Brunch in Fez: The Honest Guide
Brunch isn't really a Fez thing. The city does breakfast — msemen, baghrir, olives, eggs — brilliantly, but the Western-style late-morning brunch is a thin category here. This is the honest guide: where breakfast is great, where brunch-ish exists, and what to order.
No invented brunch spots. Here's what's real.
The Moroccan breakfast: do this instead
Forget brunch. Fez invented a better morning meal.
Photo: Popo le Chien, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The traditional Moroccan breakfast — f'tour — is one of the great breakfasts of the world, and Fez does it properly: msemen (flaky square flatbreads), baghrir (thousand-hole pancakes) with honey and butter, olives, soft cheese, eggs cooked to order, and mint tea by the pot.
Your riad will almost certainly serve this, and serve it well — medina riads compete on breakfast. If yours doesn't, the cafés around Boujloud and in the Ville Nouvelle do the full spread for a few dirhams. Order the 'petit déjeuner marocain' and don't plan lunch.
Keep reading: Brunch-adjacent options →
Brunch-adjacent options
A handful of places do a brunch-adjacent late morning. Café Clock (7 Derb El Magana) serves breakfast through the morning into lunch — muesli and fresh fruit, toasted sandwiches, and the famous almond milkshake — on the medina's best-known rooftop. It's the closest thing to a brunch menu in the old city.
The big new-town hotels (Barceló, Marriott Jnan Palace) do weekend breakfast buffets that stretch toward brunch hours — international spreads with Moroccan sections. Useful if you're staying nearby; not worth a special trip.
Café Clock
7 Derb El Magana, Talaa Kebira, Fes 30000
Café Clock serves breakfast into the lunch hours — muesli, fresh fruit, toasted sandwiches, and legendary almond milkshakes — on the medina's best-known terrace. The closest thing to brunch in the old city.
Best for: Late breakfast on the famous rooftop
What to order
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What to order, wherever you land: msemen with amlou (the almond-argan spread), baghrir with honey, khlii (dried beef) with eggs if you're feeling local, and a nous-nous (half coffee, half steamed milk) instead of a latte. Fresh-squeezed orange juice — Fez's oranges are superb — and mint tea to finish.
Skip: anything calling itself 'American breakfast' in the medina. You're in the wrong country for it, and the Moroccan alternative is better anyway.
Practical tips
- Moroccan breakfast is the move — msemen (flatbread), baghrir (pancakes), olives, and mint tea.
- Hotel breakfasts in riads are generous; ask what's included before paying extra elsewhere.
- Friday mornings are quiet — many places open late.
- Fresh orange juice is everywhere and costs almost nothing.
Fez mornings are for msemen and mint tea. The medina figured out breakfast centuries ago — just show up hungry.
What's on in Fez
Slow mornings, busy medina — see what's happening around town as it's announced:
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