Marrakech Restaurants Marrakech offers travellers a cosmopolitan food choice and also has a rich tradition of regional dishes, using local fish, game, fruit and daily products to its best advantage. Wine and liquor are rarely consumed outside select tourist-oriented restaurants. Marrakech offers far more than rib-stickers, many differently delicious kinds of international cuisine are available all over town and at Marrakech hotels. Vegetarians can have a hard time; book ahead. El-Faissa
232 Avenue Mohammed V
Marrakech
Tel: +212 44 434060 The more relaxed, intimate restaurant specialises in traditional Arabic cuisine, prepared by an all-female team. Cafe Arabe
184 rue Mouassine
Marrakech
Tel: +212 44 429728 Hot on the list of Morocco's restaurants, Café Arabe is the most stylish addition to the city's ever-growing array of fashionable eateries. Cafe Glacier
Hotel CTM
Jemaa el-Fna
Marrakech
Tel: +212 44 422325 Designed in an art deco style, with a terrace area overlooking the colourful Djemma El Fna, Café Glacier is the place to be seen and enjoy Africa-meets-Europe cuisine. Chez Chegrouni Cafe Restaurant
NE corner of Place Djemaa al-Fna
Marrakech, Morocco It is a value for money restaurant, always packed with people enjoying traditional food as well as African delicacies. Dar Moha
81 rue Dar el Bacha
Marrakech
Tel: +212 44 386400 The former home of fashion designer Pierre Balmain is now a fine dining experience. Service is impeccable and the food delicious. Le Fondouk
55 Souk Hal Fassi Kaât Bennahid
Marrakech
Tel: +212 44 378190 This is the most ragingly chic of the city's new-style restaurants, with a dark, moody décor that invites you to lounge on cushions pondering the relative merits of a croquant de chocolat noir, coulis de fraises or glaces de pistache. Le Fondouk applies cutting-edge European interior design to a fine old riad. Le Tobsil
22 Derb Abdellah Ben Hessaien
Marrakech
Tel: +212 44 444052 One of Marrakech's most high-profile destination restaurants. It offers classic Arabian dishes with as much finesse as international recipes from fresh seafood to game. Perfect for special occasions. Stalls
Medina, Marrakech As the sun sets on the central square of Djemma El Fna, hundred open kitchens are swiftly set up in tightly drawn rows, set with benches and illuminated by lights strung overhead. Within the space of no more than half an hour, the road is transformed into what must be one of the world's biggest open-air eateries.
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