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💡 The Short Version: For a class that funds a good cause, Amal’s Targa Center runs a three-hour class from 09:30 to 13:00, Monday to Friday: 400 MAD (about £31) for tajines, 500 MAD (about £38) for couscous or pastilla. The class with the most reviews is the Traditional Moroccan Cooking Class & Food Marketad, £27.70 to £31.65, 4.8 stars from 2,752 reviews. For a small group, the 4-hour class with a local chefad is 5.0 stars from 1,953 reviews and is marked likely to sell out. The cheapest is £15.83 in a local home. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices and move with the date.
The classes, compared
Pound figures for dirham prices round to the nearest pound. Where GetYourGuide shows a discount on some dates, the range runs from the discounted price to the usual one.
| Class | Length | Price | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amal Targa Center | 3 hours | 400 MAD (about £31) for tajines, 500 MAD (about £38) for couscous or pastilla | A non-profit’s garden kitchen, with tea ceremony and the meal |
| La Maison Arabe | 3 hours, or a 1-hour express class | Not published | The hotel’s cooking school |
| Lalla Zehra | A lunch or a dinner class | 600 MAD (about £46) | A farmhouse on the Route d’Ourika |
| Traditional Cooking Class & Food Marketad | 2½ to 3 hours | £27.70 to £31.65 | A market visit, a meal and tea |
| Cooking Class with Pick-upad | 3 hours | £21.37 to £30.55 | Taught by a professional chef; hotel pick-up |
| Moroccan Dishes with a Local Chefad | 4 hours | £30.47 to £33.24 | A small group |
| Cooking Class in a Local Homead | 3 hours | £15.83 to £19.78 | A home in the medina |
| Cooking Class with a Local Familyad | 3½ hours | £23.58 to £27.70 | A chef’s house |
| Flavours of Marrakechad | 4 hours | £47.09 to £55.40 | A small group with a market visit |
| Class for vegetarians and vegansad | 4 hours | £21.37 to £23.74 | A chef’s private home |
Classes you book direct
Amal Targa Center
Targa Center · Monday to Friday 09:30 to 13:00 · 400 MAD for tajines, 500 MAD for couscous or pastilla · website
Amal is a non-profit that trains women in cooking. In its garden kitchen you make your own Moroccan dish with its chefs, and the three-hour class includes a traditional tea ceremony and ends with the meal you cooked, with recipes to take home. A baking class runs from 10:00 to 12:30, Monday to Friday, at 300 MAD (about £23), making Ghreyba cookies and msemmen. Book through the form on its site. A garden brunch is served every day from 09:00 to 15:00, from 180 MAD (about £14) a head. For its restaurants, see where to eat in Marrakech.
A tajine served at Amal. Photo: Andrew Nash, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
La Maison Arabe
Bab Doukkala · a 3-hour workshop or a 1-hour express class · cooking school
The hotel runs its workshops at its cooking schools, either in the hotel or at its Country Club, where you pick herbs in an organic garden. In a typical half-day workshop you prepare an appetiser and a main dish, watch a demonstration of the dessert and eat the results, at an individual station with a closed-circuit screen. The 1-hour express class is for a visitor short of time. Book by email at reservation@lamaisonarabe.com or on +212 524 38 70 10. GetYourGuide sells the workshop as the Moroccan Cooking Workshop at La Maison Arabead, from £25.01 (4.9 stars from 732 reviews, 1 to 3 hours), cooking alongside a dada, a traditional Moroccan household cook. The hotel is in where to stay in Marrakech.
Lalla Zehra
23 km, Route d’Ourika · 600 MAD · lunch class 10:00 to 14:00, dinner class 16:00 to 20:00 · website
A family farmhouse 23 km from the markets, with the class held in the garden among olive trees. The price is 600 MAD (about £46) a head, with a welcome tea, a tagine of your choice (lamb, chicken, fish or vegetarian), zaalouk, an aubergine and tomato salad, and bread, and with coffee, tea, water and soft drinks included. It is a half-day out of the city: see day trips from Marrakech.
Cookin’ Marrakech
Chef Hassan · about 4 hours with a market visit · website
A small-group class in a local home with Chef Hassan: a visit to a traditional market to choose vegetables, herbs and spices, a mint-tea ceremony, the cooking and the meal. The class usually lasts around 4 hours, with hotel pick-up and drop-off, vegetarian and vegan options, and free cancellation up to 24 hours before. The site says it is open in Ramadan and that booking direct is cheaper.
Marrakech.Cooking
Traditional kitchens · book by WhatsApp or email · website
Classes in traditional Marrakech kitchens, with hotel or riad pick-up. The 3-hour class covers a tagine, salads and mint tea, and a second class adds a souk visit to choose the produce; private classes are available.
Classes on GetYourGuide
Traditional Moroccan Cooking Class & Food Market
£27.70 to £31.65 · 4.8 stars from 2,752 reviews · 2½ to 3 hours
Marrakech Traditional Moroccan Cooking Class & Food Marketad is marked a best seller. Moroccan chefs show you how to shop at the local market and put together the ingredients for a meal and tea; the listing highlights a milk pastilla, a layered dessert. A meal is included, and you book at least an hour ahead.
A spice market in Marrakech. Photo: Jakub Hałun, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
Moroccan Dishes Cooking Class with a Local Chef
£30.47 to £33.24 · 5.0 stars from 1,953 reviews · 4 hours
Marrakesh: Moroccan Dishes Cooking Class with a Local Chefad is a half-day small-group class that ends with the meal you cooked. GetYourGuide marks it likely to sell out.
Cooking Class with Pick-up
£21.37 to £30.55 · 4.6 stars from 2,515 reviews · 3 hours
Marrakech: Moroccan Cooking Class with Pickupad is taught by a professional chef, with hotel pick-up, mint tea and a meal to share. It is wheelchair accessible.
Local homes, a vegetarian class and the Atlas
Moroccan Cuisine Cooking Class in a Local Homead is a 3-hour class in a home in the medina, from £15.83 (4.8 stars from 861 reviews). Moroccan Cooking Class with a Local Familyad, at a chef’s house, is 3½ hours from £23.58 (4.9 stars from 838 reviews) and wheelchair accessible. Moroccan Cooking Class for vegetarians and vegansad is 4 hours in a chef’s private home, from £21.37 (4.8 stars from 234 reviews). Cooking Class & Market Visit by Flavours of Marrakechad is a 4-hour small group from £47.09 (5.0 stars from 454 reviews). For a day out, Atlas Mountains Cooking Class with a Berber Familyad is 7 hours from £34.82 (4.8 stars from 417 reviews): you learn a traditional dish with a local grandmother and eat a 2-course lunch, with pick-up available. For a short experience, the Traditional Moroccan Tea Ceremonyad at Riad Les Sources Berbères is 45 minutes from £11.87 (4.9 stars from 139 reviews).
How to choose
- The most reviewed: the Traditional Cooking Class & Food Market, 2,752 reviews.
- The cheapest: the class in a local home, from £15.83.
- A small group: the 4-hour class with a local chef, 5.0 stars from 1,953 reviews; book early.
- Vegetarian or vegan: the GetYourGuide class for vegetarians and vegans, or Cookin’ Marrakech, which lists vegetarian and vegan options.
- A good cause: Amal’s Targa Center, on weekday mornings only.
- A hotel kitchen: La Maison Arabe, 3 hours or a 1-hour express class.
- Out of the city: Lalla Zehra’s farmhouse, or the Atlas class with a Berber family.
- Pick-up: the Cooking Class with Pick-up, Cookin’ Marrakech and Marrakech.Cooking.
- Ramadan: Cookin’ Marrakech says it is open; Amal’s Targa Center plans a ftour, the evening meal that ends the fast. See best time to visit Marrakech.
For restaurants rather than a class, where to eat in Marrakech lists the 50 Best restaurants and the places guides name most often. The guided walks are in Marrakech food tours compared. Some classes start at a market: see the Marrakech souks. Where to stay in Marrakech compares the areas, Marrakech hammams lists the baths for an afternoon after a class, and 3 days in Marrakech builds days round the sights.
Common questions
How much is a cooking class in Marrakech?
Amal's Targa Center charges 400 MAD (about £31) a head for tajines and 500 MAD (about £38) for couscous or pastilla. Lalla Zehra's farmhouse charges 600 MAD (about £46). On GetYourGuide classes run from £15.83 in a local home to £47.09 with a market visit, and the most-reviewed, with a market visit, is £27.70 to £31.65.
Which Marrakech cooking class has the most reviews?
The Traditional Moroccan Cooking Class & Food Market, with 2,752 reviews and 4.8 stars on GetYourGuide, from £27.70 for 2½ to 3 hours. The Moroccan Cooking Class with Pick-up has 2,515 reviews and 4.6 stars, and the 4-hour small-group class with a local chef has 1,953 reviews and 5.0 stars.
Is there a vegetarian or vegan cooking class in Marrakech?
Yes. GetYourGuide lists a 4-hour Moroccan Cooking Class for vegetarians and vegans in a chef's private home from £21.37, with 234 reviews and 4.8 stars. Cookin' Marrakech says vegetarian and vegan options are available, and Lalla Zehra lets you choose a vegetarian tagine.
Do Marrakech cooking classes include a market visit?
Some. The Traditional Moroccan Cooking Class & Food Market, Cookin' Marrakech and Flavours of Marrakech include one. Amal's class runs from 09:30 to 13:00 in its Targa Center kitchen, with a tea ceremony and the meal you cook.
Can I take a cooking class during Ramadan?
Cookin' Marrakech says it is open during Ramadan. Amal's Targa Center opens for a ftour, the evening meal that ends the fast, in its garden in the holy month, and a waitlist is open.
