Currently on our radar of exciting pop-ups is Chef Akrame Benallal’s world-famous Paris restaurant, the Michelin-starred Shirvan Café Metisse, that has ‘arrived’ at Mandarin Oriental Marrakech. Designed as a ‘modern refuge with Berber and Andalusian Arab influences’, the restaurant brings together the aromas of the Orient, Europe and Asia, with the heady scents of the nearby Medina. Like an invitation to a gastronomic world tour, Chef Benallal turns textures and tastes of traditional Moroccan food on their head, with subtle infusions of the West and Asiatic cuisine to ingenious effect.
Like an invitation to a gastronomic world tour, Chef Benallal turns textures and tastes of traditional Moroccan food on their head, with subtle infusions of the West and Asiatic cuisine to ingenious effect.