Bab Ssour — Traditional Moroccan / Rif Mountain, Chefchaouen
Bab Ssour is an excellent place to eat in Chefchaouen located right in the medina, serving amazing traditional Moroccan food that makes you feel like you are eating at a Moroccan friend’s house. It is a great value and always-busy restaurant offering Moroccan dishes full of home-cooked flavour, with house specialities including regional favourites such as bisarra (fava bean soup), goat tagines, and offal preparations, as well as plenty of options for vegetarians.
The cooking takes the Rif Mountain food tradition as its primary brief: the mountain goat that has grazed the Rif’s wild herbs since the founding of the city, the bisarra that is the morning staple of the Chefchaouen market, and the slow-cooked tagines that the mountain cooking tradition has been developing in this specific landscape for centuries.
The mint tea is served with the ceremony that Moroccan hospitality demands, poured from height into the traditional glasses.
Bab Ssour is the Chefchaouen restaurant that most completely expresses what the Blue City actually eats: the home-cooked flavours, the goat and bisarra, and the warmth of a kitchen that regards every guest as a friend.
Best Occasion: Birthday
Home-cooked Moroccan food that makes you feel like you’re eating at a friend’s house, right in the medina: Bab Ssour provides a birthday dinner of genuine local warmth and culinary authenticity.
Best Occasion: First Date
Amazing traditional Moroccan food in the heart of the Blue City medina, always busy and always good: Bab Ssour is a first-date venue that communicates genuine knowledge of what Chefchaouen actually tastes like.