Spending New Year’s Eve in Morocco is a unique experience that is on the bucket list for tourists and expats alike. Morocco’s diverse landscape and cities will allow you to celebrate the New Year in the way that best suits you. Are you a party animal and a fan of all that glitters? Head for the ochre city: Marrakech. Do you like good restaurants and the urban atmosphere of a big city? Then we recommend Casablanca. Do you want to recharge your batteries and get away from it all for a New Year’s Eve closer to nature? The towns of Essaouira or Taghazout on the coast are just waiting for you.
To make life easier for our Spotters, we have compiled in this article a list of good addresses as well as the menus that these establishments propose to celebrate the passage to the new year.
Please note: All the addresses we present here serve alcohol (which is not the case everywhere in Morocco), so you can raise a glass (or several!) to the New Year 2023.
Spending the New Year in Casablanca
The White City is full of fabulous places to spend a good New Year’s Eve. Here are our favourites:
Dar Dada
THE Casablanca restaurant that has been in the news for the past few years, offers a magnificent setting that mixes tradition and modernity. In this riad, nestled in the medina of Casablanca, fitted out as a restaurant on two floors, you will undoubtedly spend an unforgettable evening: impeccable service, refined Moroccan dishes and live music.
To spend New Year’s Eve there, the menu will cost you 650 dhs if you sit upstairs or 850 dhs for a table on the ground floor.
Louna Music Hall
For a less traditional atmosphere, we invite you to go to the Corniche to spend your New Year’s Eve at Louna. Shows, performances and live music will be on the agenda. More than a simple meal, Louna Music Hall offers you a real experience, to start this year 2023 in a magical way.
The menu is 2000 dhs and 3000 dhs for VIP.
Coco Lounge Bar
If you like jazz and blues, the Coco lounge is the perfect place to have a groovy New Year’s Eve! A live band and a troupe of dancers will make you vibrate to the rhythm of the music of the 80s and 90s.
To spend a wild New Year’s Eve, you will have to pay 2500 dhs for the evening.
Le Béret
Le Béret, a bistro-style restaurant belonging to the La Corniche group, welcomes you to enjoy a French New Year’s Eve.
Note that the menu is at 1800 dhs.
Spending the New Year in Marrakech
Want to say goodbye to 2022 in the beautiful ochre city, known for its palaces of the thousand and one nights and its famous medina that never sleeps? Follow the guide.
Kabana
This superb rooftop restaurant with a breathtaking view of the Koutoubia, located 5 minutes from Jemaa El Fna Square, is (unsurprisingly) one of the most popular places in town. The lounge-style restaurant offers a variety of delicious dishes and original cocktails, all in a relaxed and festive atmosphere.
As usual, they are planning a whole host of surprises for the last week of December, including guest DJ stars from 26 to 31 December. Get ready to dance the night away!
Here is the line up:
Royal Mansour
Considered as one of the most beautiful palace-hotels in the world, the Royal Mansour knows how to adorn itself with its most beautiful ornaments to celebrate the end of the year as it should. You will be amazed by this magnificent establishment and will be able to discover on its walls the most beautiful Moroccan handicrafts.
For New Year’s Eve, the Royal Mansour offers two menus: a brasserie menu in the Table restaurant at 4000 dhs per person or a gastronomy menu at the Grandes Tables du palace at 8500 dhs per person.
Four Seasons
For the end of the year celebrations, the Four Seasons, a world-renowned hotel chain, has pulled out all the stops: a Christmas market (on 23 and 24 December and 29 and 30 December), a Christmas log inspired by Moroccan Zellige and, of course, an exceptional New Year’s Eve meal in their very beautiful Italian establishment, the Quattro.
The special Christmas Eve menu is priced at 950 dhs per person.
Spend New Year’s Eve in Essaouira
Quieter than Marrakech and Casablanca, the city of Essaouira will charm you with its seafront, its port and its authenticity.
Dar Baba
An old riad renovated in the medina of Essaouira, decorative elements found in the four corners of the Kingdom, a welcoming team, dishes to die for… This is what the Dar Baba restaurant offers you.
In addition to the magnificent setting to take you on a journey on New Year’s Eve, they have concocted a special 1300 dhs menu for the occasion that will delight your taste buds.
Spending the New Year in Taghazout
Taghazout is a tiny fishing village near Agadir, well known to surfers around the world. If you are looking for authenticity and breathtaking landscapes, go for it. A significant advantage is that you can find relatively affordable accommodation right on the water.
Paradis Plage
To celebrate New Year’s Eve with your feet in the water (literally!), we advise you to go to Paradis Plage, one of the first eco resorts to be created in Morocco. If you’re not too exhausted from your morning, noon and evening surfing lessons (yes, it’s a real religion in Taghazout), you can end the year in style with a menu prepared by the Paradis Plage team in an idyllic setting.
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Tue 20 Dec at 01:56Wow, these places look great! I was wondering where I’d go for the New year’s eve, I’ll have to talk to my wife about Kabana! I’ve heard so many things about this rooftop.
Really good article!
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