If Morocco had to be summed up in a single dish, it would be the tagine. Ask for “the tagine” in just about any restaurant in the country and something wonderful will arrive at your table, still bubbling, in the very pot it cooked in. The word means two things at once: the slow-cooked stew,
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Breads and Fried Snacks: How the Day Starts The Moroccan street-food day begins early, and it begins with dough. Breakfast stalls and griddle carts appear in the medina before most shops open, and office workers stop for something hot on their way in. Msemen is the square, flaky flatbread you will see folded and griddled
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How to read prices in Morocco All prices in Morocco are in dirhams (MAD). When this guide was published, 1 USD bought roughly 10 dirhams and 1 EUR bought roughly 11, so a 10-dirham item costs about a dollar. Coins of 1, 2, 5 and 10 dirhams and notes of 20, 50, 100 and 200
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The gargote: Morocco’s beloved workers’ canteen The gargote is the most Moroccan of all restaurant types: a tiny, no-frills canteen feeding workers, taxi drivers and students. Expect plastic tables, a handwritten or memorized menu, and some of the best cooking in the country. What to expect: a short menu of tagines, tagine varieties, couscous on
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Ouzoud Falls food guide: Berber tagines on cliff terraces facing the 110m falls — menus, prices, and day-trip timing from Marrakech.
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Jemaa el-Fna: Marrakech’s open-air food court at dusk — 100+ numbered stalls, grills, tagines and snail soup. What to eat, stall numbers, prices.
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