Restaurants in Meknès
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Palais de Poulet
Looking down from the Hôtel Rif towards Ave Hassan II, this is one of several good and cheap rotisserie places where you can fill up quickly on chicken, chips, bread and salad. Although you order from the table, pay at the counter inside.
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Le Dauphin
It might have an uninspiring exterior, but the French dining room and lovely garden give this restaurant one of the nicest dining settings in town. The menu is continental, with some good meat and fish dishes. Alcohol is served.
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Restaurant Zitouna
In the heart of the medina, this grand establishment offers the same palace restaurant style you'd find in Fès. Its ornate covered courtyard is done up with zellij and stucco, with several small salons for more restrained dining. Traditional Moroccan dishes are naturally the order of the day, with pastilla being something of a house speciality.
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Les Palmiers d’Aziza
With an exterior in bright Marrakesh pink, this popular café offers several options – sit in the sunny garden, hang at the tables near the mouthwatering cookie counter, or head upstairs to the covered terrace away from public view. The latter is a popular choice for boys and girls on dates. The ice cream and smoothies here are excellent.
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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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NRJ
If you’re a young and fashionable Meknassi, then you’re going to be hanging out at NRJ. Importing a bit of big-city laptop-friendly cool, it’s all glass-topped tables, under-lit seating and funky tunes on the stereo. Perfect for a light meal any time of day, and the paninis and good range of juices are particularly 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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Pizzeria le Four
This is as good a place as any in the ville nouvelle to load up on pizza, and the dark-wood and brick surroundings take you halfway out of Morocco towards Italy. Alcohol is served, so late at night you sometimes find local men getting sloshed among the clientele. Watch out for the steep service tax added to bills.
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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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Sandwich stands
Take your pick of any one of the stands lining Place el-Hedim, and sit at the canopied tables to watch the scene as you eat. There are larger meals like tajines, but the sandwiches are usually quick and excellent, while a few places nearer the medina walls do a good line in sardines.
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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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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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Ryad Bahia
Non-residents are welcome to eat at the restaurant of this riad, and it makes a pleasant evening dining spot with its tables around the courtyard. The menu is typically Moroccan, but all tasty and served and presented nicely.
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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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Restaurant Pizza Roma
Although the name suggests that pizzas are the speciality here, you could do far worse than load up on a filling plate of rotisserie chicken with rice and chips. An unassuming place, it’s popular with female diners.
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Rue Rouamzine Eateries
Particularly handy for the cheap hotels on the edge of the medina proper, this street has plenty of good eating places serving up sandwiches, kebabs, tajines, grilled chicken, fruit juices and ice cream.
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Alpha 56
Popular with the young and trendy, this place has a good selection of pastries. The downstairs can be a little smoky, in which case you can retreat to the salon upstairs.
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Mo Di Niro
If Western-style fast food is what you're after, this hip, non-smoking joint is the place to be. Pizzas, burgers, salads and plenty of chips top the menu.
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Café Tulipe
Just off the main road, the Tulipe has a large shady terrace and modern interior, it’s one of the most pleasant cafés in which to kill an hour or two.
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Pâtisserie Agadir
This place doesn't have a sign, but it's easily spotted by its piles of sticky pastries. A good takeaway option, or a quick juice and sugar refill.
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Pâtisserie Glacier Florence
A good place for a pastry breakfast on the hoof, washed down with a glug of coffee or a healthy fruit juice.
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Le Pub
The dark mirrored windows and bouncers on the door make you wonder what you’re letting yourself in for, but Le Pub is a welcome change if you’re feeling tajine fatigue. The menu is split in two – half offering continental dishes, the other branching into a Moroccan take on Chinese and Thai dishes. We preferred the oriental dishes over the pasta, but there are some good steaks too. As befits the name, alcohol is served.
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Marhaba Restaurant
This canteen-style place is adorable – its essence is cheap and cheerful – and is loved by everyone, judging by how busy it is of an evening. While you can get tajines and the like, do as everyone else does and fill up on a bowl of harira, a plate of makoda (potato fritters) with bread and hard-boiled eggs – and walk out with change from Dh15. We defy you to eat better for cheaper.
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