Steak and street-food grill in a hotel · €€€€
The steakhouse of the Hôtel & Ryads Barrière Le Naoura, opened in spring 2026 and the closest serious dinner to the gate. The beef comes from around the world: Kobe, Wagyu Tajima A5, Creekstone Black Angus and Australian Wagyu, served as tataki, from the teppanyaki or in burgers, with creamy mashed potatoes. The street-food side is for sharing: mini smashed burgers, bao buns and crispy crab tacos, then the 70% cocoa soufflé. Dinner only, every day, 7pm to 11.30pm; book online or by phone. For lunch, the hotel's Le Wardya serves by the pool, 12.30pm to 3.30pm.
Reserve aheadHôtel & Ryads Barrière Le Naoura, Rue Djebel Alakhdar, Bab Doukkala, Marrakech
Italian trattoria in a palace hotel, with a Pierre Hermé tea room · €€€€
La Mamounia is just south of the hotel, an 8-minute walk down Rue Abou El Abbas Sebti, and its restaurants take outside guests who book. L'Italien is a bright Roman-style trattoria with a winter garden and a covered terrace onto the gardens: antipasti, calamari fritto misto, wood-fired pizzas, risotto, roast lobster and osso buco, with Pierre Hermé desserts and an Italian wine list, every day for lunch and dinner. For the afternoon, Le Menzeh par Pierre Hermé, the pavilion tea room in the gardens, serves macarons made for the hotel, among them date and Earl Grey. Dress is elegant: no shorts after 6pm, no flip-flops.
Reserve aheadLa Mamounia, Avenue Bab Jdid, Marrakech
Rooftop restaurant and bar facing the Koutoubia · €€€
The 1,300 m² roof of El Fenn, by Bab Laksour, is open to non-residents from noon and has the Koutoubia minaret close enough to frame the evening. The restaurant cooks local and seasonal food, with produce from nearby farms and markets and fish and meat from the Atlantic and the Atlas: lunch 12.30pm to 3pm, dinner from 7pm, tables held for two hours. The bar pours wines, spirits and cocktails, with small plates, from noon to 11pm, first come, first served. Book the restaurant; arrive early for a bar seat at sunset. The entrance is through the El Fenn boutique on Rue Lalla Fatima Zahra.
Reserve aheadDerb Moulay Abdellah Ben Hezzian, Bab Laksour, Medina, Marrakech
Rooftop restaurant and bar, Mediterranean and sushi · €€€
A rooftop at the edge of the Medina with an open-air terrace looking straight at the Koutoubia, palm trees and bright banquettes, and a bar inside a cabana. The kitchen cooks modern Mediterranean plates for sharing, with parmesan fries as the signature, alongside a separate sushi menu, a long cocktail list and a wine list. Evenings run to DJ sets and live music, so it is lively rather than quiet; come for a late lunch or for sunset if you want the view in peace. Open every day from 11am to 2am. It is also an 11-minute walk.
Reserve aheadKissariat Ben Khaled R'mila, 1 Rue Fatima Zahra, Marrakech
Moroccan fine dining in an 18th-century riad · €€€€
An 18th-century riad in the Dar el Bacha quarter, with a garden, a fountain and a pool lined in zellige, where the chef reworks the Moroccan classics. Lunch, 12pm to 4pm, is the easier way in, à la carte or as a set menu: a run of salads such as zaalouk and taktouka with argan oil, chicken pastilla with honey and cinnamon, then tanjia marrakchia, seffa of lamb in the Fès manner or barley couscous with chicken. Dinner, 7pm to 11pm, is the full tasting menu. Open every day; book ahead. On foot it is about 15 minutes.
Reserve ahead81 Rue Dar El Bacha, Medina, Marrakech
Coffee room in a palace · €€
The coffee room of Dar el Bacha, the palace built for the pasha of Marrakech and now a museum, where more than 200 coffees from 33 producing countries are made the traditional way and served with an all-day menu. It is the morning stop on the way to the souks of Sidi Abdelaziz and Mouassine, which start nearby. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm, closed on Monday, and the queue can be long by late morning: arrive when the doors open. On foot it is about 16 minutes from the hotel gate.
Walk inDar el Bacha, Route Sidi Abdelaziz, Medina, Marrakech
1920s French brasserie in Guéliz · €€€
The 1920s grand café on the corner of Boulevard El Mansour Eddahbi and Avenue Imam Malik, in the new town, restored by Studio KO with wooden stairs, shutters and ceiling fans. It serves from breakfast to late dinner: a continental or Moroccan crêpe breakfast in the morning, then Oualidia oysters, onion soup, crab from Essaouira with avocado, steak tartare, aged beef with béarnaise and a Grand Marnier soufflé. Vegetables come largely from its own kitchen garden, and prices include tax and service. It is the classic Guéliz lunch after the Jardin Majorelle; book for dinner.
Reserve aheadCorner of Boulevard El Mansour Eddahbi and Avenue Imam Malik, Guéliz, Marrakech
Breakfast is included in every rate the hotel sells and is served at La Grande Brasserie, the hotel's French restaurant, every day from 7am to 10.30am: house breads and pastries, pancakes, pain perdu and Liège waffles, eggs any way or Benedict with house-smoked salmon, and a Moroccan table of harira, khlii, msemen, harcha and baghrir with butter and thyme honey. For a breakfast out, Le Grand Café de la Poste in Guéliz, 3 minutes by taxi, serves a continental breakfast with fresh orange juice and croissants or a Moroccan one with crêpes, honey and butter; in the Medina, Bacha Coffee at Dar el Bacha opens at 10am from Tuesday to Sunday.
