The Loft — Contemporary French / Moroccan, Essaouira
The Loft offers refined and memorable dishes that rank among the best in Morocco. It is the only restaurant in Essaouira where you can enjoy wine with your meal — a distinction that reflects both the restaurant’s positioning and the specific context of a predominantly conservative Moroccan coastal town. While prices are higher by Moroccan standards, the level of gastronomy would not look out of place in the Gault & Millau guide.
The menu features starters like spring rolls with goat cheese and crab tartare — preparations that demonstrate the kitchen’s genuine creative intelligence — alongside mains such as grilled John Dory and monkfish in white sauce that reflect both the quality of the Essaouira catch and the French culinary tradition that the cooking applies to it.
The wine list is the most serious in Essaouira: Moroccan producers presented with the knowledge that the restaurant’s wine-focused identity demands, alongside the French selections that the Gault & Millau-level cooking requires.
The Loft is the restaurant for Essaouira visits that want the refinement of a serious French-Moroccan kitchen with the wine pairing that the cooking deserves.
Best Occasion: Close a Deal
Gault & Millau-level cooking, wine pairing in a town where wine is hard to find, and the finest contemporary French-Moroccan cuisine in Essaouira: The Loft provides business dining of genuine distinction.
Best Occasion: Birthday
The only restaurant in Essaouira with wine, Gault & Millau-level dishes, and John Dory and monkfish of exceptional quality: The Loft provides a birthday dinner that combines the finest Atlantic seafood with the wine programme the occasion deserves.