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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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Café Opera
Airy and old-fashioned, this grand café is a classic - among the most popular for Moroccan men to sip their mint tea. Sitting outside people watching is a great breakfast pastime.
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Café Tulipe
Just off the main road, the Tulipe has a large shady terrace and modern interior, one of the most pleasant cafés to kill an hour or two.
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Dar Sultana
A small but perfectly formed restaurant in a converted medina house, Dar Sultan is perfect for romantic dining. Nicely decorated with henna paintings and fabrics (the tent canopy over the courtyard gives an intimate atmosphere), the food is equally delightful - try the great spread of cooked Moroccan salads. Only the wine glasses on the table disappointed us, as no alcohol is served.
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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 fairly international, with notably good seafood. Alcohol is served.
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Le Pub
Something of a newcomer to the Meknès dining scene, Le Pub will give your tastebuds a lift if you're feeling tajine fatigue. The menu is firmly continental, with some good steaks and a few more unusual dishes like crab ravioli. The décor reflects the more upscale price menu, and you can wash everything down with a bottle of red from the local vineyards.
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Les Palmiers d'Aziza
While the fancy cakes and mouthwatering cookies are attractive, the draw here is the sunny, flowering garden, where tables are topped with umbrellas and a cooling fountain gurgles. It is the most pleasant place in Meknès for repose - for women and men alike.
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Marhaba Restaurant
Marhaba Restaurant 'Never beaten on price' should be this place's proud motto. More a canteen than restaurant, it packs in everyone from lunchtime workers to gangs of schoolgirls. Food is cheap and tasty - a bowl of harira and a plateful of makoda (fried potato patties) will fill you up and still give change from around DH10 . Superb.
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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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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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Pizzeria Le Four
The dark timber and whitewashed walls lend a suitably Italian atmosphere to this popular pizzeria. The pizzas are great, served up on wooden platters, and there's a decent selection of meat dishes, pasta and some good salads. Alcohol is served, but don't let that dull your senses to the cheeky 14% tax.
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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
Another converted medina house, this restaurant works hard to capture the spirit of its name. You'll find all the Moroccan standards and classics on a reasonably priced menu.
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Restaurant Oumnia
This informal restaurant is inside a family home, just off the main drag of the Meknès medina, giving diners a warm welcome. 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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Restaurant Pizza Roma
Although the names suggest 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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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 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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Sandwich Stands
The cluster of snack stands on the northwest corner of Place el-Hedim is ideal for a lunchtime snack, which can easily stretch into an afternoon of people-watching on the square. There's a wide range of grilled meat fillings, all topped out with generous handfuls of salad.
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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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