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 Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:14 am Post subject: FOOD & DINING IN MOROCCO / MOROCCO DINING GUIDE |
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FOOD & DINING IN MOROCCO
GENERAL
Morocco’s traditional haute cuisine dishes are excellent and good value for money. They are often exceedingly elaborate, based on a diet of meat and sweet pastries. Hotel restaurants usually serve French cuisine. Restaurants offer a good selection of food, including typical Moroccan dishes, French, Italian or Spanish meals. The three-course fixed menus are not expensive. Many of the souks have stalls selling kebabs (brochettes) often served with a spicy sauce. Most restaurants have waiter service. Bars can have either waiter or counter service. Laws on alcohol are fairly liberal (for non-Muslim visitors) and bars in most tourist areas stay open late. Wines, beers and spirits are widely available. Locally produced wines, beers and mineral waters are excellent and good value, but imported drinks tend to be expensive.
National specialties
• Harira, a rich soup.
• Pastilla, a pigeon-meat pastry made from dozens of different layers of thick flaky dough.
• Couscous, a dish based on savoury semolina that can be combined with egg, chicken, lamb or vegetables.
• Tajine is a stew, often rich and fragrant, using marinated lamb or chicken.
• Hout is a fish version of the same stew.
• Djaja mahamara is chicken stuffed with almonds, semolina and raisins.
• Also popular are mchoui, pit-roasted mutton.
• Kab-el-ghzal, almond pastries.
National drinks
• Mint tea made with green tea, fresh mint and sugar. It is very refreshing and its consumption is an integral part of Moroccan social courtesy.
• Coffee is made very strong, except at breakfast.
PLACES TO DINE
Agadir
Restaurant Caverna
Boulevard Hassan II
Food: Good quality, some set menus, local food
Cost: Reasonable
Restaurant Daffy
Rue des Oranges
Food: Reasonable quality, set menus, local food
Cost: Cheap to reasonable
Yacht Club Restaurant du Port
Port d'Agadir
Food: Specialise in fish and other seafood fresh from the sea
Cost: Reasonable
Via Veneto
Boulevard Hassan II
Food: Italian food, as well as some local meat and fish dishes
Cost: Reasonable
Cassablanca
Al Mounia
95 Rue du Prince Moulay Abdallah
Food: Traditional local food
Cost: Reasonable to pricy
Snack Boule de Neige
72 Rue Araibi Jilali
Food: Varied delicious snacks
Cost: Cheap
Notre Alsace
59 Boulevard de la Corniche, A'n Diab
Food: Meat and fish dishes
Cost: Reasonable
Erfoud
Cafe-Restaurant des Dunes
Avenue Moulay Isma'l
Food: Local food including the local speciality Kalia dish
Cost: Cheap
Restaurant Merzouga
112 Avenue Mohammed V
Food: Delicious local food, vegetarian harira
Cost: Cheap
Cafe-Restaurant du Clap
7 Rue Allal Ben Abdellah
Food: A mixture of local and continental dishes
Cost: Cheap to Reasonable
Fez
Zagora Restaurant
5 Boulevard Mohammed V
Food: French or Moroccan dishes
Cost: Reasonable to Pricy
Cafe-Restaurant al Mousaffir
47 Boulevard Mohammed V
Food: Meat and Fish dishes, local wine
Cost: Reasonable to Pricy
Restaurant Pizzeria Mamia
Between BMCI & BMCE (Place de Florence)
Food: Local and international dishes and fast foods
Cost: Reasonable
Marrakesh
Le Pavillon
47 Derb Zaouia (opposite Bab Doukkala Mosque)
Food: French
Cost: Reasonable to Pricy
Catanzaro
11 Rue Tarik Ben Ziad
Food: Italian
Cost: Cheap to Reasonable
Restaurant el Bahia
1 Rue Riad Zitoun el Djedid (Bahia Palace)
Food: Local specialties
Cost: Pricy
Rabat
Restaurant el Jamahir
215 Avenue Mohammed V
Food: Tasty local food
Cost: Cheap
Restaurant La Bamba
3 Rue Tanta (behind Hotel Balima)
Food: Moroccan and European food, set menus
Cost: Reasonable
Restaurant Entrecete
74 Avenue Fal Ould Ouemir
Food: French food, good fish
Cost: Expensive
Restaurant La Pagode
13 Rue Baghdad (near train station)
Food: Chinese and Vietnamese food
Cost: Reasonable
Tangier
Chez Hammadi
Address: 2 Rue de la Kasbah
Food: Traditional Moroccan dishes
Cost: Reasonable
Restaurant le Coeur de Tanger
1 Rue Annoual (above Cafe Paris)
Food: Moroccan dishes
Cost: Reasonable to Pricy
Restaurant Mendes
80 Av d'Espagne
Food: Fish dishes
Cost: Reasonable |
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