L’Italien par Jean-Georges Marrakech

L’Italien par Jean-Georges sits on Avenue Bab Jdid. The restaurant holds a place as no. 18 on La Liste, and the room runs smart and elegant.

You choose this venue for the Mediterranean and Italian cooking, which provides a necessary friction against the surrounding city. While the menus lean toward contemporary refinement, the real argument for the address is the distance from the tourist crush; it sits a twenty-minute walk from Jemaa el-Fna, buying a measure of stillness the central souks simply do not permit. It is a more deliberate choice than the frenetic spots clustered near Souk Semmarine, serving those who prefer their dinner with the buffer of a long walk back to the heart of the action.