The Best Places to Eat Near Spa Royal Mansour Marrakech, by the Record
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The kitchen team here spends part of each year traveling Morocco to unearth courtly and regional home recipes, then brings French technique to bear on what they find. The result is Moroccan fine dining that goes well past tagine and couscous, landing on dishes the country's culinary history almost forgot. It sits inside the Royal Mansour, so the room is suitably spectacular. It appears on MENA's 50 Best Restaurants list.
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Rank 2. Le Petit Cornichon
French
Cerulean blue walls and sunny yellow accents set the tone for this French bistro with serious culinary ambitions, tucked into a Marrakesh side street. The chef works with local, seasonal Moroccan produce and folds it into a menu that reads Parisian but tastes of somewhere specific. A terrace, a wine cellar running past 300 bottles, and a set lunch that draws a crowd who know to come back, it landed at number 21 on MENA's 50 Best Restaurants list.
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Rank 3. +61
Australian
The name is Australia's country code, which tells you where the team's head is, even if the room is in Marrakech's Gueliz neighborhood. Moss green banquettes and blush marble make it feel bright at lunch and candlelit at dinner, and the menu runs the same casual line: steak sandwiches, pickled sardines, a Lamington for dessert. It landed on MENA's 50 Best Restaurants list, and the room on any given night looks like half of Marrakech already knows each other.
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An open kitchen anchors a stripped-back Art Deco space in Guéliz, where the menu changes whenever the permaculture farm on the city's outskirts decides it's ready. Farmers is a vegetable-forward restaurant that partners with a single organic farm, Sanctuary Slimane, and lets that relationship dictate the whole program. The chef uses fermentation, preserving, and slow roasting to do the heavy lifting. It holds a spot on MENA's 50 Best Restaurants list.
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