Location: Merzouga
Top Restaurants in Merzouga
Top Things to do in Merzouga
Merzouga Food Guide: 10 Must-Eat Restaurants & Street Food Stalls in Merzouga
Bask in glorious sunsets and channel your inner sheik while you ride a meandering camel across the windblown dunes of Erg Chebbi. Merzouga, a small village in southeast Morocco, gives visitors a taste of desert life, and treks to nearby villages will reward you with African revelry, including music and dance. Ask your hotel to arrange a guided tour.
Things to do in Merzouga
1. Ksar Merzouga
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 41 reviews
Auberge Ksar Merzouga Invite you to visite the sahara desert resturant and descover lot of magic place ,camel trekking, Sandboarding....pool ...rooms
Reviewed By Iman B
After falling in love with Hotel Ksar Merzouga and the people we couldn't wait to go again. If you're in need of a relaxing fun filled exciting holiday this is is the place to be. Its tranquility and serenity are magical. The service and cleanliness in this place are wonderful. In 2013 we (parents, sister, uncle and his family) stayed for 3 nights and 2015 for 4 nights with even more friends and family that were extremely sad to leave. Most recommended place in the Sahara!
2. Restaurant Cafe Fatima
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 202 reviews
Our Restaurant exist in the heart of the village of Hassi Labied, has an aloung which might take up to 32 people, infront desk with live music, free wifi, internet, AC, Western toilet available, heater, Swimming pool, Terrace and a Nomadic Berber tent with a view of the Stunning dunes of Erg Chebbi. Both Terrace and around the Swimming might take up to another 40 people.
Reviewed By watchsmart - Asuncion, Paraguay
Not only is the Fatima a nice place to enjoy a meal, but it is basically an "everything store" for the Merzouga area. They've got meals, they've got rooms, they've got bikes for rent (cheap!), they sell souvenirs, they'll put you on a camel... whatever you need!
But, yes, the meals are nice. They've even got a vegetarian option.
3. Restaurant Cafe NORA
Overall Ratings
5 based on 319 reviews
RESTAURANT CAFE NORA EST SE TROUVE AU VILLAGE KHAMLIA 7KM DE MERZOUGA,A COTE DE L'ASSOCIATION DES MUSICIENS GNAOUA.MANGER PAS CHER CHEZ HASSAN.
Reviewed By Samiya7 - Hollywood, Florida
This restaurant was recommended by our driver as one of the two available restaurants in town. You have to call and place your order one hour ahead of time. There are no menus and no prices listed anywhere. So everything is a surprise! Apparently you can order chicken or beef stuffed pizza. We were served a first course of very bland tasteless soggy rice with a line of soggy vegetables. We tasted it but did not really like it and if had a choice we would not have ordered it - we assumed we were charged for it. We had ordered one small pizza (which was enough for the 2 of us), but the waiter brought out 2 so we made him take one back. We are not sure if we were charged for that pizza. We ended up with a chicken pizza which is like the round flat bread they give you everywhere but it is stuffed with chicken and other things. We liked it. Lastly they brought out a plate of sliced oranges and dates. Our waiter also brought water which we didn't drink as we ordered cokes. Again we are not sure of we were charged for the water. Our bill was 170 dirhams. If you are the restaurant and you are Reading these, we tourists would appreciate transparency. Let us order what we want a la carte and provide a menu with prices. Thank you.
4. Chez l'habitant
Overall Ratings
5 based on 16 reviews
Welcome to Chez les habitants! I am Ahmed Amraoui Welcome to our family home. We are a family Berber , born and lived in the South-eastern desert of Morocco. It is our pleasure to have you as our guests and show you the life of the region of Merzouga and the Erg Chebbi dunes, which start from the Sahara Desert. Staying with us, it is the experience of the true life of the people here. The guest house is located at 4 km along the center of Merzouga, in a small village called Tiharien. Our accommodation is comfortable without losing the feeling of being in the house of a family. We offer 6 rooms for 11 people, a Terrace Equipped with a small garden, two showers two bathrooms, the Berber tent to relax! Free: C onnection Wi -Fi access and free private parking for your car. You can get a tattoo typical henna. We speak Berber, Arabic, English, Spanish, French, A Portuguese and Italian. To find out more, you can combine nights in the guest house with excursions in the dunes of Erg Chebbi. We have many things to offer, such as: * Travel * camel and walk in the desert of Merzouga 4x4 * Yoga meditation . We can not wait to meet you!
Reviewed By Joh4
We spent one night at the place from Ahmed and his family and had a really great time. Here you find a quiet lovely hotel located in a small original Berber-village. If you are looking for a real maroc-experience I can highly recommend to stay here. The food preparred by Ahmeds mother was excellent as well and you eat together with the family. We really felt like guests! We booked a one night dessert trip as well, which was my favorite part of my trip troughout Marocco! Thanks Ahmed for the great time!
5. Dar Restaurant Bab Rimal
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 27 reviews
Perfectly located at the entrance to the desert town of Merzouga, Dar Restaurant Bab Rimal truly is the gateway to the Sahara. Owners Abdou and Fatima cook up genuine Moroccan cuisine, including tremendous tagines, cous-cous, michwi, and Pizza Sahara.
Reviewed By ATWeck - Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The workers at this restaurant were incredibly friendly and made our meal a relaxing and enjoyable experience. The food was fresh and hot and the salad alone was worth the visit, especially at the price.
6. Nasser Palace Restaurant
Overall Ratings
5 based on 62 reviews
Reviewed By Rodrigo G - Arlington, Virginia
This is not for the faint-hearted chap, the frail adventurer, or the flimsy swashbuckler. The Nasser Palace will indelibly and ineradicably impregnate on-and-in you the spirit of the Foreign Legion, the vastness of the never-ending sands of the Sahara desert with its whispering howling winds, and the fogey mettle of the Touareg people. Moreover, the dark and fat desert scarabs will bloodcurdlingly remind you of the 1999 film: "The Mummy". (I guess I am supposed to say here: Nhyyaaaahahahaaa!?).
Well, the Nasser Palace's restaurant is something much, much different. After a long day cruising the sands of Erg Chebbi on an even-toed ungulate dromedary's back (the ones with one hump are not "Camels", so you know...), you are certainly thirsty, hungry, and of course, silted; so the only thing you want is a cold shower and an heartwarming dinner. The Nasser Palace stands as a bastion seemingly constructed by the "Legionnaires du Beau Geste" (1924 novel) with a restaurant that emulates the history, ambiance, settings, decorations, and spirit of the place, crowned by delectable "gourmandises" for the selective, nomad palate.
I gobbled delicious chicken and lamb kebobs, I devoured delectable and aromatic olives, I guzzled Moroccan bread and briouats slathered in exotic sauces that made me sigh, and I engorged sardines and real anchovies with leems (pickled lemons). The service was inviting and affable, and the music performed in the background by the Rwais (Cheuh Berber musicians) it was superb! The desert desserts are a must: stuffed dates, chocolate marzipan, apricots, figs, and petite fekkas with nigella seeds (those last ones are cookies, silly you!). Dromedary milk is always an option, but I passed on it... The Nasser Palace itself it is something you ought to do before you breathe your last. The prices, the variety, the quality, and the service are notable and stately for a remarkably remote post like this one. I shall return!
7. L'homme Du Desert Restaurante
8. Cafe Restaurant Tenere
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 87 reviews
Reviewed By Manuel T - Marrakech, Morocco
Great place in centre of merzouga,and the super-nice staff had exactly what we wanted. We both had chicken brochettes and Moroccan salad. Simple, but very good. Fantastic Moroccan food. Thanks Hassan
9. Restaurant Cafe Azul
Overall Ratings
5 based on 28 reviews
Reviewed By DPiatek
I loved this place! A clean, new, delightful restaurant on the edge of the dunes in this quaint little desert village. HAS WIFI! Don't remember what I had, I ate there twice, food was plentiful, delicious, beautiful and inexpensive. Service was attentive. The decor is very sweet. Place to sit outside and watch the quiet village life as it passes.
10. Cafe' des Artistes
Overall Ratings
5 based on 6 reviews
Reviewed By evagatta - Ibiza
Are you by now tired of Tajine and Cous-cous?
Sit and smile with French Johanna in front of a mint tea, ask her what she would cook for you the next day and she will surprise you with one french delicacy after the other!
I had a delicious entree of aubergine pate' on toasts, chicken casserole, fennel gratin and a killer apple crumb......yammy! But you need to order the food the day before so that she can especially prepare it for you. Everything is slow in Africa!
After the feast, have a tour in their art gallery, Johanna and husband Lahcen are talented artists inspired by the desert and they have all kind of paints, desert landscapes and touareg portraits in different sizes, for you to bring home. I picked 2 small & cute ones with camels and a tea pot, they fit so nice in my kitchen!
The whole cafe' is also decorated with fantasy and sweet details, tour around to discover them.
And in the evenings, there's always time for a Gnaoua jam inside the cafe, sipping a tea, its the spiritual music from Marocco, all over the village of Khamlia there are Gnaoua bands playing for visitors in their houses.
A delighful experience in a real Gnaoua african village, just around the corner from Algeria. it is located at 7km from Merzouga village, direction Taouz.
