Fes Restaurants

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Around medina, you can find easly small stalls where people stop for a quick-meal, a kind of "moroco- fast food". Nice people take care of you, frying sardines in front of you, speaking french - english as much as they know, it's really a nice chance to get as a first time into moroco dayly life style.

Favorite Dish: MY FAVORITE DISH? well, there offered only smoked sardines and some marinated meat ( i guess it was chicken) and also pita bread.

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Very nice restaurant/café with an excellent view of Fez. It is run by british people. They offer a variety of maroccan, english and continental food for reasonable prices. It's a good place for a breakfast or a dinner, or just having a rest and watching the hundreds of swollows which meet and fly every evening near Bab Bou Jeloud.

They also offer some cultural events, like fashion shows, live music and arabic courses.
By the time I was there, they had an open Wi-Fi too. So I could check my mails.

You'll the find the restaurant by walking down the Talaa Kbira from Bab Bou Jeloud for about 150 meter. A blue sign on the right side is indicating to the left. Take the (unbelievable dark and narrow) alley to your left for about 40 meter.
The Café got it's name from the medieval waterclock, which you'll find next to Café Clock. Unfortunately the waterclock it's still not working (in July 2008).

The Nejjarine woodwork museum has a very nice cafe on the rooftop. It is quiet and peaceful and has some great views over Fes. I`m not sure though if they have anything on the menu except sweet mint tea.

Thami is a nice old guy who has a street food restaurant at a corner of the Place Bou Jeloud just before Rue Talla Seghira begins. This is the best spot for people-watching in Fes in my opinion, and the food is pretty good & cheap, too (expect to pay no more than 100 Dirham for three courses). My favourite dish is the "couscous with grilled vegetables".

I am not sure if I got the name right and I didn`t find this restaurant in any guide books, and above all, I wouldn`t find my way there back in the maze that the Fes medina is, but if you stay at Dar-el-Hana as I suggest, the host Josephine can organize that someone from the restaurant takes you there (and back). The restaurant had a stylish moroccan interior and the food was awesome, the portions huge, the prices fair, the service friendly. Especially the starter assortment was a treat !

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This restaurnat is inside the Medina...a small but warm place...very nice....excelent food.....the tea is incredible....
You can go there and be sure to come out quite pleased....
I went there with two friends and we were simply impressed as they kept bringing us these incredible dishes !!
We found the restaurant as we were getting los in the Medina...it was just a coincidence to find it...a great conicidence.

The adress is: 4, Derb Jeniara Fes Medina
Phone: 055 74 1210

Very unusual restaurant with faux-log cabin interior, smoky ambience Eric Clapton on the jukebox and that luxuries of luxuries alcohol! Albeit the local Moroccan brews "Flag" and "Stork" both of which are pretty naff to be honest! Vast cheap menu with enormous steaks through to the commonplace tajine and couscous.
Friendly staff and a nice place in which to relax away from the chaos on the streets and the constant hawking from would-be tour guides! Hidden away down a sidestreet yards from the major intersection of the two boulevards through the old town.
Nice to find a restaurant without garish rugs and typical ethnic interior and verging on the humorous as you are transported to the forests of Montana despite being in Africa!

Favorite Dish: Absolutely enormous dirt cheap steaks that are not full of gristle like most others in the country. £3 for a massive rump steak mmm

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You can certainly find cheaper places to eat in the Medina than Le Kasbah but with excellent food, good service and a rooftop terrace, it's well worth a visit. Located in a great location at the entrance to the medina just inside Bab-Bou Jeloud, Le Kasbah is hard to miss and there are waiters outside ready to pounce on any tourist who walks by. But don't let that or the fact that only tourists seem to eat here put you off.

I was very tempted by the three course menu for 70Dh but as they give you so much bread, dips and side-dishes the single main course for 40 Dh was a wise choice. We both had lamb tagines. The total cost was 99Dh for two including water & mint-tea.

We ate here again on our second visit to Fes, this time on the rooftop terrace, from where there are excellent views of Bab Bou Jeloud and the medina. The food was just as good as last time. Ruth had couscous with chicken while I had the vegetable tagine.