Top Essaouira Food & Drink

Prepare a traditional menu of Moroccan dishes at a small-group cooking class in Essaouira, where you’ll be welcomed by a local couple in their family home. The evening begins with browsing fresh ingredients and aromatic spices at the food market; next, enjoy the chance to talk and tell stories as you cook a special dinner in Khadija and Hussein’s home kitchen.

Ride a horse across Essaouira’s beaches, dunes, and forest on this tour. Select a horse that’s suited to your riding experience — beginners start with a basic riding lesson — then walk, canter, or gallop across the smooth sand; clamber up steep seaside dunes to sweeping views, and wind through the shade of Essaouira’s arid forests.

This experience offers you the opportunity to do quad on the beach with a small stop to visit the Portuguese Borj, and take some pictures to immortalize the wonderful moment you live. Pass through the pine forest in the middle of cows, goats, dromedaries ... and finally in the dunes.

Moroccan cuisine is known for its delicious tagines, fragrant cous cous, and unique spice blends. This cooking workshop offers a hands-on culinary experience, as you shop for ingredients at the spice souks, learn to make traditional Moroccan dishes, then sit down to enjoy a 2-course homemade lunch, followed by Moroccan mint tea and pastries.

Enjoy a day trip to the port city of Essaouira, discover the beautiful port city of Essaouira and the warm hospitality of its inhabitants, stroll through the old medina and its ramparts, Admire the beach, the port, the souks, the medina and the craft galleries, Explore the old Jewish Quarter, Visit the Skala and its cannons.

Experience Essaouira’s Old medina during a 3-4 Hours walk & talk, Combining a "live like a local" , "Street food" and "Historical food" tours all in one. The city's known for it's famous & rich history and vibrant culture. We'll share as much informations as we can during this walk through the city and get you introduced to the locals lifestyle. - Sample traditional sweets at the city’s pastry shops - Walk alongside the fortifications with a local guide - Follow the rolling & narrow paths to make you feel like you're in the mid 17th century - Dine alongside locals as you enjoy freshly-caught fish from the Essaouira Bay - Savor a sweet dessert - Learn local remedies in a herbalist’s shop over a traditional glass of Moroccan tea.

During this magical experience of about 3/4 hours you will have the opportunity to share and attend a show cooking and learn the famous recipe of traditional Moroccan couscous. You will also have the opportunity to share a moment of total cultural and culinary sharing together with a Moroccan family, the Fatima family. Once the guests are picked up from the holiday riad / hotel, we will go to the Mèdina di essaouira food market where together with Fatima we will buy together the necessary ingredients for the preparation of the Cous Cous. Once we arrive at the event location, we will enjoy a welcome mint tea before starting the show cooking directly in the Fatima kitchen. After the artisan preparation of about 1 hour and 30 minutes we will enjoy the dish at the table in a real Moroccan living room, where chatter and laughter will be the basis of this beautiful lunch together. To conclude, fruit and mint tea.

Hello, my name is Abdou. I am a Moroccan person food lover grew up between the old medina and the wonderful beach of ESSAOUIRA. I have learned the basic of the cooking from my mother when i was child, And thats give the opportunity to work as a shef in many restaurants in many cities in Morocco I would love to share with you everything about my culture, especially food and drink if you are interested in learning how to make a tradutional moroccan tajine or any kind of moroccan food or if you are looking for the secrets of the moroccan food and culture, this experience is the right for you  IT WILL BE A HONOR FOR ME TO SHARE ALL OF MY KNOWLEDGE WITH YOU SEE YOU SOOOON!

The cooking class is offered in the beautiful Haha-region 35 km south of Essaouira. This is the land of the Berbers, Morocco’s indigenous population. The Berbers of the Haha hills cultivate crops and keep animals, mainly goats and sheep. We visit a local souk featuring freshly harvested fruit and vegetables, in addition to meat, eggs, honey – in short, all the staples for daily living, including the essential ingredients for our Berber cooking class. The class takes place at an ecological farm, centred around an authentic Berber kitchen stocked with traditional items for food preparation. Khadija and Khadija, two lovely local women, show you how they roast barley grains on the fire, and then grind them in a stone mill to produce the flour and semolina used as the basis for traditional flat bread and couscous. We bake flat bread in a clay oven and steam couscous in a traditional clay pot. We learn to make a traditional tagine of vegetables and goat meat with Moroccan spices and olive oil – oil derived from the olive trees growing on the farm. Depending on the weather, lunch is served outside if at all possible. Eating in beautiful, calm and natural surroundings is a special event. Following the meal, we enjoy tea infused with fresh herbs from the garden. As we will be driving through the Argan zone, you have the option to visit an Argan oil cooperative and learn about the production of this beautiful oil - in all the world, a product unique to this area. They will offer us a taste of the lovely things they make with it, too. Very likely you will see the famous goats in the trees on this tour to the south of Essaouira.

We meet about 1.5h before sunset. This one-hour ramble through the dunes and along the riverbed of Oued Ksob will allow you to encounter the richness of the natural environment around Essaouira. You will discover a former Sultan‛s palace, which over time has surrendered to the sand and now sits in state in the midst of a wild nature. This huge sanded palace, dating back to the foundation of Essaouira in the 18th century invites you to dream of times gone by. We will give you some historical background about this site and afterwards in Diabat we will let our imaginations fly whilst sipping tea and watching the sunset over the Mogador islands…

Surf Coaching is our most comprehensive surf program, it’s perfect for people who are looking to improve their surfing, or beginners to learn the right way. During the daily surf safaris we will provide you all the surf kit, surf lessons and theory; you’ll have all the tips to improve your surfing level savely and better understand the surfing environment. All in a relaxed, supportive and happy atmosphere, we assure you to spend an unforgettable stay. *** You will stay in our surf house, located a few meters from the ocean, this pretty guest house is composed of 12 rooms with private bathroom decorated with a nice Moroccan touch. With a spacious roof terrace overlooking the ocean, you can relax around a tasty Moroccan mint tea or practice there daily yoga lessons. In a warm and family atmosphere you will taste the delights of our Chef Fatima.