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Palais Gharnata

Palatial dining in a 17th-century mansion (d; $$$)

Palais Gharnata

Palais Gharnata is an old palatial mansion done out in gharnata style (that is, in the style of the Andalusian emirate of Granada).

The food here is decent enough, with a 550dh set menu (including wine), featuring the Moroccan classics. There's pastilla, fine tajines, couscous, salads, good desserts and Moroccan wine, and there's a floorshow featuring classical Andalusian music, and completely un-classical belly dancing, which is good, but Middle Eastern, not Moroccan.

Palais Gharnata

However, it isn't the food or the floorshow that you come here for, but the surroundings, which are absolutely jaw-droppingly beautiful. The building is a seventeenth-century mansion, well maintained and restored, and the whole place is dripping with the most unbelievably intricate stucco work, plus zellij tilework and carved cedarwood. It's a popular venue for wedding parties.

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Southern Medina upmarket & palace restaurants

Palace restaurants

Text © Daniel Jacobs

Images by Dan Lundberg