Derb Dabachi
Bustling covered market alley of food stalls and street kitchens threading deep into the old medina.
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This guide to Derb Dabachi in Marrakesh follows the covered market alley running more than five hundred meters into the medina past Cafe de France, where locals say the food outdoes anywhere near the square. You'll hear about the griddle sandwiches, shawarma stalls, and small kitchens serving tagine and couscous under a corrugated trellis, and how the alley's mood shifts from chaotic entrance to quieter covered stretch. It traces the derb back to the Almoravid dynasty that raised the walled city in the ten-seventies.
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