Newly Opened: 6 Addresses to Try

Marrakech has seen a run of new restaurant and bar openings over recent months. Six of them, all opened between March and May 2026, each bring something the city's dining scene did not have before: a Japanese omakase counter in the industrial design quarter of Sidi Ghanem; a North American-leaning pizza format from the team behind Le Mouton Noir; a Spanish arroceria operating delivery-only from the Ourika road; a Cuban-referenced rooftop in the Medina; a wine and cocktail room in Gueliz; a Moroccan-Lebanese address on M Avenue in Hivernage. The hospitality conversation in Marrakech, long anchored by its riad palaces and Medina rooftops, is now being shaped also by smaller, chef-driven openings that bring specific cuisines, specific techniques, and specific service formats into the city.

1. Gonzalez y Gonzalez on Route de l'Ourika

Guillaume and Frederic Vallade have been in Marrakech for nineteen years; on the tenth of March they opened Gonzalez y Gonzalez, an arroceria six kilometres south of the city on the Ourika road in Douar Tougana, built around Spanish village-style paella cooked over wood fire and delivered across the city. There is no dining room programme, no events, no music. The kitchen was shaped by a Spanish chef, and the entire paella canon was designed in-house with him. Orders run from nine in the morning until half past seven; deliveries from half past eleven to ten in the evening. A second project is announced for the new season: a small private table inside the arroceria operating as a seafood restaurant, planned for September or October.

Gonzalez y Gonzalez.
km6 Route de l'Ourika, Douar Tougana, Tassoultantes, Marrakech.
Instagram @gonzalezygonzalez_marrakech.

2. Napa Chapter One in Gueliz

The name reads as a signature: NA for Nahas, PA for Pastor, Chapter One for Simone. Napa Chapter One is the wine and cocktail room that the Farmers team, Aziz Nahas and Benjamin Pastor, opened on the thirty-first of March on Boulevard Mohamed Zerktouni in Gueliz, next door to the restaurant, with sommelier and mixologist Simone Merette as creative director and beverage lead. The wine programme has the spirit of a buvette: bottles drawn from sustainable, organic, biodynamic and natural producers across the world, poured simply. The cocktail programme reinterprets late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century forms around Moroccan ingredients (spices, botanicals, citrus, aromatics), with what is not used fresh continuing through fermentation, infusion and preservation; the supply line runs back to Sanctuary Slimane, the team's permaculture farm outside the city. The room is Art Deco, restored around a curved bar and a hand-tailored wine cellar, with an apothecary wall of spirits and infusion herbs behind the two cocktail stations, which is where the agricultural side of the bar becomes visible. Open Tuesday to Saturday, five in the afternoon until one in the morning, with a resident DJ on Thursdays moving across funk, hip hop and soul.

Napa Chapter One.
Residence Jean Paul Robert, Rue Mohamed El Bakkal Mag N8, Bd Mohamed Zerktouni, Gueliz.
Instagram @napa_chapter1.

3. Pizzaclub in Semlalia

Pizzaclub is the first pizza project from Aniss Meski, who founded Le Mouton Noir and is the chef at Farasha Farmhouse, opened in late April in Semlalia, behind Sup DeCo, with his wife and sister. The register sits between gourmet pizza and a North American idea of the pizza as a composed dish, where the dough is the base for a plate rather than a vehicle for the same handful of toppings. The dough itself is the tell: a seventy-two-hour fermentation at seventy percent hydration, worked to stay light. Their best-seller so far is the Mexican, a pizza built like a taco: pulled chicken braised in cumin, chilli pepper, oregano and garlic, finished with aji verde and a fistful of coriander. The kitchen is held day-to-day by a cook brought over from Mouton Noir for his pizzaiolo background. Panuozzo and hot dogs on pizza dough are next. Open Tuesday to Sunday from noon to eleven; delivery across Marrakech.

Pizzaclub.
Semlalia, behind Sup DeCo, Marrakech.
Instagram @pizzaclub.marrakech.

4. SAMA in the Medina

The house under SAMA dates back more than a century: originally the Ouarzazi family residence, run since 1994 by the Rmili family as the restaurant Diaffa. SAMA is the rooftop that opened above it in May, and the first project developed independently by Asma Rmili, who led its architecture and creative direction. The name carries a double meaning: "the sky" in Arabic, and Asma's own nickname. The reference is Havana and Miami Beach, a rooftop conceived to engage all five senses and to read as somewhere other than Marrakech. The terrace looks directly at the Koutoubia minaret, and the contrast between the oldest landmark on the skyline and a programme that sounds like it belongs elsewhere is the address's defining note. The kitchen, developed with Chef Chaar, runs on small plates and sharing dishes drawing on Mediterranean and South American influences while staying anchored in Moroccan ingredients: dates, almonds, orange blossom, rose, ras el hanout. The music, curated by Mendy, co-founder of Le Matin Records, shifts as the evening goes: jazz, funk and bossa nova through dinner, house and disco later into the night.

SAMA. Rooftop of Restaurant Diaffa,
Rue Jbel Lakhdar, Medina, Marrakech.
Instagram @sama.marrakech.rooftop.

5. Iki - Authentic Japanese in Sidi Ghanem

Sidi Ghanem, the industrial quarter that has spent the last decade turning into Marrakech's design, gallery and atelier district, is an unusual address for a sushi counter, and the choice reads as deliberate. Iki - Authentic Japanese opened there on the twenty-first of March, at 308 Rue Sidi Ghanem. Chef Shoki Yokoyama, who has traveled through more than thirty countries before settling in Marrakech, works from an omakase counter built around the principle of Omotenashi: the meal arrives as a quiet, deliberate sequence rather than a parade of plates, and the counter is where you watch it take shape. Two formats run in parallel: the Omakase, the Chef's Selection the room describes as a true expression of the authentic soul of Japanese sushi, and an a la carte of seasonal Japanese favourites. The interiors are Japanese-inspired, the room arranged around the counter and the work of the chef. Yokoyama frames the project as a bridge between Japan and Morocco. Reservations move through eat-now.io.

Iki - Authentic Japanese
308 Rue Sidi Ghanem, Marrakech.
Instagram @sushiikimarrakech.

6. Zama Zama in Hivernage

Zama Zama is built around a single idea: a room that holds the whole evening, from dinner through to the part of the night that usually sends you somewhere else. It opened in April on M Avenue in Hivernage. The kitchen runs on shareable plates rooted in the Moroccan and Levantine traditions, reinvented through what the team frames as a modern creative register. As the evening goes, the handover is visible: the kitchen carries the early hours, then the bar and the music take over. The cocktail programme is built with Barometre Marrakech as a homage to Arab culture; the musical direction runs on a residency by Sound Sisters Morocco, the female collective of the Moroccan electronic scene, on a line-up of Arabic deep house and regional classics revisited, with a rotating Next Artist Showcase. The room is fully privatisable, with capacity for 110 covers indoors and 55 on the terrace, and sits within walking distance of M Avenue's most established dinner addresses.

Zama Zama.
M Avenue, Hivernage, Marrakech.
Instagram @zamazama_marrakech.