Mid-Range in Marrakech

MARH Coffee Roasters

• ★ 4.7
• Coffee roaster
• $$
• Gueliz

MARH Coffee Roasters in Marrakech's Gueliz is the city's serious-coffee specialty cafe: V60, AeroPress, espresso pulled to international third-wave standard.

Amal Center Gueliz

• ★ 4.5
• Moroccan
• $$
• Gueliz

Order Whatever the daily plate is; the Friday couscous is the standing classic.

Amal Center in Marrakech's Gueliz trains disadvantaged women in Moroccan cooking and serves the practice meals as lunch; non-profit, founded 2012.

La Famille

• ★ 4.5
• Vegetarian
• $$
• Medina

Order Whatever the day's pasta is; finish with the raspberry ricotta cheesecake.

La Famille in Marrakech's Bab Mellah is a women-run vegetarian garden restaurant; concise rotating menu, leafy courtyard, the calmest medina lunch room.

HESPERIS Coffee Factory

• ★ 4.5
• Coffee roaster
• $$
• Sidi Ghanem

HESPERIS Coffee Factory in Marrakech's Sidi Ghanem industrial district is the city's most serious specialty roaster: full-traceability beans, on-site cafe.

L'Mida

• ★ 4.4
• Moroccan
• $$
• Medina

Order The Berber gnocchi (Italian technique with Moroccan spice), then lamb chops on the rooftop.

L'Mida sits two levels above Rahba Kedima in Marrakech, plating modern Moroccan fusion with rooftop Atlas views and a strict no-alcohol policy.

Patisserie Amandine

• ★ 4.4
• Bakery
• $$
• Gueliz

Order Opera cake and cornes de gazelle

Patisserie Amandine in Marrakech's Gueliz, since 1997, runs the city's best French-Moroccan bakery counter; viennoiseries, flans, almond pastries.

Naranj

• ★ 4.3
• Lebanese
• $$
• Medina

Order Build a meal from the mezze, then the chargrilled lamb shawarma plate.

Naranj on Riad Zitoun el Jdid is the Marrakech medina Lebanese spot: a Lebanese-Syrian husband-and-wife team plate mezze and grills on a rooftop terrace.

Le Jardin

• ★ 4.3
• Moroccan
• $$
• Medina

Order Tanjia, the clay-urn lamb served straight from the amphora, with khobz bread.

Kamal Laftimi's emerald-green oasis hidden in the Marrakech souks, Le Jardin plates Moroccan classics and bistro food in a 16th-century riad.

Cafe Clock

• ★ 4.3
• Café
• $$
• Kasbah

Drink Mint tea

Cafe Clock in Marrakech's Kasbah is a cross-cultural meeting room: camel-burger signature, live music Wednesdays, traditional storytelling, calligraphy.

Kechmara

• ★ 4.2
• Mediterranean
• $$
• Gueliz

Order The all-day burger and a glass of Moroccan red on the rooftop; live jazz some nights.

Kechmara on Marrakech's Rue de la Liberte runs an all-day bistro-bar with rooftop terrace; 70s interior, alcohol licence, and busy jazz nights in Gueliz.

Marrakech Coffee Co.

• ★ 4.2
• Coffee roaster
• $$
• Sidi Ghanem

Marrakech Coffee Co. roasts small-batch specialty beans at Sidi Ghanem; the brand stocks cafes city-wide, with whole-bean retail through Marrakech Fine Food.

Kechmara Bar

• ★ 4.2
• Cocktail bar
• $$
• Gueliz

Drink Moroccan red on the rooftop

Kechmara on Marrakech's Rue de la Liberte runs an all-day bar-restaurant: 70s-vibe ground floor, jazz on busy nights, rooftop drinks till 02:00 in Gueliz.

Latitude 31

• ★ 4.1
• Moroccan
• $$
• Bab Doukkala

Order Whichever revisited tagine is on the day's blackboard; the kitchen rotates seasonally.

Latitude 31 near Marrakech's Bab Doukkala gate serves revisited Moroccan in an orange-tree courtyard, a quieter alternative to the souk-side rooftops.

Limoni

• ★ 4.1
• Italian
• $$
• Medina

Order Whichever fresh pasta the kitchen made that morning; ask the server for the day's batch.

Limoni in north Marrakech medina is a quiet riad-kitchen running honest Italian pasta and pizza around a courtyard with a heavy old lemon tree.

Mama Afrika

• ★ 4.0
• West African
• $$
• Gueliz

Order The Afro-fusion bowl of the week; the vegan menu is one of the deepest in Gueliz.

Mama Afrika in Marrakech's Gueliz plates Afro-fusion under tribal-art ceilings, with a vegan-friendly menu and Monday-night live reggae-jazz Mama Jam sets.

Earth Cafe

• ★ 4.0
• Vegetarian
• $$
• Medina

Order Whatever the daily vegan tagine is, plus a juice from the cold-press counter.

Earth Cafe on Riad Zitoun el Kedim was Marrakech's first vegetarian restaurant: nine plates daily, three floors of alcoves, farm-to-table sourcing model.

Casablanca Beer and Flag Speciale (on tap, city-wide)

• ★ 3.5
• Brewery
• $$
• Hivernage

Morocco's national lagers Casablanca Beer and Flag Speciale, brewed in Casablanca by SBM, are the default tap pour at Marrakech's hotel bars and rooftops.