Experience Marrakech: Food and Market Tour of Djemaa El Fna, Including Traditional Dinner

A tour through Marrakech’s busy market with introduction to Moroccan specialties. Great experience walking with a knowledgable guide, showing us through complex alleys only the local know. My mother does not speak English, but still had a great time with wonderful people to walk around the market. Thank you so much for the memorable experience Mohamed!

This was a perfect way to begin our trip. We tried such a variety of traditional food from olives to soups to tangina to snails and sweets! Our guide was full of great knowledge, tips and stories and did a great job integrating six Australians and Europeans with two of us and making it so much fun!

A memorable experience expertly guided through the labyrinth of streets into Aladin’s caves of bakeries and food stalls by the charismatic Omar imparting history and local knowledge with great skill and care.

We were guided by fun and gregarious Omar, whose English was faultless and whose fun demeanour kept everyone delighted all evening. This tour was one of the highlights of our trip. There's so much scare-mongering out there about being a tourist at night here, so if you're feeling a little nervous or are just a bit overwhelmed by the culture shock, this is the perfect thing to really help you feel at ease and happy walking around the city at night. It would be an absolute crime to not see this incredible city come to life after dark. My boyfriend was hoping for a bit more of a foodie tour- looking for ingredients, spices etc. round the market, but this was more of an amazing magical mystery tour of sampling such a wide range of culinary delights all round different areas of the medina. I honestly can't recommend it enough, we had a really great time, felt like we got so much bang for our buck, and got to try so many amazing foods in a great variety of settings- not just the touristy places. Our favourite bit was going to the neighbourhood communal oven and learning about how everyone brings their dough to be baked. Omar is ace, such an informative, lovely guy.

Fabulous few hours tasting and learning about the food of Morocco. Omar was a great guide and made sure that everyone was enjoying themselves. We tried pastries, savoury doughnuts, soup, snails and, of course, olives before a lovely dinner on a rooftop terrace. Go hungry is my advice, you won’t regret it. Very entertaining evening spent in the Médina

Great experience! the tour was a great way to experience the market, to stay away from tourist traps and discover nice places. Our guide was engaging and great!

Good guide, good food experience, good company - this tour has it all. Value for money as well! An excellent experience.

This was one of the most memorable food tours I've taken, and Omar was the most hilarious and engaging local guide! We made no fewer than 10 stops around the city, sampling a bunch of different goodies along the way! Here were some of the highlights: -A local bakery- we saw the deep oven used to bake round loaves of bread both for the baker and for neighborhood families. -A Moroccan donut/pancake shop in the Jewish quarter- here we got samples of Moroccan mint tea (each pot is made with two rectangular BLOCKS of sugar, freshly fried donuts, and savory, chewy pancakes stuffed with onion. -A pastry shop- most of the pastries, sweetened with honey, were made with some kind of nut, but most were made of almonds. -A Berber “pharmacy” (spice shop)- here we tried Berber tea (made with mixed herbs), as well as bread with Berber “nutella,” a dip made with ground almonds, honey, and argan oil (this was definitely a highlight for me!). We also got a thorough explanation of different spices, herbs, perfumes, and more from the person running the store. -Food stall at Jemaa el-Fnaa (the most bustling evening square I’ve ever seen)- at the first stall, we had harira soup, a tomato-based soup with chickpeas and pasta, along with a very sweet sesame pastry on the side. At another stall, we had snail soup—you used toothpicks to coax the little snails out of their shells, and the spiced broth gives them a nice warming, savory flavor. -Olive stalls- right outside the main square, there are a bunch of stalls all selling olives, a Moroccan staple—we tried green olives marinated in herbs; garlic; harissa; as well as black olives. -Chez Lamine Hadj Mustapha- by far the highlight for me of this food tour was sitting down for tangia (not tagine) at the rooftop terrace of a restaurant run by a former chef of the King of Morocco! Tangia is a stew of beef cooked in an earthenware pot with spices and preserved lemon, and the flavor and tenderness of the meat were unlike any I’ve had before! -Back to a stall at Jemaa el-Fnaa for a final tea made with a ton of spices, including ginger, cardamom, mace, and nigella seeds (along with plenty of sugar, of course). This acted as a final digestive and farewell drink, before we parted ways! What an amazing food tour.. four hours just flew by! Not only did we get to have some great food, we also got to visit local places and connected with an awesome, funny, knowledgeable tour guide! What a great experience!

From Morrocan crepes and pancakes, Morrocan spices to such dinner classics as snails, tagines and tanjias, this 3+ hour tour was both fun and informative. The food was great, the conversations even better. Our guide for the night, Omar, was the best: kind, funny, and most importantly, informative. Whether the questions were about Morrocan food, Marrakech specialties, Islamic customs or life in the medina, Omar was quick and accurate in his responses. He truly made it an evening to remember. Given the chance, I would readily do the tour again. Thanks Omar for a fun night out.

Our guide Atika was super informative about all the foods we ate and sights we saw. There is quite a bit of walking, so bring good shoes and pay attention so you don't get run over by the millions of scooters and motorbikes zipping through the alleys. (Marrakech people tend to walk very quickly too.) The group was limited to 12 people, and it was relatively easy to find the right guide at the meeting point in front of Cafe de France even though there were two other tours meeting there at the exact same time and the Jemaa El Fna square is complete chaos. We definitely ate our fill on the tour, from donuts in the Jewish quarter to what I call "Moroccan minestrone" (harira soup) in the square to snacks from the souk to slow cooked beef and lamb at the finish. There was more food than we could finish, and it was nice to take home the bag of mixed nuts from one of the stalls in the souk. One thing to note: we did not get to try the snail soup as other reviews mentioned. A little disappointed, but understandable that tour stops may change based on what the guests like/dislike over time. Overall a very good tour, well worth the money!