Marrakesh?

Anyone been? Any recommendations on food or things to do etc?

Thinking about going for about 3 days is that enough?

Still need answers to this?

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I would love to get there.

I posted about my trip here:

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Thanks for the update. I think I enjoyed Nomad more than you did. Also Terrace d’Epices, Amal, and our riad/hotel. But overall it was not a culinary trip. (We went in 2019.)

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Agreed kind of disappointing from a culinary stand point but I was not expecting that much

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Just returned from a trip to Morocco on a 2-week whirlwind tour across the country. Contributing here with some of the food highlights.

Generally we found Moroccan food to be on the hearty side, highlighted by a main dish: tangine, which is clay pot slow cooking with various main ingredients (beef/lamb/chicken/vegetables). Tangine is everywhere, every Moroccan restaurant had it in one form or another. Couscous and pastilla/bastilla are other main Moroccan dishes that are found most everywhere, as well as meat skewers. Khobz bread also seem to be served everywhere. In terms of drinks, Morocco is known for mint tea.

We largely stayed away from street food for fear of eating the wrong thing because, as our guides tell us, we don’t have the “bacteria” like the locals to properly process the food. Same goes for the drinking water which is safe for the locals to drink but is a YMMV for tourists. It was good that every hotel we went to offered bottled water (or equivalent) free of charge.

Our first 10 days or so we stuck to Moroccan restaurants but after eating our umpteenth tangine dish, it got repetitive and we started veering towards restaurants of other cuisines. Here are a few samples of those we found were decent/good:

  • Casablanca: Le Cabestan Served both Moroccan and European dishes. Great Ocean view.
  • Chefchaouen: @restaurant in Dar Jasmine hotel in this picturesque town about 2.5hrs from Tangier that’s painted blue. If you stay/eat here, they allow BYOW to the restaurant. There’s a nice view of the city since the hotel is high up in the mountains. Warning: you have to walk ~145 steps to get to it! Get the hotel to bring your luggage.
  • Fes: Eden at Palais Amani du Palais Faraj Another hotel restaurant serving Moroccan dishes.
  • Fes: Restaurant MB A European restaurant that was one of the better ones in town.
  • Marrakech Toro Toro Restaurant Serving South American food (we were craving for anything but Moroccan food by the time we hit Marrakech). Good reviews but overrated IMO.
  • Marrakech: +61 Restaurant Owners are Australian which explains the “+61” as it represents Australia’s country code. Western style food from pasta to schnitzel. Good, not great. Odd that there was only one Aussie wine on their wine list.
  • Marrakech: Sesamo (at Royal Mansour) This is a very high end Italian restaurant (by Morocco standards) at Royal Mansour owned by the King of Morocco. Beautiful place! You enter by a guarded gate to get there. We ordered the 1500 MAD tasting menu and it was good, probably one of the best in Morocco.
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