NOLA is the signature jazz bar of Fairmont Taghazout Bay, at KM 17 on the Essaouira road about 17 km north of Agadir. The room borrows from the bar culture of New Orleans, where jazz was born, and pairs it with a serious whisky list, aged Cuban cigars and classic cocktail work. It runs cocktail evenings with live music, and it is one of the very few places on this coast programming jazz rather than a DJ set.
Perché andarci
NOLA Bar at Fairmont Taghazout Bay near Agadir is the coast's jazz bar, built around the bar culture of New Orleans where the music was born.
The whisky list is the headline, alongside aged Cuban cigars and a cocktail programme that leans on classics rather than novelty.
The hotel runs cocktail evenings with live music, which is rare on a coast where nearly everything is DJ led.
It is an intimate room rather than a big venue, with a long lit bar, curtains and low armchairs looking out over the gardens.
Fairmont Taghazout Bay also holds Juniper's, a garden bar with what it calls the widest gin selection in the region.
Musica e atmosfera
Jazz is the house sound, which the hotel ties directly to the New Orleans bars the room is modelled on.
Cocktail evenings are programmed with live music and signature drinks.
The room is dim, warm and seated, closer to a listening bar than a club floor.
Elsewhere in the resort the tone shifts: Morimoto runs a resident DJ playing deep house over its Japanese menu.
Serate migliori
The cocktail evenings with live music are the nights worth planning around.
It works well as a second stop after dinner at Paper Moon, Morimoto or the Tapa Wine Bar in the same resort.
Sunset drinks at the Tapa Wine Bar, which looks over the Atlantic, make a natural warm up before moving to NOLA.
Ingresso
The address is KM 17, Route d'Essaouira, Station Touristique, Taghazout Bay, 80750.
It is roughly a 20 minute drive north of Agadir along the coast road.
NOLA is a hotel bar, so entry is through Fairmont Taghazout Bay rather than a street door.
Reservations go through Taghazout.Reservations@fairmont.com.
Da sapere
Aged Cuban cigars are part of the offer, so the bar caters to a cigar crowd as well as a cocktail one.
The wider resort has Juniper's garden bar, the Tapa Wine Bar with Atlantic views, Morimoto, Paper Moon and the poolside Beef and Reef.
Tamraght, the nearest village to the south, is dry, so the licensed bars in this area are all inside the Taghazout Bay resorts.
NOLA Bar is inside Fairmont Taghazout Bay at KM 17, Route d'Essaouira, Station Touristique, Taghazout Bay, 80750, Morocco. That is about 17 km north of Agadir, roughly a 20 minute drive up the coast road.
Yes. NOLA is the signature jazz bar of Fairmont Taghazout Bay, modelled on the New Orleans bars where jazz was born, and it runs cocktail evenings with live music and signature drinks. That makes it unusual on this coast, where most venues are DJ led.
NOLA Bar at Fairmont Taghazout Bay serves classic and signature cocktails, a top class whisky collection and aged Cuban cigars. The rest of the resort adds Juniper's garden bar with a wide gin selection and the Tapa Wine Bar, which looks over the Atlantic.
The licensed bars in the Taghazout area are inside the Taghazout Bay resorts, since the neighbouring village of Tamraght is dry. Fairmont Taghazout Bay holds NOLA jazz bar, Juniper's garden bar and the Tapa Wine Bar, all at KM 17 on the Essaouira road.
