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Where can you take a cooking class in Marrakech?

Well-known options include the cooking school at La Maison Arabe in Bab Doukkala, the Amal women's training centre's class in Targa, and Café Clock in the Kasbah.

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the Marrakech Tours team
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October 2026
Jemaa el-Fnaa square in Marrakech by day

The short answer

Well-known options include the cooking school at La Maison Arabe in Bab Doukkala, the Amal women's training centre's class in Targa, and Café Clock in the Kasbah. Several riads, such as Riad 11 Zitoune and Riad Joya, also teach in their own kitchens, and Um Mami in Sidi Ghanem runs classes and food events.

In more detail

La Maison Arabe, founded in 1946 beside the Bab Doukkala mosque, runs a hands-on cooking school. Guests cook an appetiser, a main dish and a dessert with a dada, a traditional Moroccan cook, and the workshop includes a visit to a spice market and a communal bread oven. It runs daily by reservation.

Amal is a nonprofit that trains disadvantaged women in professional cooking. At its Targa centre, visitors cook a Moroccan dish over about three hours alongside the trainee chefs, with a traditional tea ceremony, by appointment. The Targa garden centre also opens a vegetarian buffet lunch to walk-in visitors on Saturdays.

Café Clock, on two floors and a roof terrace in the Kasbah, hosts cooking classes alongside its live music and storytelling. Riad 11 Zitoune runs cooking classes and themed dinners in its riad restaurant, and Riad Joya in Mouassine offers a souk visit and cooking class with its chef for guests who book ahead. Um Mami, a culinary hub in the Sidi Ghanem design district created by the Melting Pot Foundation, combines cooking classes with training and private dining.

Out of town, Café Restaurant Chez l'Habitant, off the Route de Fès, is a village restaurant where day-trippers come for hands-on classes and local families eat alongside them.

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