8 Best Restaurants in The Southern Atlantic Coast, Morocco

Le 116

$ Fodor's choice

Small but buzzy, this cash-only salad-and-crepe bar offers great-value healthy snacks and small meals, including DIY salads, quiches, and panini. It attracts local office workers, foreign residents, and tourists for its healthy food, excellent Italian espresso, and fresh juices and smoothies. Take a form and pen and design your own salad, picking the size, base, ingredients, and dressing to suit. It's often packed by midday, but service is fast.

116, av. des Forces Armées Royales, Agadir, Souss-Massa, 80000, Morocco
0528-82–03–12
Known For
  • fast service
  • salads in three sizes
  • lots of vegetarian options
Restaurants Details
Rate Includes: Closed Sun. and during Ramadan

Boulangerie Pâtisserie Tafarnout

$

A good stop in the center of town, this popular bakery serves a wide range of breads, cakes, and traditional Moroccan pastries for breakfast, lunch, or a light snack. Highlights include buttery croissants, indulgent cakes, savory panini, and sandwiches. Enjoy them on the street-side terrace of the attached café and watch the world go by.

Av. Hassan II, Agadir, Souss-Massa, Morocco
0528-84–44–50
Known For
  • delicious French pastries
  • good, fast service
  • excellent coffee
Restaurants Details
Rate Includes: No dinner

Dar Mounia

$$ | Medina

Located in the heart of the medina, this unpretentious Moroccan restaurant is spacious and cool. Hidden among the extensive menu of couscous, tagine, and pastilla variations are a few refreshing surprises like a grilled zucchini short-crust tart or a marinated fish kebab. Wash it down with a zingy freshly squeezed lemon juice with ginger. Along with good food and decent prices, there's also a kids' menu. No alcohol is served.

2, rue Laalouj, Essaouira, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
0524-47–29–88
Known For
  • lemon juice with ginger
  • simple, tasty food at a reasonable price
  • credit cards not accepted

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Gelateria Dolce Freddo

$

Come here for the best coffee and the best ice cream in town; its location on the main square is also great for people-watching.  Pick a shady seat on the inside of the terrace under a parasol to avoid the passing street hawkers.

Pl. Moulay Hassan, Essaouira, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
0663-57–19–28
Known For
  • homemade gelato
  • varieties of coffee drinks
  • cash required for payment

Les Blancs

$$$$

At the edge of Agadir's trendy Marina district, Les Blancs is a shiny, white, modernist retreat serving colorful Spanish paellas, including black squid ink rice, green rice with veggies, and red king prawns. In addition to the contemporary indoor dining room, an informal bar-cum-restaurant with boardwalk-style flooring and huge windows overlooks the bay, as does the outdoor terrace with woven seagrass umbrellas. 

Agadir, Souss-Massa, 80000, Morocco
0528-82–83–68
Known For
  • good wine selection
  • Spanish-style tapas
  • reservations advised in high season

Let's Be Healing Food

$$$

Located in Tamraght, a small surf village 15 km (9 miles) north of Agadir, this oasis of mostly plant-based and wellness-oriented foods is an unconventional experience for Morocco. The bright space is decorated with traditional artifacts and plants, and the menu consists of vegan breakfasts, gluten-free pancakes and pizzas, rice bowls, and vegan and fish tacos with homemade harissa. Recently Ismael, the owner, has opened a second dining room and added meat dishes to the menu, reflecting his experiences traveling and living in Australia. 

Pâtisserie Driss

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This local institution off the main square dates back to 1929. Prices are very reasonable, so you can start your day with great coffee and breakfasts; you can also take your pick from the French and Moroccan pastries baked fresh every day.  Take away some cakes and coffee in the late afternoon and eat them at one of the cafés on the square—it's what the locals do.

9, rue el Hajjali, Essaouira, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
0524-47–27–93
Known For
  • cheap eats with local flavor
  • generously sized pastries
  • cash required for payment

Restaurant Marrakech

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Haute cuisine it isn't, but the tagines here are fresh and cheap and appreciated by many locals. The cool, fresh-squeezed juices make this a nice spot to catch your breath and get out of the sun.

Tafraoute, Souss-Massa, Morocco
0663-22–92–50
Known For
  • popular with locals as well as tourists
  • cleanliness and simplicity
  • credit cards not accepted