Bacha Coffee Bakery Counter is a bakery in Medina, Marrakech.
Editorially verified June 7, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Closed Mondays. Counter sales skip the dining-room queue; buy a box of madeleines to go.
Address: Dar el Bacha, Rue Fatima Zahra, Marrakech 40000
Patisserie des Princes on Rue Bab Agnaou near Marrakech's Jemaa el-Fna runs an air-conditioned tea room behind the counter, daily from 06:00, since the 1990s.
Tip: Pastries 14 to 18 DH, more expensive but cleaner than other medina cake shops. The back tea room is a heat refuge.
Worth the queue: Cornes de gazelle and chebakia
Patisserie Amandine in Marrakech's Gueliz, since 1997, runs the city's best French-Moroccan bakery counter; viennoiseries, flans, almond pastries.
Tip: Take-away counter at the front; cafe at the back. Lighter mornings; afternoons fill with Gueliz regulars.
Worth the queue: Opera cake and cornes de gazelle
Patisserie des Princes on Rue Bab Agnaou near Marrakech's Jemaa el-Fna runs an air-conditioned tea room behind the counter, daily from 06:00, since the 1990s.
Tip: Pastries 14 to 18 DH, more expensive but cleaner than other medina cake shops. The back tea room is a heat refuge.
Worth the queue: Cornes de gazelle and chebakia
The Boutique Pierre Herme Paris at Marrakech's La Mamounia is the chef-pastrymaker's only African outpost; macarons, Ispahan, and the Mamounia-only specials.
Tip: Open to the public, not hotel guests only. Ispahan macarons and the rose-litchi cake are the bench-marks.
Worth the queue: Ispahan macaron
