Restaurant Port de Pêche — Seafood / Moroccan, Casablanca
Restaurant Port de Pêche sits directly at Casablanca’s harbour — a popular spot for both locals and tourists seeking the freshest Atlantic seafood. The restaurant’s proximity to the landing point for the city’s fishing fleet means that the interval between ocean and table is as short as any seafood restaurant in Africa can achieve.
The menu covers the full Atlantic seafood range with the directness of a kitchen that regards preparation as secondary to freshness: shrimp prepared in the half-dozen ways that the Moroccan coastal tradition has developed, calamari fried to the perfection that is the Moroccan fisherman’s standard, oysters from the Atlantic beds off the Moroccan coast, fresh fish platters of whatever the morning’s boats have provided, and a seafood paella that draws on the Spanish culinary tradition that has influenced Moroccan coastal cooking.
The wine programme is practical and well-chosen: the Moroccan whites and rosés that seafood of this quality demands, alongside the house selections that make the most of the reasonable prices.
Port de Pêche is the restaurant that Casablanca’s own residents choose for the freshest seafood: the Monday morning catch on a Tuesday plate, the shrimp that arrived from the Atlantic before the restaurant opened. For visitors from inland cities, the immediacy of the connection between ocean and plate at this harbour restaurant is a revelation.
Best Occasion: Team Dinner
Fresh Atlantic seafood at the harbour where it was landed, at prices that allow a group to eat generously without restraint: Port de Pêche is the team dinner address for Casablanca occasions that want genuine quality at accessible pricing.
Best Occasion: Solo Dining
A harbour table, the freshest Atlantic seafood, and the view of the boats that provided it: Port de Pêche is one of the most naturally pleasurable solo dining addresses in Casablanca.