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We visited a few different food markets during our stay in Marrakech. Probably the most interesting was a large covered market - Souq el Kheir, which is located on Avenue Houmman el Fetouaki, close to Qzadria Square. There were some unusual foods on offer here, and the market was filled with local women doing their daily/weekly shop. The meat at the butchers looked particularly good here.
We also had a wander through the Bab Doukkala food souq, which not only has food stalls but shops selling attractive cooking pots so you can make your own tajine back home.
We stumbled across a large (possibly wholesale) fruit & vegetable market which was located just off Boulevard Allal al Fassi, between the Jardin Majorelle and the bus station. We had a look around there for a while, but we soon became unpopular for taking photos so we quickly moved on.
Also, at the start of the Medina souqs, close to Djemaa el-Fna, there are some interesting food stalls with jars of colourful olives and preserved vegetables. And don't miss the stalls selling big bags of mint - perfect for a nice afternoon cup of mint tea Leave a Comment Theme: Food and DrinkDirections: In the Medina
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Marrakeshis do their "grocery" shopping for the most part in various areas of the souks as well as at tiny little closet-sized stores at which you walk up and tell the man behind the counter what it is you want, and amazingly, he'll probably have it somewhere right behind him (eggs, shampoo, what have you). However, you will not find beer or wine within the souks or at the closet-sized stores.
This means you must trek into the ville nouveau. No worries, just take Mohammed V boulevard (on foot, by taxi, galeche or bus) in the direction of the new city. Acima exists on Mohammed V boulevard.
Here you'll find a traditional grocery with isles and isles of food, toiletries, cleaning supplies, a nice deli/bakery with a great "scoop-it-yourself" spice section (and olives! mmmm! get some olives). They've got a great cheese selection considering. And, an area at the opposite end of the store that contains quite a selection of wines (mostly French and Morrocan), beer and even liquor.
We came here to buy an assortment of cheeses and wine to share with our new friends that ran our riad.
Olives, spices, cheese, wine, beer...
Good cheese is priced SO much better than it is here, in the U.S., great brie, goat cheeses, etc. Big chunks for like $1.50! Bottles of wine are in the $5-8 range. Leave a Comment Theme: Food and DrinkDirections: ACIMA is at the corner of Mohammed V boulevard and Mohammed Smiha street
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On hte main squre you have at least 40 street karts selling and making orange juice.
orange juice fresh one. you can ask for no ice and on the hour for the real fresh one. they can have some orange juice already made, fresh anyway, but the real thing is the real thing.
very cheap: one big glass costs 1.5 dirham.
you can get a 1.5litre bottle for 10 dirhams 1 euro Leave a Comment Theme: Food and Drink
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Moroccan, is now one of my favourite cuisines, with it's tasty tagines, cous cous, etc.
Whenever I travel, I usually try to buy spices, a recipe book or other food related objects.
On this trip I bought a teracotta tagine (see my off the beaten tracks tips for more details) I'm afraid I haven't used this yet, it's more of an ornament at the moment, but I have cooked a few tagines using my old faithful cast iron casserole dish.
Argan oil (the new olive oil!!) Afraid I only bought a small bottle, for moisturising purposes from Essaouira- but I spent the exorbitant sum of £9 in Sainsburys for a bottle of organic Argan Oil for culinary purposes-
Top Tip- If You're visiting Essaouira, snap up a bottle or 2- or a crate load of Argan Oil, to sell to foodies back home for a fraction of the price of Sainsburys!! (See my Essaouira page for lots more info on Argan Oil
35 spices- a versatile spice mix, used in many Moroccan dishes, I've used most of mine already, in lots of non Moroccan dishes too.
All manner of foodie stuff
Cooking pots
Tagine cooking pots
Tea glasses and tea pots
Herbs
Spices - especially the 35 spices mix
Argan oil
Olive Oil
From very little to as much as you want! Leave a Comment Theme: Food and DrinkAddress: Souks and shops of Marrakesh and Essaouira
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This you'll find on the main square during night time on the street restaurants. only a few of those restaurants actually have vegetarian hahera. usually hahera is made with meat. to get all kinds of clients, they now have a special vegetarian one, very tasty all the time. You can go to Aicha restaurant number 1 to taste it. Leave a Comment Theme: Food and Drink
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From my journal:
'We stop at a spice store where all the shelves are full of jars with the most amazing things in them. Apart from the familiar and not so familiar spices, there are things like shells, dried insects, some sort of animal jaws with the teeth in them etc.
We are given a demonstration of a few spice mixtures – the saadia and the ras el hanout and others – various medicinal herbs – for sinuses, migraine, stress, rheumatism etc – and the herbs used for make up and shampoo. Very interesting.'
From my journal:
'I buy a couple of spice mixes and the sinus / migraine cure. My mum buys a ‘magic lipstick’ which is supposed to go darker the sexier the lady. It was pretty dark on my mum!' Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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In the streets you have hundreds of street shops selling these kinds of pastry. very tasty and you have all sorts. the majority have no eggs to be preserved better with the extrem heat of the city. Leave a Comment Theme: Food and Drink
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Street vendors go on the streets selling cheak peas which you can spice it up with some salt, pepper and cumins. very tasty indeed. the exact protein you need to walk in the suqs for hours and hours. Leave a Comment Theme: Food and Drink
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Go to the souk... wander about, get lost and try to find where they sell olives. Most likely there are several places - the one we found is somewhere off the covered souq...
Buy olives... green olives, black olives... all sorts of olives. Moroccan olives are quite delicious and worth bring home. They can make for a really tasty present or souvenir. Take your time, ask the vendor to let you taste some... you'll be hard pressed choosing the best ones.
Bargain a bit - but in general they cost very little Leave a Comment Theme: Food and DrinkDirections: in the souk, in the old medina
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A man with a small street kart selling home made milk shakes and yogurt. Very tasty the Yogurts. A must. Very cheap.
milk shakes with honey, strawberry and banana. also dates milk shake. Leave a Comment Theme: Food and Drink
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