Mechoui Alley
Traditional place to eat mechoui and tanjia (l,d; $)
Mechoui Alley is the name given to a little row of simple diners by the olive souk which are the traditional place for eating tanjia (jugged meat) and mechoui (slow-roast lamb).
Mechoui
Mechoui is a slow-roast lamb cooked in the ground, in a special earthen, wood-fired oven. The meat is cooked for five hours. The result is a kind of pulled lamb, deliciously tender but with a slight barbecue crunch.
They sell mechoui here by weight, at 170dh/kg, and a quarter kilo or is about one portion. It's seasoned with salt and cumin, served with bread. and mostly sold as a takeaway, The lamb comes out of the oven around 11am, and by 2pm-odd, it's gone. A good thing to eat with it are olives from the stalls directly opposite.