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 the rooftops - Kabana, MY Kechmara - trade 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.
Rooftop cocktail bar with Atlas Mountain views and drinks that lean on Moroccan spices. A DJ takes over on weekends and nobody seems to mind the volume.
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 splits cleanly: Bacha Coffee pours 100-plus single-origins in a restored riad that takes itself seriously, while HeiBai roasts its own beans for pour-overs behind floor-to-ceiling glass. kartell kollektiv is where the laptop crowd actually works, and Atay's rooftop on Rue Amsafah trades pretense for a clean Koutoubia view.
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, which is the point.
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.
Multi-level café on Rue Amsafah that pays off if you climb to the roof, where misters cool the terrace and the Koutoubia sits in plain view. Tagines and kefta share the menu with avocado salads. Part of a small group with Dazwina and Riad Rose.
Grand cafe in a restored riad pouring from over 100 single-origin coffees, filter or espresso. The setting feels like drinking in someone's very elegant private library.
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