Restaurants In Casablanca, Morocco Rick’s Café, famous thanks to the film Casablanca (1942), has been transformed. Set in an old courtyard-style mansion built among the walls of the Old Medina, Rick’s Café features a piano bar with replicas from the film – curved arches, balconies, and brass lighting. With four fireplaces and intimate private dining with a view of the fishing port, Rick’s Café offers an atmospheric experience, along with an international menu specializing in dishes made with Casablanca’s fresh seafood and vegetables.
An authentic and characterful seafood restaurant right in the center of the fishing harbor (the biggest in North Africa), there’s no better place for fresh seafood than Port de Pêche. Always packed, the restaurant’s guests can enjoy fish fresh from the sea. Its paella is also renowned, and guests can enjoy the comfortable 1970s decor of nets used as curtains and boating knots. The restaurant also provides professional and swift service.
The first Japanese restaurant in Casablanca is the place to enjoy the traditions of sushi, sashimi and makis while experiencing a live Teppan-Yaki performance, which showcases a true taste of Japan. Situated in the heart of the Sheraton Casablanca Hotel and Towers, Sakura takes guests to a land of tempting Japanese specialities. It’s an alternative to traditional Moroccan cuisine and is an example of the cosmopolitan and international nature of Casablanca. In the modern and elegant setting, guests can enjoy watching a range of meals being cooked right in front of their eyes on traditional Teppanyaki grills.
Offering a positively touristy experience, Dar Beida is not for the shy. With bellydancers to oriental orchestras demonstrating typically Arab fun and livening up the atmosphere while guests enjoy traditional cuisine, Dar Beida is as much about the ambiance and experience as it is about the food. Offering different regional tastes and culinary traditions, guests can enjoy the menu which brims over with options. Specializing in Moroccan specialities like tajine and couscous, guests can get a truly cultural experience at Dar Beida.
Offering a Spanish-inspired menu, this place provides a perfect detour from traditional Moroccan cuisine. With a varied tapas menu, and even a bar downstairs complete with a DJ and a dance floor with Latino and Salsa evenings, La Bodega offers a fun night. So for tapas, drinks, and an enjoyable evening, La Bodega is the place to be.
Le Relais de Paris is Casablanca’s haven of French culinary delights. Situated in the popular La Corniche beach region, Le Relais de Paris offers the chance for guests to taste delicious French food while enjoying a panoramic view of the sea. With enticing flavors, a comfortable setting, and self-proclaimed refined style, Le Relais de Paris has a mix of tradition and modern elegance to entice customers. On the menu you can find fish, meat and even spaghetti. Given its location inside the Villa Blanca Hotel, guests can even pop up to the famous Skybar following a satisfying meal.
This supercool spot takes its inspiration from global flavours, mixing them with Moroccan produce and European culinary techniques. The result is creative dishes that taste as good as they look – such as Zulu, a black-bread burger with fig sauce. There’s plenty for vegetarians too, all washed down with delicious juices. The soundtrack is an equally fabulous fusion.
This fine-dining Moroccan restaurant is set in an exquisite space at the art deco Hôtel Le Doge. With its red-velvet chairs, ornate stained-glass ceiling, marble floors and sparkling chandeliers, it’s like stepping into the 1930s. Perfectly prepared dishes include a lightly spiced shrimp and monkfish tajine and a sinful chocolate fondant.
The contrast of magnificent architecture and unforgettable history makes Casablanca a fascinating place to visit. It is the amazing city that is gaining in popularity every year as it becomes cheaper to fly to Morocco.
Morocco had always been a country I was curious about. It’s blend of North African and Arabic influences gave it this air of mystique that drew me in. Plus, you know, I like couscous. So I had high expectations when I decided to pop over from Spain and explore the country for three weeks.
