Where to Have Lunch in Gueliz: 5 Restaurants Worth Knowing
5 April 2026
From a colonial brasserie to Australian farm-to-fork, from Fassi home cooking to contemporary design — a considered selection in the ville nouvelle. The lunch scene in Gueliz has shifted. Marrakech's European quarter — the one with wide boulevards and 1920s facades, ten minutes by taxi from the medina — stopped being a fallback option long ago. Today, Gueliz is where a new generation of restaurateurs is redefining what it means to eat well in this city: with rigour, with design intent, with a serious relationship to local produce. Those cooking in Gueliz come from different trajectories. One has revived a 1930s building. Another left fashion to open a restaurant inspired by Melbourne. Another still defends a female culinary tradition that has endured for nearly four decades. What these addresses share is a quality that extends beyond the plate: a vision of how a restaurant should work — the space, the rhythm, the relationship with the person sitting at the table. These five are the lunch restaurants in Gueliz we recommend to anyone looking for something specific: not the longest list, but the most precise.
A 1925 French brasserie overlooking Place du 16 Novembre in Gueliz, restored by Studio KO with colonial elegance and Moorish detail. Classic Parisian dishes, a candlelit checkerboard floor, live jazz upstairs, and a wraparound terrace that runs from breakfast until late.
Angle Boulevard El Mansour Eddahbi et Avenue Imam، Marrakech 40000, Morocco
A sharing-plates restaurant on Avenue Mohammed V from the team behind L'Mida, where Abdel Alaoui's kitchen fuses Moroccan, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean flavours across dishes built for the centre of the table. The artisan-crafted interior shifts from relaxed dinner to cocktail-fuelled evening with a resident DJ, and a hidden speakeasy in the basement rewards those who stay late.
A tree-filled garden courtyard in Gueliz, hidden behind an Art Deco cinema and built around the original 1930s pétanque court. Restored by Kamal Laftimi with upcycled materials, vintage La Mamounia chairs, a library of poetry, and a mural-covered butchery room. Mediterranean cooking on local Moroccan produce, Soulshakers cocktails, and an outdoor atmosphere that draws the city's creative set from morning coffee through to the small hours.
A modern Australian restaurant in Gueliz from the co-founder of Nomad, where bread, pasta, cheese, and yoghurt are made in-house daily using produce from local bio-organic farms. Moss green banquettes, blush marble tables, and a minimalist room designed by the owners. The chicken schnitzel is legendary, the tuna tartare on stracciatella close behind, and the natural wine list and cocktails complete a menu that has earned a place among MENA's 50 Best Restaurants.
An all-women Moroccan restaurant on Boulevard Zerktouni, rooted in deep culinary traditions for over three decades. Al Fassia Gueliz is where locals and visitors share the same table for tagines, pastillas, and slow-cooked lamb.
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