Marrakech for digital nomads

Best cafes

Marrakech does not have a coffee culture so much as several overlapping ones, layered on top of each other like the city itself. Inside the medina, the cafe is a public room — a place to sit with a glass of mint tea, watch the square, and let an afternoon go. In Gueliz and Hivernage, the new-build avenues run on espresso and laptops, with international chains and concept stores selling a flat white that would not be out of place in Seoul or Melbourne. And on the back lanes off Rahba Kedima, a generation of younger owners has reclaimed old riads and fondouks as third spaces — Berber kitchens, rooftop terraces, social enterprises. The twelve below are picked across that whole spectrum: a global coffee chain with a polished Gueliz storefront, a medina institution overlooking Jemaa el-Fnaa, a women's-training cafe in the old town, and a handful of new-school spots most guidebooks have not yet caught up with. Hours, addresses and phone numbers are drawn from the OpenStreetMap record for each venue; the editorial judgement is mine.