The best restaurants Ouarzazate & Area

This is a typical place near the Taourirt kasbah, where you can taste local specialities such as the camel tagine! This establishment is articulated on several floors and benefits from a terrace with a pleasant view. An excellent price-quality ratio, a design decoration of the restaurant that harmoniously blends East and West, assortments of stuffed briouates, fresh goat cheese from the village women and serves a delicious argan ice cream... In short, the choice is vast and you no longer have any reason to hesitate.

Open since 1928, Le Dimitri has a solid reputation in Ouarzazate. The atmosphere is pleasant and European there, the crockery is great and the photos of stars on the walls give the impression of being in a society lounge. Because it is a whole institution in Ouarzazate: the places were first used as gas station, supermarket, dance hall, post office, before being converted into a restaurant. Among the pictures hanging on the walls, many of them tell this story, and with it, that of Ouarzazate. The restaurant is named after its founder, of Greek origin, one of the "fathers" of the city. The menu offers a good Dimitri salad and many delicious comfits or duck breasts. For a quiet evening around a good meal.

Benoît and Stéphanie, your hosts and a couple of stuntmen in their spare time, welcome you warmly in this restaurant located near the palm grove. You will be able to taste a Moroccan cuisine with, among others, a dromedary tajine or a pigeon pastilla, without forgetting some European dishes like the duck breast with honey. The setting is refined and the atmosphere is often perfect. Spa also available for the amateurs of care.

Restaurant serving excellent local cuisine, set back from the main road on a shady terrace. Couscous and Berber tajines or vegetables to order. Clean, tasty and hearty, especially the tajine. A curiosity: goat's cheese produced by a women's cooperative in the Skoura palm grove. Vegan dishes are also available. A charming address that delights the taste buds and often keeps customers coming back for more. All this in an unreal setting that has inspired numerous films.

Very well placed, this property has the advantage of having many terraces where the view on the casbah is magnificent. The kitchen is prétention, the quality of the dishes is variable. À la carte, tajines, couscous and skewers, salads and sandwiches. This address will be chosen above all for its location. Large parking lot.

In a superb setting, good Moroccan or international cuisine.

The kitchen is good, and the dining room, with its richly decorated ceilings, is very pleasant. Before dining, take the time to relax with a drink in the bar next to the swimming pool.

Moroccan cuisine simple and good.

Here's a popular restaurant right in the center of town, where you can enjoy good skewers and grilled meats cooked in the open air. Specializing in grilled meats, you can also order tajines, meats with prunes or delicious lemon chicken. Here, people sit on the terrace around shared tables, giving you the chance to get to know your neighbors! A victim of its own success, the restaurant is very popular at lunchtime, but places are easily filled.

It is the same house as the grocery store Chez Michèle in Tinghir and the campsite located in Goulmina. On the menu: duck gizzards confit, duck breast with honey sauce, prime rib with morels and floating islands... These are just some of the specialties of this restaurant that will delight your taste buds. We also serve very good Moroccan cuisine in a European lounge on the first floor or in a traditional lounge upstairs. Michèle and Ahmed, the owners, have also opened a pastry shop and tea room in town.

When you arrive from the main road, at the mosque, you have to go straight on towards the river, and go down the stairs to arrive on the superb terrace of Abdeljalil, owner of the café-restaurant Tighremt. Here, we order freshly squeezed orange juice and a delicious Berber omelette prepared by his wife, Samira. A pleasant break with a panoramic view of the Ksar, and children reaching out to tourists to take them across the river in exchange for a few dirhams. A warm welcome.

Here's an address that perfectly reflects the soul of the region. You stop here almost by chance, on a day out among the rocky regs. The welcome is warm in every way, provided by an attentive and smiling Abdellah, who will go out of his way to bring you your freshly prepared meal in the shade. While the menus are basic, the Moroccan salad is traditionally made and carefully presented. Tented accommodation is also available to extend the evening into the night. One of our favorites of 2024.

Don't miss this little restaurant, located just over the former Almou bridge and on the banks of the wadi. The cuisine is excellent and the terrace overlooks the entire wadi. The inn is set in a beautiful rose garden, and you can also sleep in one of the reasonably-priced double rooms with en suite facilities. Pastilla is the house specialty. A warm welcome from Hamed. The hotel's strategic location makes it easy to discover the many hidden treasures in the area.

This is an inexpensive restaurant frequented by tourists on their way to the desert of Merzouga or the imperial city of Fez. Lunch is served on a roadside terrace or in a room with no particular charm. The menu features tajines, brochettes, pizzas, couscous or omelettes, with a Moroccan soup or salad as starter and a small piece of cake for dessert. A tea, without much flavor, is served as a digestive, before you hit the road again. Service, in English, is rushed and impersonal.

Here, the specialties are Moroccan, the setting is welcoming and the service is excellent. Delicious tajines, tasty grills and hearty couscous are to be tasted while taking in the view of the city, installed on one of the two pleasant terraces, offering nice views of Ouarzazate. Also pasta dishes and good pizzas to change the local dishes. And know that the Kasbah Tafarnout also serves Moroccan breakfasts with delicious pancakes. Smiling and attentive staff. An address that we recommend.

Ideally located on the main avenue of Zagora, this small unpretentious restaurant offers a wide choice of typical Moroccan dishes (couscous, tajines). A good address to eat quickly and without ruining yourself. Popular, it also gathers many inhabitants of Zagora who come to perpetuate the tradition of Moroccan tea, to discuss while sipping a coffee, and to linger while watching the onlookers cross the city. Perfect for a stop in a day of souvenir shopping in the main artery of this desert gateway.

12 km from Erfoud, an authentic address lost in the middle of nowhere. On the menu, an original Moroccan and Berber cuisine, made of local and seasonal products. The setting is worth the detour for the panoramic view on the dunes of Erg Chebbi from the terrace. Excellent service and hearty meals. Think of calling before you go there. The establishment is also a guest house, the rates are a bit high, but the service is still of high quality... Nice swimming pool and excursions in the desert. Nice welcome from Hassan and his team, friendly and willing.

A table d'hôte in an exceptional setting, with a view of the valley of m'Goum, Tassaout and Tichka. Salad, fish, and other dishes cooked in the Moroccan way, a treat and attractive prices. A smiling and endearing staff. The pretty swimming pool is at your disposal, the occasion to refresh yourself and to spend a pleasant moment in an establishment thought with taste. Abdel's welcome is warm and sincere. A good address with a shaded terrace, and a traditional hammam to relax after a long day of visit in the region.

On the roadside, this traditional restaurant is a great place to stop for a cool lunch, or on the sunny terrace with a breathtaking view of the Sahara dunes. The best Berber desert pizzas, the house specialty, can be ordered in advance. Here, it's the women who do the cooking. Salads, tajines, kebabs, couscous, pizzas and other local dishes are all fresh, well prepared and tasty. Sometimes, Ibrahim, the owner, prepares the dishes himself, especially for mechouis events. Fast, attentive service.

A large establishment on two floors. 300 covers on a dozen Moroccan lounges and a traditional patio. All Moroccan and Berber specialities.