Fez Cooking Class: Tajine & Souk Tour with Lunch

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1/11

Duration4h

GroupUp to 10

LanguagesEN · AR +1

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Cook Tajine in Fez's Medina, Then Eat It in a Palace Garden

You walk the souks with a chef, then cook a Moroccan tajine or eggplant dish in a restored palace workshop in Fez's medina. Lunch happens in the gardens afterward, and you leave with recipes. The four-hour version includes the souk visit; the shorter class skips it. Book dietary needs upfront.

Step-by-step itinerary

Cooking workshop and market tour

Explore Fez souks with chef
Taste local delicacies
Attend hands-on cooking workshop
Cook Moroccan Eggplant Caviar starter
Prepare Chicken Tajine main dish
Enjoy meal in palace gardens

The Experience

So you're standing in the souk and the chef is pointing at bundles of cilantro, dried rose petals, preserved lemons — things you've never thought to put together. The smell hits different when you know you're about to cook with it. That's the whole point of the Fez cooking class at Palais Amani: you don't just taste Moroccan food, you walk through where it comes from first, then make it yourself in a palace that's been restored room by room over years. The workshop happens in the medina, which means you're already deep in the old city when you start, not bussed in from some resort.

The class itself is hands-on — you're actually chopping, layering, seasoning. The menu changes, but you might be building a chicken tajine from scratch or making zaalouk, which is eggplant that tastes nothing like eggplant should. A chef guides you through the souk first if you're doing the four-hour version, so you see where each ingredient lives, how vendors talk about it, why they use what they use. It's not a performance. It's the opposite of a performance. You're learning the logic, not the show.

After you've cooked, you eat what you made in the palace gardens overlooking the medina's rooftops. The views are the kind that make you stop mid-bite. You get a full set of recipes to take home, which sounds small until you're back in your own kitchen three months later trying to remember how the spices layered. Vegetarian options are available — just let them know when you book. Children are welcome as long an adult is with them.

What’s included

Your workshop includes a guided souk visit (on the four-hour option), hands-on cooking instruction, lunch in the palace gardens, and a full set of recipes to take home. Vegetarian options are available with advance notice, and any dietary requirements can be arranged at booking.

Operated by Fez Cooking School

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to cook Moroccan food where it's actually cooked, not learn it from a video — the souk walk and palace setting are what make the recipe stick, and lunch in the gardens is what makes the morning feel complete rather than rushed.