A good place to try out some typical Moroccan sweets is the little unnamed sweet shop on the inside of Bab Agnaou.

These are not the refined pastries that you'd get at a posh patisserie, but the traditional sticky sweets that ordinary Moroccans eat. Most are made from pastry filled with nuts and fried in syrup, with a bit of orange blossom water sprinkled on top. To Western tastes they're very sweet, but they're worth trying and you couldn't hope for a more authentic place to buy them than here.

The sweets are sold by weight. Briouat, for example, which are nut-filled pastry triangles that look like sticky miniature samosas, go for 50dh/kg, but they're happy to sell just one or two for 3dh a piece.

Other sweets on offer include chebakia (strips of dough twisted into the shape of a rose, fried in syrup and sprinkled with sesame), ghuriba (a shortbread-style cookie), and makrout (a semolina biscuit stuffed with dates).

Practical Info

Passage Bab Agnaou (just inside the gate, on the south side of the entrance), Médina, Marrakech 40000

Daily 9am–9pm