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مطعم شعبيOne menu.Fish,and charcoal.

At the foot of the Waller steps you don’t choose: you sit down and the kitchen sends everything. Nuts, soup, charcoal-grilled fish, spinach with monkfish, fruit and the house juice.

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Closed Fridays · 1–5 pm and 7–10.30 pm

The table laid: dried fruit and nuts, spicy tomato sauce, olive oil
A steaming pan of monkfish and calamari with spinach
The platter of charcoal-grilled fish with lime
Fresh strawberries in a clay bowl
The dark red house juice served in a wine glass

250 DHper person

1The welcome

How it works

Four courses, no menu to read.

The idea hasn’t changed in years: one single menu, whatever the sea gave that morning, cooked over charcoal.

  1. The table laid: dried fruit and nuts, spicy tomato sauce, olive oil

    The welcome on the cloth

    Before you even order — you don’t order — the clay bowls arrive: toasted almonds, dried fruit, olives, house bread, olive oil and spicy tomato sauce.

    • Almonds
    • Olives
    • House bread
  2. The kitchen: clay pots and blue tiles

    The fish soup

    A thick soup of natural barley, corn and millet with shark and monkfish, simmered in the clay pots of the small kitchen.

    • Barley
    • Shark
    • Monkfish
  3. The platter of charcoal-grilled fish with lime

    Fish over charcoal

    The catch of the day grilled over embers — John Dory, turbot, sole or sea bass —, the pan of spinach with monkfish, calamari and shark, and spiced shark skewers.

    • John Dory
    • Turbot
    • Sole
    • Sea bass
  4. Fresh strawberries in a clay bowl

    Dessert and the juice

    Barley with natural honey and almonds, seasonal fruit, and the famous red house juice, served in a wine glass — its recipe stays a secret.

    • Honey
    • Fruit
    • House juice
250 DH

The full menu, per person. Juice and drinks extra. Bring cash.

See the menu
The room: blue zellige, paintings and white cloths
The painted “Restaurant Populaire” sign over the entrance
The cook at the grill, fresh herbs on the counter

At Mohamed’s

A small zellige room at the foot of the steps.

Under the painted “Restaurant Populaire” sign: a room tiled in blue, paintings on the walls, an open grill and clay pots. An address travel guides have quoted for years.

  • ★ 4.4 · 2,012 Google reviews
  • Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice 2024
  • Featured by Fodor’s and Lonely Planet
  • Closed on Fridays
  • Cash advised

The street, the room, the embers.

Photos by guests. Tap a photo to enlarge it.

2 Escalier Waller.

From Rue de la Liberté, walk down the Waller steps towards the medina: the “Restaurant Populaire” sign is at the bottom.

Address
2 Escalier Waller (off Rue de la Liberté), Tangier, Morocco
Opening hours
Lunch (except Friday) 13:00 – 17:00Dinner (except Friday) 19:00 – 22:30Friday —
DirectionsCall the restaurant
Saveur de Poisson · Waller steps · Tangier