15 addresses where Gueliz actually eats.
Al Fassia on Boulevard Mohamed Zerktouni has an all-female kitchen turning out the city's most authoritative tagines - the Friday seven-vegetable couscous draws a devoted weekly crowd. Plus61 does a properly pulled flat white alongside a sun-drenched terrace. The gallery strip on Rue de Yougoslavie does Thursday evening openings with free wine. BAROMETRE on Rue Moulay Ali has the best negroni variations in the city; arrive before 10pm or stand.
15 addresses across restaurants, bars, and cafes - all in Gueliz.
Gueliz eats range from Al Fassia's all-female kitchen on Boulevard Mohamed Zerktouni to Grand Café de la Poste's 1920s brasserie staircase and Plus61's Andrew Cibej cooking across from the Cinéma Colisée. Mizaan pulls Moroccan apart with restraint on Avenue Mohammed V; Amal trains the women cooking your lunch. Pick your register and book ahead.
Nonprofit restaurant training disadvantaged women in Moroccan cooking, with a daily-changing lunch menu and traditional Friday couscous. The food stands entirely on its own merits.
Modern Moroccan on Avenue Mohammed V, ambitious without showing off. Familiar flavors get pulled apart and put back together with restraint, plated like they mean it. The cooking holds up its end too.
Across from the Cinéma Colisée, Cassandra Karinsky and Sebastian de Gzell teamed with chef Andrew Cibej for a Gueliz dining room kitted out in ceramics and furniture from local artisans. Bread, pasta, cheese, and yogurt are made daily; expect chargrilled octopus with chimichurri, black squid linguine, and a pomegranate spritz.
All-female kitchen turning out the city's most authoritative tagines and couscous. Friday's seven-vegetable version draws a devoted weekly crowd that books days ahead.
Historic 1920s French brasserie with Carrara marble tables, a remarkable double-flight staircase, and live jazz evenings. Order the Grand Marnier soufflé and don't share it.
Gueliz drinks better than it used to. Barometre runs a rotating negroni list that rewards regulars, l'envers stacks electro across two floors of concrete and raw wood, and Pointbar hides behind a grey door with a roof that retracts in summer and a DJ working the room until 2am. MY Kechmara trades Atlas views for gin and vinyl. Entrepotes hides its courtyard behind Carré Eden.
Amber light, low murmur, bartenders working with jiggers and intent. The negroni list rotates weekly, so regulars ask what's new. Show up before 10 or you're standing. Gueliz's most serious cocktail room, full stop.
Tucked behind Carré Eden in a courtyard that opens to sky in summer and seals up come winter, the kitchen runs Mediterranean into Asian: salmon tataki with mango, briouates stuffed with fourme d'Ambert and anchovy. A DJ spins by the retro bar most nights.
A grey door on a quiet Gueliz street opens onto a bamboo-screened bar and a patio full of low sofas and pouffes under a roof that retracts in summer. Chef Faical Zahraoui plates black mushroom ravioli and duck confit while a DJ works the room until 2am.
Rooftop in Gueliz where Marrakchi artists nurse gin cocktails over vinyl sets. The tagine's better than it has any right to be, and nobody bothers leaving before midnight.
Morocco's first electro bar, opened in 2018, with two floors of exposed wood, raw concrete, and rotating local art. Late-night electronic music and gastronomic bagels coexist without contradiction.
Gueliz's coffee scene divides in two: MARH Coffee Roasters pours 100% Ethiopian Arabica roasted in-house on Rue Oued El Makhazine, while HeiBai roasts its own beans for pour-overs behind floor-to-ceiling glass. kartell kollektiv is where the laptop crowd actually works, and Les Négociants has held its Place Abdelmoumen terrace since 1936, the neighborhood's living room.
Minimalist specialty coffee shop with its own roastery, serving single-origin pour-overs and pistachio matcha. Floor-to-ceiling glass floods the space with light, and the extraction is dead serious.
Raw concrete walls, rotating art, and Gueliz's young creatives hunched over laptops with turmeric lattes. The energy reads more shared studio than coffee shop, exactly as intended.
Born in Dakhla, this specialty roaster deals only in 100% Ethiopian Arabica, all sourced and roasted in-house, with fruity, floral, citrus notes worth ordering as a straight espresso. The Gueliz outpost on Rue Oued El Makhazine draws remote workers and breakfast regulars into a garden-equipped room.
Hybrid flower shop and cafe in Guéliz where specialty coffee, fresh floral design, and home decor share one integrated space. It smells incredible and the flat whites hold up.
Since 1936 the buttoned-up waiters here have worked the same corner of Avenue Mohammed V, delivering nus-nus (half coffee, half milk) to the art deco terrace. Order the "Berber cheeseburger," a pita stuffed with eggs and cheese, and watch Gueliz traffic snarl at the intersection below.
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