El Morocco Club — Mediterranean / French-Moroccan Fusion, Tangier
El Morocco Club is often described as the finest fine dining restaurant not located in a hotel in Tangier — a description that locates it precisely in the dining landscape of a city where the luxury hotel restaurants have long dominated the upper end of the market. Located close to the Kasbah Museum, El Morocco Club offers refined Mediterranean cuisine that invites diners to a culinary experience uniting East and West, fusing French and Moroccan flavors into something that is specifically and excitingly Tangerine.
The cooking at El Morocco Club takes the meeting point of two civilisations as its brief: the French culinary tradition that Morocco’s colonial period brought to the educated class alongside the Moroccan culinary heritage that the country’s own traditions have been developing for a millennium, synthesised in a kitchen that understands that the Strait of Gibraltar is not a border but a meeting point.
The wine programme takes Moroccan wine seriously alongside the French selections that the European dimension of the cooking occasionally requires: the Meknes Syrahs and Benslimane Gris rosés alongside the Burgundy and Bordeaux that the French fusion demands.
El Morocco Club is the restaurant that demonstrates what Tangier’s cosmopolitan identity — the city that was once an international zone, governed by nine nations simultaneously — means when it is expressed through food.
Best Occasion: Proposal
The most sophisticated non-hotel dining room in Tangier, near the Kasbah Museum, with Mediterranean cuisine that unites East and West: El Morocco Club provides a proposal setting that uses Tangier’s specific cultural complexity as its backdrop.
Best Occasion: Impress Clients
The finest non-hotel fine dining in Tangier, with French-Moroccan fusion that genuinely unites the two traditions: El Morocco Club communicates a depth of engagement with the city’s specific culinary culture that the hotel restaurants cannot approach.