Best Restaurants in Rabat
Five essential tables, ranked by occasion.
$$ 100–350 MAD$$$ 350–700 MAD$$$$ Over 700 MAD
Rabat’s Top 5
Villa Mandarine
Villa Mandarine is lost in vegetation — the restaurant’s defining characteristic and its most immediate argument for the visit. Wide terraces where meals are served in a garden setting of extraordinary beauty...
Golden Fish at Sofitel
Golden Fish is located within the Sofitel Rabat Jardin des Roses — one of Morocco’s most prestigious hotel properties, set in extensive gardens above the Atlantic — and focuses on Atlantic seafood with ...
Al Marsa
Al Marsa comprises two restaurants side by side on the new Marina between Salé and Rabat — one with a Spanish cuisine feel and the other more Japanese in style — managed by fish wholesalers who give pride of ...
Marea
Marea is a Moroccan-European fusion restaurant specialising in seafood with beautifully plated dishes that reflect both the Atlantic seafood tradition of the Moroccan coast and the European culinary techniques that the c...
Al Warda
Al Warda is located within the Sofitel Rabat Jardin des Roses, proposing inventive Moroccan cuisine with superb ingredients given pride of place — the most creatively ambitious expression of Moroccan cooking availa...
Dar Zitoun
Dar Zitoun occupies a beautiful riad in the Kasbah des Oudaias — the 12th-century fortification at the mouth of the Bouregreg River that provides the most dramatic historical setting in Rabat, with views over the A...
Dining in Rabat — The Essential Guide
Morocco’s Royal Capital at Table
Rabat is Morocco’s administrative and royal capital — a city of UNESCO-listed medinas, royal palaces, and an Atlantic coastline that provides some of the finest seafood in North Africa. The tourist circuit has long overlooked Rabat in favour of Marrakech’s spectacle and Fez’s historical weight, but the dining community that has been quietly building here — Villa Mandarine’s Michelin-trained garden kitchen, Golden Fish’s Atlantic French precision, and Al Marsa’s wholesaler-to-table freshness — represents a culinary case for the capital that the country’s food culture has been making for years.
The city’s position on the Atlantic, at the mouth of the Bouregreg River, provides the seafood context that defines the finest Rabat cooking. The Moroccan Atlantic coast produces fish and shellfish of exceptional quality — the turbot, the sea bass, the prawns, and the oysters that the best restaurants here source with the commitment of kitchens that understand what they are working with.
The Kasbah des Oudaias
The Kasbah des Oudaias — the 12th-century Almohad fortress at the mouth of the Bouregreg — is the most historically and visually dramatic site in Rabat. The blue-and-white houses of the Kasbah village, the Moorish garden, and the view over the Atlantic from the ramparts all provide a context for Dar Zitoun that makes the most of what is, genuinely, one of the most beautiful walled cities in the Islamic world.