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Café Pâtisserie SMIR
On a corner in the heart of the pedestrian way, SMIR is a popular place for a coffee or pastry. There are two options: the tables strung along the pavement to watch the world go by, or the quiet seating area upstairs, which is notable for the groups of women it often attracts.
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Central Market
Central Market has a good display of fruit, vegetables and other fresh foods, especially with fish up from the coast (closed Friday).
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Heladería Atlas
This place is great for a refreshing vitamin C fix, squeezing and mixing up a great selection of juices and smoothies. There is no seating area: slug it back and keep moving.
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Jenin
The fancy, modern interior of this café makes it a popular spot for courting couples and groups of young women, a world away from the smoky male cafés on the same block.
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La Isla Boccadillos
One of the cheapest places in town to sate your appetite is this snack bar just outside the bus station offering a variety of sandwiches, kofta (mincemeat and spices grilled on a skewer) and salads with rice.
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Le Printemps Salon du Thé
A good breakfast option, Le Printemps has a large interior, with a slightly upscale feel, seemingly designed for losing hours over the newspapers.
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Medina fruit and vegetable stand
There is a mass of fresh fruit and veg for sale in the medina on the road leading east to Bab el-Okla.
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Pâtisserie Rahmouni
Ask a local where to get the best pastries in Tetouan, and they'll probably send you here. The Rahmouni family has a high reputation for its sticky delights, which have the punters queuing deep at breakfast time. Get a juice or coffee to go with your croissant at the stand-up bar at the back.
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Pizzeria Roma
This pizzeria has a bright fast-food style interior, with the scooter outside services the home-delivery business. The food is good with several vegetarian options to satisfy the stomach, while the wood oven gives the place a pleasing aroma (the false fireplace is fooling no one!).
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Restaurant Palace Bouhlal
The only palace restaurant in Tetouan is popular with Spanish tour groups, so reservations are essential. The palace is suitably sumptuous: plush carpets, gurgling fountains and rose petals. Live folk music accompanies the classically Moroccan four-course meal: soup, salad, brochettes, couscous and tajines. Follow the lane north around the Grande Mosquée and look for signs directing you down a tiny alley; you may need to get directions.
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Restaurant Restinga
Easily Tetouan's top dining spot is the vine-covered courtyard of this charming restaurant, with the abundance of fish and seafood on the menu a reminder of the town's proximity to the coast. As the only restaurant serving alcohol, it's always busy - something the management takes advantage of by automatically adding a 10% service charge to the bill. There's a small inside seating area for inclement weather.
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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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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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Snack Taouss
Known for its burgers and chips, this little snack bar also does decent, inexpensive pizzas, salads, harira (lentil soup) and the like. There's a small seating area upstairs (handy if you're waiting for a pizza), or you can eat on the hoof.
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Snack Yousfi
Fill up on a sandwich here for lunch and you might not be hungry again until breakfast. Baguettes are stuffed to overflowing with various fillings, topped out with salad and a handful of chips. Great value.
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