Map55 Places for Dinner Outside in Marrakech
For much of the year the best seat in Marrakech is an open-air one. A guide to eating under the stars, from medina rooftops and palace gardens to the pavement tables of Gueliz.

A restored rabbi's house in the Kasbah holds seven thousand objects of adornment from across the world, three thousand of them on show, opening with a horse named Mansour. Le MAP is Marrakech's quietest argument that jewelry is a form of history.

In a restored riad near the Medersa Ben Youssef, the most ordinary drink in Morocco is served twelve ways, one for each region of the country. A quiet argument about time, place, and how a nation can be tasted rather than described.

A facade in Marrakech tells you nothing. The district behind it tells you everything. A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to where to stay, from the Medina to the Palmeraie to the open country beyond, and the kind of traveller each quarter quietly suits.

Behind an unmarked blue door off Boulevard Mansour Eddahbi, a 1930s pétanque club has reopened as the most cinematic outdoor bar in Guéliz, run by the man who has spent fifteen years giving Marrakech back its lost addresses.
Editor's Pick
BEST OF | EAT & DRINK
Twenty addresses, seven contexts: from a mechoui counter in Mechoui Alley to the fine-dining room at Royal Mansour. The Timence selection of restaurants in Marrakech that a first-time visitor should know.
Read the story →