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"The Best of Marrakech\nAD revisits Morocco's most stylish city and offers an insider's take on where to shop, eat, and stay now\nWhere to Stay\n\nLa Maison Arabe\n\nThis welcoming boutique hotel, located in the heart of the medina, was launched as a restaurant in 1946 by the legendary mother-daughter team of H\u00E9l\u00E8ne Sebillon and Suzy Larochette, \u00E9migr\u00E9s from France. Since 1996, it has been owned by Prince Fabrizio Ruspoli, who has transformed the six-riad complex into a cossetting hideaway with 26 chic rooms and suites outfitted with earth-tone textiles and hand-carved furniture. Rooms from $240; 1 Derb Assehb\u00E9, Bab Doukkala; 011-212-524-38-70-10; lamaisonarabe.com\nWhere to Stay\n\nLa Mamounia\n\nFrench interior designer Jacques Garcia sumptuously revamped this stalwart, which opened in the medina in 1923. Originally 50 rooms, it now features 209, many opulently decorated with walls of red tadelakt (polished plaster) and Venetian-style mirrors. The 32-acre grounds are landscaped with lush gardens. Keep your eyes peeled for celebrities. Rooms from $670; Avenue Bab Jdid; 011-212-524-38-86-00; mamounia.com\nWhere to Stay\n\nSelman Marrakech\n\nJacques Garcia's latest Marrakech project is this 15-acre extravaganza outside the city walls, for which he oversaw everything from the redbrick building to the plush decor. Fifty-six rooms and five riads are offered on the property, which includes a vast swimming pool and paddocks where the owners' Arabian Thoroughbreds are put through their paces. Also on the premises are a charming brasserie and a vaulted restaurant featuring Mediterranean cuisine\u2014plus the country's only Espace Vitalit\u00E9 Chenot biontology spa. Rooms from $530; KM 5, Route d'Amizmiz; 011-212-524-38-67-18; selman-marrakech.com\nWhere to Stay\n\nRoyal Mansour\n\nThis bewitchingly beautiful medina resort and its 53 individual villas were bankrolled by King Mohammed VI, who co-opted one of the medina's arched gates for the entrance. Designed by the French firm 3BIS, the property was created as a tribute to Moroccan style: Think elaborate plaster, exquisite mosaics, and flamboyant lighting. Recent guests have included style icon Lee Radziwill and fashion designer Ralph Rucci. Rooms from $2,000; Rue Abou Abbas El Sebti; 011-212-529-80-80-80; royalmansour.com\nWhere to Stay\n\nJnane Tamsna\n\nThis chic compound is located just outside the city in the fabled Palmeraie oasis. Meryanne Loum-Martin, a soign\u00E9, C\u00F4te d'Ivoire\u2013born designer, conceived the pan-African interiors, mixing furniture she created with Moroccan and Mauretanian carpets and objets d'art from Mali and Senegal. Jnane Tamsna's locavore menu stars homegrown produce cultivated by her American ethnobotanist husband, Gary J. Martin. Rooms from $306; Douar Abiad, Palmeraie; 011-212-524-32-84-84; jnanetamsna.com\nWhere to Eat\n\nBagatelle\n\nEstablished in 1949, during the French colonial period, this institution in the city's Gu\u00E9liz neighborhood vanished for a couple of years, when rising property values made it too tempting not to sell the valuable land beneath it. But the founder's grandson reopened the business last year, moving it into the ground floor of a nearby apartment building. All of its old-fashion charms have been reinstated, from the stained-glass ceiling that crowns the paneled main dining room to the grand grape pergola sheltering the terrace. The menu remains unchanged as well, offering French brasserie standards such as foie de veau persill\u00E9. 103 Rue de Yougoslavie; 011-212-524-43-02-74\nWhere to Eat\n\nLa Maison Arabe\n\nWay back when, the authors behind the Gault&amp;amp;Millau guide called La Maison Arabe, now a boutique hotel, \"the greatest restaurant in the world,\" which probably explains why Jacqueline Kennedy and Queen Ingrid of Denmark dined here. Its current owner, Prince Fabrizio Ruspoli, keeps the culinary faith, offering two terrific dining options on the premises: There's the traditional Moroccan Le Restaurant and the multi-ethnic Les Trois Saveurs (pictured), whose Asian, French, and Moroccan dishes can be served beneath romantic poolside colonnades. 1 Derb Assehb\u00E9, Bab Doukkala; 011-212-524-38-70-10; lamaisonarabe.com\nWhere to Eat\n\nLa Mamounia\n\nThis storied grand-dame medina hotel houses four restaurants: Le Pavillon de la Piscine, Le Marocain, Le Fran\u00E7ais, and L'Italien, the latter two by Michelin-starred chefs Jean-Pierre Vigato and Alfonso Iaccarino, respectively. For exceptional pasta dishes head to Iaccarino's L'Italien, a plum-hued paradise. And Sunday brunch at Le Pavillon de la Piscine, alongside the swimming pool, is extraordinary\u2014best followed by a post-prandial stroll through the more than 200-year-old gardens. (Pictured are the entrance to Le Marocain, left, and the terrace of Le Pavillon de la Piscine.) Avenue Bab Jdid; 011-212-524-38-86-00; mamounia.com\nWhere to Eat\n\nRoyal Mansour\n\nWith the only white-glove service in town, the Royal Mansour offers three exceptionally stylish restaurants. La Table, a terrace retreat near the pool, features a Mediterranean menu, while the two indoor locations\u2014La Grande Table Marocaine and La Grande Table Fran\u00E7aise (pictured)\u2014feature inventive takes on classic Moroccan and French cuisine by Yannick All\u00E9no, head chef of Paris's Restaurant Le Meurice and a recipient of three Michelin stars. Rue Abou Abbas El Sebti; 011-212-529-80-80-80; royalmansour.com\nWhere to Eat\n\nLe Tobsil\n\nA palace restaurant in the medina with a justly renowned menu of classic Moroccan cuisine, Le Tobsil is also a decorative-arts introduction into the lifestyle of long-ago pashas. Patchworks of Berber carpets are flung across its dining rooms and courtyard, and its plethora of glittering brass candelabra cast golden light into every corner. 22 Derb Moulay Abdellah ben Hessa\u00EFen; 011-212-524-44-40-52\nWhere to Shop\n\nDavid Bloch Gallery\n\nOn a quiet side street in Gu\u00E9liz, dealer David Bloch showcases powerful, energetic artworks by established and emerging Moroccan as well as American and European talents. 8 Bis Rue des Vieux Marrakchis; 011-212-524-45-75-95; davidblochgallery.com\nWhere to Shop\n\nMoor\n\nAcross the street from the Bloch gallery is this shop, where the specialties are filmy, resort-perfect blouses, tunics, and shifts in eye-popping patterns, plus exotic accents for the home such as globe-shaped light fixtures and vessels decorated with swirling calligraphy. The owners also operate Akbar Delights, a medina favorite for flamboyantly embroidered fashions and furnishings. 7 Rue des Vieux Marrakchis; 011-212-524-45-82-74; Akbar Delights, Place Bab Fteuh; 011-212-671-66-13-07; akbardelights.com\nWhere to Shop\n\nDada Home\n\nThis sunny, elegant boutique adjacent to Moor features a carefully edited array of evocative Orientalist antiques, 19th-century china, and vintage photographs. 9 Rue des Vieux Marrakchis; 011-212-524-42-32-25\nWhere to Shop\n\nYahya Cr\u00E9ation\n\nSome of the finest metalwork outside of Cairo can be found at the Gu\u00E9liz shop of London-born designer Yahya Rouach, who produces exquisite handmade light fixtures in sinous shapes. King Mohammed VI is a fan. 61 Rue de Yougoslavie, Passage Ghandouri, Shop 49\u201350; 011-212-524-42-27-76; yahyacreation.com\nWhere to Shop\n\nVilla M\n\nOwned by decorator J\u00E9r\u00F4me Vermelin, this furnishings mecca in Gu\u00E9liz is stocked with inlaid chairs, Art Deco artifacts, and jewels\u2014all housed in a mid-20th-century relic of Marrakech's French colonial days. 18 Rue Iman Malik; 011-212-546-92-06-89\nWhere to Shop\n\nAl Kawtar\n\nThis charitable organization, founded in 2006, offers embroidered clothing for children and adults, table linens, and more\u2014all created by Moroccan women with disabilities. Manhattan menswear guru Jay Kos was recently spotted at the organization's workshop and day-care center in the medina, ordering a custom-made shirt for his son. 57 Rue Laksour; 011-212-524-37-82-93; and 3 Derb Zaouia Laftihia; 011-212-524-38-56-95; alkawtar.org\nWhere to Shop\n\nMaraterre\n\nLocated in the city's Camp Ghoul area, this showroom for Mehdi Tajmouati's locally made hand-painted porcelain tableware is a host's delight. Numerous delectable patterns are available: The Grand D\u00E9cor service is Madame de Pompadour goes Arabic, while HLAL is dappled with stars and crescent moons. And Tajmouati will ship everything home for you. 22 R\u00E9sidence Belle Vue, Rue Sergent Levet, Camp Ghoul; 011-212-524-42-24-18; porcelaine-tajmouati.com\nWhere to Shop\n\n33 Rue Majorelle\n\nIf Colette is Europe's best concept store, 33 Rue Majorelle, owned by Monique Bresson and Yehia Abdelnour, is arguably the African equivalent. Located down the street from the Jardin Majorelle botanical park and museum in Gu\u00E9liz, the two-story shop\u2014part boutique, part art gallery, part caf\u00E9\u2014takes Maghrebi style standards and makes them mightily mod. Hence the store's motto: \"Shop differently.\" Among the covetable offerings made by inventive, mostly Moroccan talents are traditional woven-raffia slippers with a Coco Chanel vibe (thanks to a cap-toe design and a combination of black and cream fibers), luxurious scarves wrought in delectable sorbet shades, and glamorous hand-embroidered coats. 33 Rue Yves Saint Laurent; 011-212-524-31-41-95; 33ruemajorelle.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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