Marrakech offers lots of different places where you can have breakfast. Usually most hotels and riads in Marrakech offer you full breakfast included on the room price. If not, I’ll try to give you some ideias of getting morning food in Marrakech. Also, this page is useful just in case you want to skip your “included in price” breakfast and explore other options to eat in Marrakech.
Jemaa al Fna cafés and restaurants in Marrakech
All restaurants and cafés in Jemaa el Fna main square have a wide choice of breakfast menus. These menus start for normal tea or coffe, orange juice, bread and local Moroccan pastry called petit-pan (filled with chocolate). You can get bigger breakfasts with eggs depending on what you want to eat in the morning. Prices can vary from 18 dirhams up to 35 to full breakfast.
Photo of Jemaa al Fna café with breakfast in Marrakech
Bissara traditional soup in Marrakech
If you want to go local, you can try a Moroccan traditional morning soup called bissara. This soup is made of fava beans. What Are Fava Beans? Well, fava beans are one of the oldest plants under cultivation by mankind, and they were eaten in ancient Greece and Rome. Despite the name, fava beans are a member of the pea family, though they are also known as broad beans, pigeon beans, horse beans, and windsor beans.
Photo of bissara traditional soup in Marrakech Morocco
They are popular in Mediterranean cuisine. If you opt for this choice, you will definitely go local, sit with locals, sit in broken chair or on top of a fruit box. Price for bissara in Marrakech is around 4 or 5 dirhams bread included. Bissara soup is served on a small bowl, topped with raw olive oil and cumins. You can also spice with piri-piri powder. You can search for places where to eat this soup on the street with local street vendor and also tiny little cafés spread around the old medina of Marrakech.
Photo of bissara traditional soup in Marrakech Morocco
Glass of freshly squeezed orange juice in Marrakech
For those trying to go simple, like I do sometimes, well, I just go to the main square and drink 2 or 3 fresh orange juices. In Jemaa el Fna main square you have street orange juice vendors. Please tell them no sugar because sometimes they add sugar to an already sweet orange type. Orange juice costs 4 or 5 dirhams depended on the place. Drinking a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice in the morning is definitely the way to start the day. Try charriot number 51.
Photo of orange juice street vendor in Jemaa el Fna main square in Marrakech Morocco
Msemen Moroccan pancakes and milk shake in Marrakech
Again a local option is to eat msemen Moroccan type of pancakes and avocado panaché milk share made of milk, avocado and sugar. Msemen are these type of Moroccan delicious pancakes that you can ask to add cheese, honey or butter. Milk shake costs 5 to 7 dirhams and msemen costs 2 dirhams.
Photo of Msemen Moroccan pancake in Marrakech
Hotel or Riad breakfast in Marrakech
Again I state that usually all hotels in Marrakech and riads serve a full Moroccan breakfast. Usually this breakfast consists of coffee and tea, bread and msemen, fruit jam and butter, and orange juice. Of course the quality of breakfast depends on the quality of the accommodation you’re paying for. Sometimes in cheaper options for accommodation in Marrakech, you will have no breakfast included on the price.
Photo of breakfast on the terrasse of a riad in Marrakech
