the throng.
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L’R du Gout
This large, new restaurant with a colourful interior – a blend of French bistort and Moroccan flair – is run by young French men. The menu serves traditional French brasserie food such as foie gras, veal kidneys, and steak with a pepper sauce.
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La Mer
Right next door to La Fibule, and under the same management, this seafood restaurant is a refined place with white linen and bone china replacing the ethnic vibe. The menu and service is very French, bordering on stuffy, but the food is divine.
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Palais des Glaces
Famous across the city for its excellent ice cream, this is one of the city’s oldest sweet-tooth stops, serving up delicious ice creams and sorbets for 125 years. Set across from the beach in Aïn Diab, it makes a glorious retreat on a fine day.
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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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Ocean Vagabond
Although a good walk from town, this simple little café is the best of the beachfront offerings. It serves a decent but limited range of sandwiches, pizza, pasta and salads and has plenty of comfy seats in the sand from where the kids can run free.
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Thai Gardens
Slightly out of the centre in the affluent suburb of Anfa, but worth seeking out for its excellent Thai cuisine, this place is another top-notch option. The vast menu of Thai classics is refreshingly inventive and makes a good choice for vegetarians.
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Cafe Weimar
This hip café in the Goethe Institut is where the young and beautiful hang out for cake and coffee or lunch. It also does a simple Mediterranean menu and is a good spot for Sunday brunch. Book ahead, but there are no reservations on Friday and Saturday
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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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Pâtisserie Lina
Mountainous cakes in elaborate guises adorn the window displays at this traditional French patisserie. Come for breakfast and you may find yourself returning for an afternoon sugar fix just so you can try some more of the tantalising gateaux on display.
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Cafe Kortoba
This café is an institution. When you're tired of all the walking, it's a great (albeit small) place to sit for coffee or mint tea, orange juice, an ice cream or a slice of cake. Bang on the edge of the Kairaouine, there's plenty going on around you.
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Paul
This French bakery and patisserie is the place to hang out in Rabat, serving the best croissants in town for breakfast, good sandwiches, salads and a light menu throughout the day. Sit in the elegant interior or on the pleasant, if noisy, streetside terrace.
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Marché Central
If you’re planning a picnic on the beach, head for the Marché Central, located between Blvd Mohammed V and Rue Allah ben Abdellah. It’s a fascinating place to just stroll and has a great selection of fresh produce and a couple of good delis.
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Café d’Horloge
This popular café is an excellent choice for a breakfast of amlou (a spread made of local argan oil, almond and honey) and crepes or bread (Dh25). It’s away from the hoards of people on the main café drag and a good choice for a quiet coffee or snack.
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Mezzo Mezzo
Ask any Agadir resident for their list of favourite restaurants and this pizzeria will be on it. Why? ‘Because it’s always so much fun.’ ‘I’ve never had a bad meal there.’ ‘Worth going just to see Jean Michel, the maitre d’, at work.’ Classic pizzas and pastas.
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Restaurant Restinga
The open-air courtyard covered by a canopy of eucalyptus is this charming restaurant’s primary attraction – along with the rare alcohol license. It’s a great place to duck out of the crowded boulevard for a rest and a beer, as well as some seafood from the coast.
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Restaurante Oceano Casa Pepe
Black-tied waiters lure in the punters from the street at this slightly more formal dining option, where fresh seafood tops the bill. Spanish wine, low lighting and soft music make it a more refined atmosphere but the food is arguably the same as elsewhere in town.
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San Remo
An international menu, long on Italian and with a slant towards fish, tables with bright cloths facing the street, Moroccan background music and a mix of clientele – expats, tourists, local businessmen – make this a lively spot with a great cultural crossroads feel.
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