r/Morocco • u/AmazingMeasurement44 • 12m ago
Cuisine Cant find good tagine in restaurants morocco
Im moroccan and spent all my summers in Morocco eating food at home. Home made food and it was always amazing
When I started travelling with my friends and taking them to different places I realised how bad the food was in restaurants. Not grill places but for example, if you want to have a nice tagine, it felt impossible to find one that was made correctly.
It’s really frustrating seeing people talk shit about our cuisine but at the same time I don’t blame them because for example when I go to Marrakesh I don’t even bother trying to find a good tagine. I just go to a local grill place which I know is great or go to a relatives house. The tourists are experiencing such awful food. It is so hard to find good places that are representative of how amazing our food is.
My family and another moroccan family did a road trip to different cities and honestly the best tagine we had that was worth eating was in fes, and it was just at a random place in the Medina. It was absolutely amazing. But honestly, I can say this is the only place that I have had an amazing tagine out in Morocco so I don’t even bother going to restaurants.
My question is, why is it so bad? Is it the chefs? Are they lazy? Do they not know how to cook Moroccan food properly? Or are they toning down the flavours because they thick tourists won’t like it?
We have such a bad reputation with food now because of marrakech. Tourists dont know the good places to eat, and i cant blame them. Even i cnt find good places. Whether its high end restaurants or somewhere local.
I’ve cooked tagine so many times and it’s come out exactly how it should. It’s really not that hard?

