Where to Eat in Taghazout and Tamraght: My 8 Favourite Spots
I did not come to Morocco's surf coast for the food.
I came for the beach and the pace, and I assumed we would eat a lot of tagine and a lot of bread and that would be that. Instead we spent sixteen nights here and ate better than we did in Marrakech, in a stretch of coast where the best meal we had was cooked by our Airbnb host on her own rooftop.
So here are the eight places we actually went back to, what each one cost, and the one we visited three days running.
Where to Eat in Taghazout and Tamraght? My Quick Answer
Ohana Poke for lunch, Hey Yallah for coffee, and Soz Cookies before it shuts. If you only do three things with your appetite here, do those.
The thing that surprised me most is how international the food is. This is a surf town, so alongside the tagines there is poke, there is proper coffee, there is Lebanese, and there are cafes that would not be out of place in Sydney.
1. Ohana Poke and Vitamin Bar, Tamraght
Our favourite, and the one we went to three days in a row!
Poke bowls, burgers, fresh juices and coffee. The chicken poke bowl is a 10 out of 10 and the chips are genuinely excellent, which I did not expect to be writing about a poke place. A bowl with extra protein was 80 dirham, which is A$13.30.
The owner is Osama and he is lovely. He came over on our last night when we told him we were leaving, and asked us to tell people to come.
What to order: the chicken poke bowl, and the chips even if you think you do not want chips.
2. Hey Yallah, Tamraght
Not just a cafe. This is genuinely one of the reasons we ended up staying longer!
It is a cafe downstairs and a studio upstairs, and the studio runs yoga, mat Pilates and workshops. A Pilates class was around 130 dirham, roughly 12 euro. We did an incense workshop there. There was a vintage pop-up out the front one weekend and a second-hand and art market another.
What to order: the mango matcha spritz, made over sparkling water rather than milk, which is the thing I still think about. The honey lavender matcha is the other one. And the banana bread, which is a 10 out of 10 and which I ate most days.
A matcha is 45 dirham, A$7.50. Dan is the coffee person of the two of us and rates the coffee here 10 out of 10, which he does not hand out lightly.
3. Soz Cookies, Taghazout
Tucked in the back lanes above the beach, and it closes earlier than you expect. We very nearly missed it entirely and only got there because we half-jogged the last stretch.
The cookies are the size of your hand! The banana bread one is the one to get. They are 30 dirham each, which is A$5, and I had three in a single day, which I feel is an entirely reasonable response to being on holiday!
Go at sunset. The spot it sits in, right above the water, is honestly half the reason to bother!
4. The Street Food Place 200 Metres From Our Airbnb
No sign worth photographing, no website, and one of my favourite meals of the entire trip.
Traditional Moroccan pastries filled with sweet beef, sweet chicken, or spinach and cheese, plus fried eggplant and a chicken pastilla, with homemade lemonade. All of it cooked in front of you.
Chicken wraps here were 42 dirham, A$6.97. That is the whole meal!
If you are staying in Tamraght, walk up your own street before you look anything up. This kind of place is everywhere and it is consistently the best value food on the coast.
5. The Lebanese Place, Tamraght
We went here with Olivia, a friend we made in a shared taxi on our second day, and the power went out on the entire street about ten minutes after we sat down.
The owner did not blink. He had a gas stove, so he carried on cooking in the dark while everyone got their phone torches out, and it turned into one of the best evenings we had on this coast. The beef and the falafel were excellent.
I am including it partly for the food and partly because that is the kind of place this is.
6. Our Airbnb Host's Rooftop
You cannot book this one, and it was still the best meal we ate in Morocco!
Halfway through our eleven nights our host cooked for us on her own rooftop. A beef tagine with peas, herbs and prunes, homemade bread, Moroccan tea, and she sent us away with little surfboard fridge magnets.
It beat every restaurant we tried in the country, and the second best tagine we ate was in a riad in Marrakech that charges A$184 a night.
The point for you: if you stay somewhere family run on this coast, say yes to anything you are offered. The home cooking here is better than the restaurants and it is not close!
7. The Buffet at the Hilton, Taghazout Bay
Worth including because it is a completely different kind of evening and we genuinely enjoyed it.
We stayed at the Hilton Taghazout Bay for our first two nights on the coast and did not leave the property once. The buffet breakfast and dinner were both excellent, and there is a patisserie on site.
Dinner for two came to 495 dirham, which is A$82, so it is the most expensive meal on this list by a distance. It is a resort buffet rather than a local restaurant, and if that is the night you want, it is a good one.
Hilton Taghazout Bay Beach Resort & Spa
Four pools including a heated one, a buffet breakfast and dinner that were both excellent, its own patisserie, a gym and a short walk down to the beach. We got upgraded to a deluxe ocean view room and did not leave for two days.
8. Breakfast at Blue Surf House, Tamraght
If you are staying here, do not skip breakfast, and if you are not, this is a reason to consider it.
It is served on the rooftop: eggs, a spread of different pastes and jams, Moroccan mint tea and pitta you open up and fill yourself. There is a peanut and almond butter with dark chocolate that I would happily have shipped home!
Top tip that sounds wrong and is not: honey on eggs, in the bread. Do not judge it until you have had it!
Blue Surf House, Tamraght
A$94.75 a night, about A$47 each, listed on Booking as Tamraght Bleu House. Private rooms and dorms, ten minutes from the beach, a shared kitchen and surfboard hire on site. The rooftop breakfast is the best thing about it.
What Eating Here Actually Costs
Every one of these is from our own receipts, in Tamraght and Taghazout, in late November and early December 2025.
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| What | Dirham | AUD |
|---|---|---|
| Coffee | 19 to 45 | 3.13 to 7.50 |
| Matcha at Hey Yallah | 45 | 7.50 |
| Kombucha | 45 | 7.50 |
| Cookie at Soz | 30 | 5.00 |
| Chicken wraps, street food | 42 | 6.97 |
| Poke bowl with extra protein | 80 | 13.30 |
| Dinner, main plus drink plus shared starter | 105 | 17.50 |
| A local dinner out | 125 | 20.82 |
| Lunch out | 132 | 22.04 |
| Breakfast out | 140 | 23.16 |
| Buffet dinner for two at the Hilton | 495 | 82.00 |
| A week of groceries | 215 | 35.78 |
A normal day of eating here, two meals out plus coffee, came to about A$45. The full trip breakdown is in what 24 days in Morocco cost us.
Practical Things Worth Knowing
- Take cash. Across our whole Morocco trip cash was 48.5% of everything we spent, and the smaller places here are card-free.
- French helps enormously. Nearly everyone we met on this coast speaks it. Our friend Margo is French and ordering became far easier the moment she arrived.
- Cook some nights. Fifteen of our sixteen nights had a kitchen and the local shops are cheap and good. A week of basics was 215 dirham, A$35.78.
- Nothing here needs booking. We never reserved a table once in sixteen nights.
- Things close earlier than you expect, Soz Cookies especially.
Watch Us Eat Our Way Through This Coast
Most of the places above are in the vlog, along with the cafes, the street food and the night our Airbnb host cooked for us.
Watch the Taghazout and Tamraght vlog on YouTube and subscribe to Ell's Passport for the rest of Morocco.
FAQs About Eating in Taghazout and Tamraght
Where is the best place to eat in Taghazout?
Our favourite on the whole coast was Ohana Poke and Vitamin Bar in Tamraght, ten minutes from Taghazout, and we went three days in a row. In Taghazout itself, Soz Cookies above the beach is worth planning your afternoon around, and it closes earlier than you would expect.
Is food expensive in Taghazout?
No. A poke bowl with extra protein was 80 dirham, A$13.30. Dinner with a drink and a shared starter was 105 dirham, A$17.50. Coffee runs A$3 to A$7.50. A full day of eating out came to around A$45 each.
Do restaurants in Taghazout take card?
Many do not, and where a machine exists it often does not work. Take cash. Across our whole Morocco trip cash was 48.5% of everything we spent, and the small street food places here are cash only.
Is there more than Moroccan food in Taghazout?
Far more than I expected. It is a surf town, so alongside the tagines you get poke bowls, burgers, proper speciality coffee, matcha, Lebanese food and modern cafes. The mix is one of the nicest things about eating here.
Do you need to book restaurants in Taghazout or Tamraght?
We never booked a table once in sixteen nights. It is a relaxed coast and walking in is normal, even in the evenings.
What is the best breakfast in Tamraght?
The rooftop breakfast at Blue Surf House if you are staying there: eggs, spreads, Moroccan mint tea and pitta. Otherwise Hey Yallah for coffee, matcha and banana bread, which is where we ended up most mornings.
Should you eat at your accommodation in Morocco?
On this coast, yes. The single best meal we ate in the entire country was cooked by our Airbnb host on her rooftop, a beef tagine with peas, herbs and prunes with homemade bread. If a family run place offers to cook, say yes.
How much should I budget for food per day in Taghazout?
About A$45 per person for two meals out plus coffee, or considerably less if you cook. Our full tracked day in Tamraght, including sunbeds and a taxi, came to A$61.30.
Final Thoughts: Is the Food Good in Taghazout and Tamraght?
Better than I expected and better than Marrakech, which I did not see coming at all!
The reason is that this coast has two food scenes running at once. There is the Moroccan one, which is cheap and generous and best of all in someone's home. And there is the surf town one, which brought good coffee, poke bowls and cafes with yoga studios above them.
Eat at both. Go to Ohana more times than is reasonable. Get to Soz Cookies before it shuts. And if anyone offers to cook for you, cancel whatever you had planned!
