Day-by-day eating plans for Marrakech. weekend classics, family routes, vegan plans, on-a-budget editions.

Day-by-day plans

Marrakech weekend: the classics, done right ★ 4.7

First-time visitor, two days2 days

A weekend built around Marrakech's three layers: the souk-side rooftops, the tasting-menu riads, and Jemaa el-Fna after dark.

  1. Day 1: Saturday: medina rooftops, Fassi tasting, square at sundown

    Morning
    Coffee at Bacha Coffee in Dar el Bacha palace from 10:00 (closed Mondays only). Walk the souks south to Rahba Kedima spice square; book a 13:00 table at Le Jardin in advance.
    Afternoon
    Lunch at Le Jardin in the 16th-century riad courtyard; club sandwich frites or tanjia from the wood-fired oven. Stroll through Souk Semmarine; finish at the rooftop of Nomad over Rahba Kedima for spiced coffee.
    Evening
    Dinner at Le Tobsil on Derb Abdullah Ben Hessaien (book a week ahead). The 11-course Moroccan tasting menu with live Gnaoua music; tasting at 650 MAD; closed Tuesdays.

  2. Day 2: Sunday: Bab Doukkala breakfast, Gueliz lunch, Jemaa el-Fna night market

    Morning
    Breakfast at the Msemen Counters Bab Doukkala (closed by midday); layered semolina pancakes with honey or amlou. Bissara fava soup if it's a cool morning.
    Afternoon
    Walk into Gueliz. Lunch at Al Fassia Gueliz from 12:30, women-run since 1987; order the lamb tagine with quince. Coffee at MARH Coffee Roasters on Rue de Yougoslavie.
    Evening
    Jemaa el-Fna at 18:30 as the square transforms. Start with harira soup broken with a date, then tangia from the lunchtime hot table at Chez Lamine Hadj Mustapha at Mechoui Alley.

Marrakech three days: medina, Gueliz, Atlas day trip ★ 4.8

Returning visitor, three days3 days

Three days that move from medina depth to Gueliz cocktails to an Atlas Mountain day trip, with one big tasting menu and one Berber lunch.

  1. Day 1: Day 1: Bacha Coffee, Cafe des Epices, La Famille, Sky Bar

    Morning
    Bacha Coffee at Dar el Bacha (Tue-Sun only) from 10:00; the museum entry is 10 DH and includes the salon. Walk through to Rahba Kedima.
    Afternoon
    Lunch at La Famille on Riad Zitoun Jdid (Mon-Sat 12:00-16:00 only, closed Sundays), reservation essential. Vegetarian rotating menu in the garden courtyard. Coffee at Cafe des Epices on the rooftop for Atlas views.
    Evening
    Dinner at Pepe Nero in Riyad Al Moussika courtyard, then cocktails at Le Salama Sky Bar three floors above Rue des Banques.

  2. Day 2: Day 2: Bab Doukkala cooking class, +61 dinner, Barometre cocktails

    Morning
    La Maison Arabe cooking workshop in Bab Doukkala (book ahead). Half-day class with traditional dada chef, spice-market walk and the communal bread oven.
    Afternoon
    Lunch is the dishes you cooked. Recover at El Fenn rooftop bar in the medina; non-residents welcome, 1300m2 of Koutoubia views.
    Evening
    Dinner at +61 on Rue Mohammed el Beqal in Gueliz (MENA's 50 Best No. 31 in 2026). Then cocktails at Barometre, Morocco's first mixology bar, on Rue Moulay Ali.

  3. Day 3: Day 3: Atlas day trip to Ourika Valley with Berber riverside lunch

    Morning
    Drive 45 minutes south on the P2017 to the Ourika Valley. Stop at Argan oil cooperative en route; arrive Setti Fatma by 11:30.
    Afternoon
    Berber riverside lunch on a wooden platform over the Ourika River: tagine, harira, communal-oven khobz, mint tea. Optional 1.5-hour hike to the waterfalls afterward.
    Evening
    Return to Marrakech by 17:30. Final dinner at Dar Yacout (closed Mondays); 700 MAD tasting menu in palace riad with Atlas-foothill views.

Marrakech vegetarian and women-run kitchens: one full day ★ 4.5

Vegetarian or values-driven traveller, one day1 day

A one-day route through Marrakech's vegetarian rooms and its training-restaurant model: La Famille's garden, Amal Center's women-from-difficult-backgrounds kitchen, Limoni's Italian-Moroccan dinner.

  1. Day 1: Day 1: La Famille garden lunch, Amal Center afternoon coffee, Limoni dinner

    Morning
    Walk the southern medina from Bahia Palace and arrive at La Famille on Riad Zitoun el Jdid for the 12:00 opening. The cooked-from-the-garden vegetarian set menu changes daily; sit in the courtyard under the olive trees. Two courses and a fresh juice runs around 180 MAD; pay in cash.
    Afternoon
    Cross to Gueliz for an afternoon at Amal Center Gueliz, the training restaurant for disadvantaged Moroccan women that opened in 2013. The set lunch of tagine, salads and msemmen runs until 15:30; if you arrive late, the courtyard serves mint tea and pastries until close.
    Evening
    Dinner at Limoni in the medina from 19:00 (closed Sundays). The Italian-Moroccan menu: handmade pasta with preserved lemon, slow-braised lamb with quince, dark-chocolate-tahini dessert. The courtyard is candlelit and books out on weekends.

Marrakech specialty coffee trail: medina to Sidi Ghanem ★ 4.4

Coffee-focused, one day1 day

A one-day trail that follows Marrakech's third-wave coffee scene from the Dar el Bacha palace down to the Sidi Ghanem roasteries: Bacha, MARH, Marrakech Coffee Co, HESPERIS.

  1. Day 1: Day 1: Bacha palace morning, MARH late morning, Sidi Ghanem roasteries

    Morning
    Open at Bacha Coffee in the Dar el Bacha palace from 10:00 (closed Mondays). Pick one of the 200 single-origin pours table-side; the gold-rimmed setting is the spectacle. The pastry counter sells pain au chocolat and almond financiers; the gift-shop bags travel well.
    Afternoon
    Walk to MARH Coffee Roasters in Gueliz for late morning. Single-origin Ethiopian and Burundi pours, hand-roasted on site. The flat white is the order. Behind the bar the roaster runs through the morning; the menu changes weekly.
    Evening
    Drive 15 minutes north to the Sidi Ghanem industrial district for the afternoon roasteries: Marrakech Coffee Co opens until 18:00, HESPERIS Coffee Factory until 18:00. Both run cupping flights; HESPERIS holds Saturday afternoon roastery tours when booked ahead.

Marrakech tasting-menu pilgrimage: three dinners, three rooms ★ 4.8

Tasting-menu pilgrim, three nights3 days

Three consecutive evenings across the rooms that define Marrakech fine dining: Le Tobsil's 11-course Moroccan in the medina, La Grande Table Marocaine at the Royal Mansour, +61's modern-Australian in Gueliz.

  1. Day 1: Day 1: Le Tobsil 11-course Moroccan tasting

    Morning
    Rest day. Walk the souks south of Jemaa el-Fna in the late afternoon; pace coffees and pastries through the day.
    Afternoon
    Late-afternoon mint tea on the Cafe des Epices rooftop over Rahba Kedima.
    Evening
    Le Tobsil at 19:30 on Derb Abdullah Ben Hessaien (closed Tuesdays; book one week ahead). The 11-course Moroccan tasting menu runs around 700 MAD; pigeon pastilla, slow-cooked lamb tangia, the wide spread of salads and the live Gnaoua music in the riad's ground-floor courtyard.

  2. Day 2: Day 2: La Grande Table Marocaine at the Royal Mansour

    Morning
    Walk Bab Doukkala for breakfast at the msemen counters; pair with a fresh orange juice from the souk.
    Afternoon
    Hammam afternoon at one of the medina spas (Heritage Spa, Les Bains de Marrakech).
    Evening
    La Grande Table Marocaine at the Royal Mansour from 19:00 (dress code: smart). The chef Massimiliano Alajmo's seven-course Moroccan tasting; the courtyard service, the silver tagine ritual, the dessert trolley wheeled across the marble floor. Around 1200 MAD pp without pairing.

  3. Day 3: Day 3: +61 modern Australian in Gueliz

    Morning
    Coffee at MARH Coffee Roasters in Gueliz.
    Afternoon
    Walk Gueliz: Marche Central, Boutique 16, the small concept stores on Rue Tarik Ibn Ziad. Light lunch at La Famille or skip.
    Evening
    +61 from 19:30 in Gueliz (closed Sundays). Andrew Cibej and Cassandra Karinsky's modern-Australian kitchen: wood-fired bream, Sydney coffee program, a chef's-counter format with the open kitchen on display. The MENA 50 Best room and the most-booked Gueliz reservation in town.
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