Mamounia Palace Restaurant — Restaurant in arrondissement de Tanger-Medina طنجة المدينة

Mamounia Palace is a Moroccan tourist restaurant located 100 feet inside the Medina, approached from the Grand Socco.

You must walk up some steep stairs to enter the restaurant. It was here that I had one of the first Moroccan meals on my very first visit to the city over 35 years ago. It opened in 1960.

Mamounia Palace is a restaurant in the Medina of Tangier that specializes in Moroccan foods. It attracts mainly tourists and groups and it used to have a semi-festive ambiance, with belly-dancers and live musicians. Once, three decades ago, was enough for me.

In August 2009, the entire building, restaurant and surrounding area was transformed into film set location that was supposedly in Mombasa, Kenya. The upstairs restaurant was temporarily made into a hotel and the street below became an African street market. The film was "Inception”, starring the actor Leonardo DiCaprio and was premiered in 2010.

I recall passing by perhaps 200 film production crew with trucks at the Grand Socco and into a crowd of curious onlookers near the Mamounia Palace “hotel” and briefly stood a mere ten feet away from Leonardo DiCaprio.

After the filming was finished, the "hotel" was fully reconverted back into the restaurant. The oldest pharmacy in Morocco, Pharmacie Anegay, is still on the ground level.

Mamounia Palace opens at 10:00 AM and now serves breakfasts. A new sign above the door says Visa and presumably MasterCard are accepted, but it would be wise to bring cash in Dirhams,...

If I could give this place a 0 (zero star) I would.

My advice: don’t go. Run away.

We did a free walking tour and the tour was interesting but ended up at this restaurant.

We were sooo hungry that we did NOT Check reviews Or Prices

The food was the worse Morocc on food I have had. The old man working there, head waiter or maitre de hurried us.

He said we can only order set menu. Soup, came to us by a guy carrying a big vessels from kitchen. This is how prisoners get their food.

Main dish was so bad, I don’t even remember and he told us that was it.

We asked him that the 3 course meal had dessert, he was surprised that we remembered

He went and got some sweet pieces from the kitchen .

We have 280 for 2, that is $14 each.

Please do yourself a favor, go eat anywhere else in Tangier and you will be better off.

This meal was not worth more than 60 each.

The free your...

I am celiac. I explained very well the issue and how bad I feel if I eat something that contains even a slight amount of gluten. They quickly mentioned they had options and that other people with the same disease went there previously. The brought me a salad with clear pieces of couscous (gluten full) and a tajin with also pieces of couscous. I let them notice, they brought another one and again there was cous cous in it. In the meanwhile, my boyfriend was denied to look at a menu and they brought him the same 2 dishes as mine. He ate both, as I could not have them. They made us pay 430 dhm (43 euros). Worst experience so far. Other guests: a family of 5 besides us left before they even brought them food, a couple who arrived when we got there was also very annoyed by the ways. You can be not nice, but you can not underestimate the issue that celiacs travelling can have if...