Street Food

Msemen & Baghrir: Morocco’s Beloved Flatbreads Explained In a Moroccan neighborhood in the morning, you smell them before you see them: butter hitting a hot griddle, the sweet steam of fresh bread. Two flatbreads rule the morning — msemen and baghrir. Travelers often confuse them, and many guidebooks lump both together as “Moroccan pancakes.” They

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