Evening street food walks from the main square and cooking classes in the medina, compared by group size, what you actually eat, diet options and where a route stops at a shop.
Food tours
Cooking classes
Pick a day, or the first and last day of your stay in Marrakech. We check the booking calendar of every food tour and cooking class and show which ones still have places.
Group: Shared group
Group: Shared or private
Group: Private
Group: Up to 10
Duration: 3 h
Group: Up to 8
Group: Private
Duration: 2.5 h
Duration: 3 h
Group: Up to 10
Duration: 3 h
Duration: 3.5 h
Group: Up to 10
Group: Up to 10
Group: Up to 10
Duration: 4 h
Group: Private option
Each tour or class below stands out on one point. The tables further down list them all, with group size, meeting point and diet.
The listing caps the group at eight guests. You walk from Bab Doukkala with a foodie guide and try more than 15 dishes, from street snacks to full plates. Not suitable for vegans or people with food allergies.
The listing says vegan options are always available, with gluten-free alternatives and room for nut allergies. A shared evening walk from Café Argana on Jemaa el-Fnaa, with guides who speak English, German, Dutch or Arabic.
A cooking class in a local home: you cook lunch or dinner step by step with a bilingual guide, eat together and take the recipes home.
A short market walk to buy the ingredients, then you cook with a Moroccan chef and eat what you made for lunch or dinner. Recipes arrive by email afterwards.
Two questions about the evening you have in mind, then our suggestion.
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No tour fits every answer, so here is the closest one.
Eight guests at most. Long-running family restaurants around Bab Doukkala.
Group of ten at most. Neighbourhoods away from the main tourist lanes.
Street vendors and food stalls rather than restaurants. Pastries, pancakes and soups among 10 to 12 tastings.
Only your own group with one local host. Ten tastings and two soft drinks.
Dinner at a stall on Jemaa el-Fnaa: tangia or vegetarian tagine. Harira with dates and chebakia.
Night walk through the medina. Souk Semmarine and the food stalls of the main square.
Harira, msemen and snail broth or sheep’s head, depending on the route. Raib and pastries for dessert.
Short market visit for vegetables. Beef with prunes, chicken with preserved lemon and a vegetable tagine.
Cooking school of a riad hotel. Modern equipment, chef with live translation.
Market visit in the morning session. Modern kitchen.
Guided souk walk focused on Moroccan ingredients. Hands-on tajine cooking in a traditional riad.
Shopping for ingredients at a local market. Cooking with Moroccan cooks.
The only class on this site built around vegetarian and vegan cooking. Family home in the medina.
Moroccan bread baked in class. Chicken tagine with olives and a meatball tagine.
Family setting. Tagine, couscous or tanjia as the main course.
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Street food tour with a local guide Reiseführer Abdo | Shared | About 3 h | 10 to 12 tastings | Veg, vegan, gluten-free | ★ 4.8 (4,426) | €29per person | Book now |
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Street food tour by night Marrakech Guided Experience | Shared or private | 2.5 to 3 h | Tastings, mint tea | ★ 4.7 (3,287) | €43per person | Book now | |
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Private night food tour with dinner Intrepid Urban Adventures - Europe | Private, up to 12 | 3 h | Tastings and dinner | Veg, vegan; no gluten-free | ★ 4.7 (407) | €138per person | Book now |
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Taste the real Marrakech Flavors of Marrakesh | Up to 10 | 4 h | Tastings, tea, water | Allergies on request | ★ 4.9 (327) | €45per person | Book now |
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Food walking tour with dinner One Life Trips | Shared | 3 h | Tastings and dinner | ★ 4.8 (285) | €44per person | Book now | |
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Medina stories food tour A Chef's Tour | Up to 8 | 4 h | 15+ tastings | Not vegan or coeliac | ★ 4.9 (234) | €49per person | Book now |
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Private food tour, ten tastings Withlocals | Private | 4 h | 10 tastings, 2 drinks | Vegetarian on request | ★ 4.4 (24) | €79per person | Book now |
Per-person prices as GetYourGuide lists them today; the checkout shows the final amount for your evening or cooking session.
Length, market visit, hotel pickup and the diet options each listing states.
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Cooking class with market visit Khmisa Workshops | 2.5 to 3 h | Included | No | Asked at the start | ★ 4.8 (2,821) | €38per person | Book now |
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Cooking class with hotel pickup Click Excursions | 3 h | No | Included | ★ 4.6 (2,608) | €27per person | Book now | |
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Cooking class with a local chef KECHCOOK PRIVE SARL | 4 h | Included | No | Veg, vegan, gluten-free | ★ 5.0 (2,030) | €37per person | Book now |
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Cooking class in a medina house Reiseführer Abdo | 3 h | No | Extra cost | Adapted, no allergies | ★ 4.8 (943) | €21per person | Book now |
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Cooking class with a local family Cooking class with chef Fatima | 3.5 h | No | No | Veg, vegan, allergies | ★ 4.9 (875) | €33per person | Book now |
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Cooking workshop at La Maison Arabe La Maison Arabe Marrakech | 3 h | No | No | ★ 4.9 (793) | €59per person | Book now | |
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Cooking class and market visit Flavors of Marrakesh | 4 h | Morning class | No | ★ 5.0 (479) | €53per person | Book now | |
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Atlas cooking class with a Berber family Atlas Mountains Day Trips from Marrakech | 7 h, full day | Included | Included | ★ 4.8 (443) | €46per person | Book now | |
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Tajine class in a riad Intrepid Urban Adventures - Europe | 4 h | Included | No | Veg, vegan, gluten-free | ★ 4.8 (434) | €49per person | Book now |
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Vegetarian and vegan cooking class Cooking class with chef Fatima | 4 h | No | No | Vegetarian and vegan | ★ 4.8 (242) | €29per person | Book now |
Per-person prices as GetYourGuide lists them today; the checkout shows the final amount for your evening or cooking session.
The Atlas class with a Berber family is a full day with a drive into the mountains. Other day trips from the city, from the Ourika valley to Imlil, are compared on our sister site Marrakech Escapes.
Taken from each listing: the group size it states, what the evening or class consists of, and whether hotel pickup is part of the price. “Not stated” means the listing does not say.
| Tour or class | Group | What you do | Hotel pickup | Length |
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| Street food tour with a local guide from Café Argana | Shared group | Tasting walk | Extra cost | 3 h |
| Street food tour by night from Café de France | Shared or private | Tasting walk | Not included | 2.5–3 h |
| Private night street food tour with dinner on Jemaa el-Fnaa | Private | Tastings and dinner | Not stated | 3 h |
| Taste the real Marrakech on a small-group street food tour | Up to 10 | Tasting walk | Not included | 4 h |
| Moroccan food walking tour with dinner | Not stated | Tastings and dinner | Not included | 3 h |
| Medina stories food tour with more than 15 tastings | Up to 8 | Tasting walk | Not included | 4 h |
| Private food tour with ten tastings and a local host | Private | Tasting walk | Not included | 4 h |
| Traditional Moroccan cooking class with a food market visit | Not stated | Market, then cooking | Not included | 2.5–3 h |
| Moroccan cooking class at Chouf l’Or with hotel pickup | Not stated | Cooking class | Included | 3 h |
| Moroccan dishes cooking class with a local chef | Up to 10 | Market, then cooking | Not included | 4 h |
| Cooking class of Moroccan cuisine in a medina house | Not stated | Cooking class | Extra cost | 3 h |
| Moroccan cooking class with a local family | Not stated | Cooking class | Not included | 3.5 h |
| Three-hour Moroccan cooking workshop at La Maison Arabe | Up to 10 | Cooking class | Not included | 60 min–3 h |
| Cooking class and market visit by Flavors of Marrakech | Up to 10 | Cooking, market in the morning class | Not included | 4 h |
| Atlas Mountains cooking class with a Berber family | Up to 10 | Market, then cooking | Included | 7 h |
| Moroccan cooking class for vegetarians and vegans | Not stated | Cooking class | Not included | 4 h |
| Tajine cooking class in a traditional riad with a souk walk | Private option | Market, then cooking | Not included | 4 h |
From the GetYourGuide listings, checked in October 2026. The length is the operator’s own figure.
What decides the evening is less the operator than the format: how many people share one guide, if there is a sit-down dinner, and if you cook yourself.
The big evening walks from Café de France, Café Argana or the post office, with many stalls in about three hours.
A stated maximum, longer walks and more tastings, starting away from the busiest part of the square.
Only your own group walks with the guide. You set the pace, and the price sits well above the shared walks.
Shop at a market, cook a tagine and eat it. Fewer dishes than on a food tour, but you learn how they are made.
Guests praise the guides who know their stalls, the sheer amount of food and the dishes they cooked themselves. One guest found the guide hard to hear at the busiest stops.
“really great experience - lots of food and knowledge, tried lots of places to eat we probably wouldn’t have visited otherwise”
“It was quite difficult to hear the guide talk in many of the locations we were at so we missed most of the narration that accompanied the food. I was suprised to be taken to an “Argan Oil” hard sell session, it was a waste of time & had no relation to Moroccan food & therefore should not be …”
“Definitely do NOT miss this tour! This was our favorite activity when visiting Marrakech. Both my mother and I loved it - our guides, Nour and Omar were INCREDIBLE! We did read that we should come hungry and we did. All of us in the group of 10 people made the mistake of eating more of the first …”
“Couldn’t recommend this food tour more!! Rachid was incredibly knowledgeable and you could tell he was really passionate and wanted to make the experience as good as possible for the group. They weren’t lying when they said go hungry, so much food but all so delicious!!”
“Cooking class was great and a perfect chilled activity for a day. Guide was very nice and knowledgeable, made sure everyone was involved and knew what was going on. Food we prepared was some of the best we have had in Marrakech. Would definitely recommend.”
“We felt very welcome and learnt a lot about the Moroccan cuisine! We can wholeheartedly recommend the experience.”
Reviews by guests after their food tour or class, from GetYourGuide.
Ramadan 2027 is expected roughly from February into early March; the exact start and end depend on the sighting of the new moon, so check again shortly before you travel. During the day most food stalls stay closed. After sunset the city breaks the fast together, and the evening tours continue in a changed form. One Life Trips drops its dinner, and the Khmisa cooking class sells a separate Ramadan evening session that skips the market. KECHCOOK states that its class runs during Ramadan.
Group size, appetite for snails and sheep’s head, vegetarian or vegan, and budget.
Read moreEvening on the square or a morning at the market, and how to combine both.
Read moreWhat each tour and class states about meat-free and gluten-free food.
Read moreHow to spot a busy stall, what to skip, and what a guide can and cannot do.
Read moreTangia, harira, msemen, sfenj and babbouche, and where each one is served.
Read moreTastings, dinner, tips and transport: what each listing includes.
Read moreThis site lists the bookable food tours and cooking classes in Marrakech with group size, meeting point, menu and diet options as the operators state them. When you book through a link here, GetYourGuide pays us a commission out of its margin; your price stays the same.
For most visitors, A Chef’s Tour: eight guests at most and more than fifteen tastings over four hours, starting at Bab Doukkala away from the busiest part of the square. It is not suitable for vegans or coeliacs; then look at Reiseführer Abdo or the Urban Adventures tour, which name vegetarian and vegan options plainly. The large shared walks from Jemaa el-Fnaa are the cheapest way in and leave every evening, and Withlocals and Urban Adventures sell private tours if you want only your own group.
Almost all of them. The stalls on Jemaa el-Fnaa are set up after sunset and the heat has eased by then. Reiseführer Abdo also lists morning slots. If you want a morning food experience, a cooking class with a market visit is the usual choice.
On some tours, yes. Reiseführer Abdo offers vegetarian and vegan food, plus gluten-free and nut-free alternatives on request. Urban Adventures caters for vegetarians and vegans but not for gluten intolerance. Withlocals adapts its private tour for vegetarians. A Chef’s Tour is not suitable for vegans or coeliacs. Several listings say nothing, so ask before booking. Among the cooking classes, KECHCOOK and the Urban Adventures tajine class cook vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free, and one class is built entirely around vegetarian and vegan cooking.
A guide picks stalls with high turnover and food cooked in front of you, which lowers the risk, but no guide can rule out an upset stomach. Hand-washing points and water taps on the square help. Skip anything you are unsure about and tell the guide early if something does not agree with you.
Some do. One Life Trips may stop at a herbalist’s shop for mint tea and spices, depending on the pace of the walk. On the Marrakech Guided Experience walk a pharmacy stop can come up, and one review of Reiseführer Abdo mentions a shop visit. You never have to buy anything; a polite no is enough.
It varies more than the titles suggest. The big shared walks do not state a maximum. Flavors of Marrakesh limits its street food tour to ten guests and A Chef’s Tour to eight. On this booking platform Withlocals and Urban Adventures sell their food tours as private tours.
They fit different times of day. Food tours run in the evening and cover many stalls and dishes in a few hours. Cooking classes usually run around lunch or dinner, often start with a market visit, and teach you two or three dishes in depth. Many visitors book both: a food tour on the first evening, a class later in the stay.
Yes, but differently. During the day many stalls are closed, and in the evening the city eats together after sunset. One Life Trips drops its dinner during Ramadan, and the Khmisa cooking class sells a separate Ramadan evening session without the market. Ramadan 2027 is expected to fall roughly from February to early March; the exact dates depend on the sighting of the moon.
Reviewers keep saying it: a food tour here is dinner, so book it for an evening without other plans.
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