Menu highlights
- Warm bread, olives and nuts to start
- Fish soup
- Seafood tagine with squid and monkfish
- Grilled catch of the day (sole, St-Pierre or dorado)
- Honey, almond and walnut dessert with fruit
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Le Saveur du Poisson
Bourdain-famous fixed-menu seafood institution
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Le Saveur du Poisson, Tangier
Bourdain-famous fixed-menu seafood institution
Le Saveur du Poisson is a cult seafood institution in the Tangier medina, hidden on the Escalier Waller steps near the Grand Socco. There is no menu: everyone shares the same generous, multi-course feast built around the day's catch, and payment is cash only.
Why eat here
- Le Saveur du Poisson is Tangier's most legendary seafood table, a no-menu institution hidden on the Escalier Waller in the medina.
- Everyone is served the same fixed, multi-course feast built around the freshest catch of the day.
- Made famous worldwide when Anthony Bourdain made it his first stop in Tangier in 2013.
- Rustic, cash-only and family-run, with herbs from the Rif mountains and a secret house fruit drink.
Cuisine
- Fresh Moroccan seafood
- Fixed multi-course set menu
Price range
- Fixed set menu, around 250 MAD per person
- Cash only — no cards
Opening hours
- Lunch: 13:00–17:00
- Dinner: 19:00–22:30
- Closed on Fridays
- No reservations — arrive early
Best time
- Come early for lunch before the small dining room fills up
- Expect a queue at peak times
- Bring cash, as cards are not accepted
How to combine
- A few minutes from the Grand Socco and the medina gates
- Pair with a wander through the souks and the Petit Socco
- Walk up to the Kasbah afterwards for the views
Location
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Menu highlights at Le Saveur du Poisson include Warm bread, olives and nuts to start, Fish soup, Seafood tagine with squid and monkfish, Grilled catch of the day (sole, St-Pierre or dorado), and Honey, almond and walnut dessert with fruit.
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