Welcome to Cafe Clock

28/02/2010
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Cafe Clock

Café Clock has hands ticking rhythms to multiplying metronomes. The Clock Crew are behind the mechanics and after restoring the 250 year old courtyard house they have brought to Fez a cultural zone that we are all desperate to set our watches to. Musicians, thinkers, performers, lovers, restorers, teachers, travellers national international are walking onto our zellij carpet and playing out their tempos. It’s not just about the conversation piece camel burger or Tariq’s Taza style cheesecake that gets you (re)returning to Café Clock (but quite easily could be); it’s perching on revamped chairs picked up in junk souqs, it’s free wi-fi, it’s listening to Moroccan hip hop followed by belly dancing grooves, it’s swapping numbers with your neighbouring coffee drinker as you’re a lute player and he’s a djembe drummer and let’s jam sometime. The library, the terrace, the bar, the red room, the courtyard, the balcony – Café Clock oozes spaces to retreat, meet, mingle, dance, romanticise in. We are open every day of the week . Breakfast is served daily from 9am, last orders for dinner by 10:00pm (groups above 6 please reserve in advance). We love seasonal, we love local, we love traditional. We use what excites us from the neighbouring markets.

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And there’s more. We’re ringing all sorts of bells about our growing culture program. More than a coffeehouse, Clock Culture commissions and exhibits visual art, holds rooftop Sunday sunset concerts, runs henna workshops, belly dancing classes, cooking workshops and calligraphy courses. Bursting with ideas? Come on over for a coffee and lets chat.

Find us just 200m down from Bab Boujloud gate. Immediately after the display of dissections in the butchers’ guzzar on Talaa Kabira where on the right the 14th century Bouanania Medersa stands proud, up on the left are the restored remains of the clypsydra, Morocco’s only water clock. Below is slimline Derb el Magana, where, deep inside Café Clock nestles herself from the chaos.

Café Clock is a welcomed pause from the play inside Fez’s medieval capsule. Come breathe your life into the walls and let our cedar beams oil themselves with your histories.

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12 Responses to Welcome to Cafe Clock

  1. john mccredie on 05/07/2010 at 17:03

    what a good vibe youve vibed all the way over to here on the west coast of canada…

    i may be going to morocco in oct. if so i shall come to your coffee shop and find my rhythm and blend with a shared rhythm there . .

    john

  2. liesbethVG on 27/09/2010 at 17:57

    I’ve recently been to cafe clock and I can tell you that Cafe Clock was our safe place in the midst of the medina.
    Good service, friendly people,lovely building,multicultural music(adele,louise armstrong,nina simone,billie holliday and all sorts of Moroccan music we did not know),customers from every corner of the world and the best riccoto pancakes with warm banana I have ever eaten!!!

    Definetly worth a visit.
    Greatings from Belgium.

  3. admin on 06/10/2010 at 10:48

    Thanks for your lovely comments, we are happy to take care of our kind clients.

    Café Clock Team

  4. lulu on 07/10/2010 at 07:22

    very friendly people nice place good music alllllll is really good but the food “its good” but need to be authentic the food in cafe clock for tourist defently i will come again and again but for sup of coffee or juice thank for everybody you all so kind and nice
    lulu

  5. Vago on 17/11/2010 at 08:41

    Hi!
    Congratulations! Your blog has been nominated for the Best of Morocco Blogs 2011! Kindly send an email to vago@vagobond.com to receive your nomination badge code.

  6. Karim Lamrani on 24/12/2010 at 11:45

    I loved so much your Clock cafe a good and beautiful place to visit for lunch or a quick coffee.

    I was born in Fes and studied not far from the clock cafe, now I live in Asia but my heart is always in Fes.

    I highly recomand the place.

    Love and Peace

  7. Ghadiza Aguezoum on 18/02/2011 at 18:12

    I am visiting Fes Insallah at the end of September 2011; can’t wait to visit Clock Café if I read all of this!!!
    Dying with impatience!!!

  8. admin on 21/02/2011 at 12:07

    you are welcome to Cafe Clock, and we look forward to seeing you

  9. Adam on 28/04/2011 at 04:02

    Hello all:

    I grew up next to cafe clock, also called Bouanania. It is beautiful there. I miss it very much. Don’t forget to visit the Olives souk (market). The meat market and the Tal3aa is awesome as well. Have fun. :)

    Adam

  10. khalid on 01/05/2011 at 09:20

    Thanks for the comment Adam. We are very happy to hear from you. you are very welcome at Cafe Clock.

    Cafe clock Team

  11. MªLuisa Esteve gutierrez on 21/12/2011 at 12:16

    Me encanta Fez, soy española y enamorada de esa ciudad, amigos me hablaron de vosotros, pero no pude visitaros cuando estuve alli, no tenia los datos para poder encontraros, ahora los tengo y prometo visitaros cuando vuelva a la ciudad. enhorabuena por vuestro trabajo ..un beso desde España…MªLuisa

  12. jalal on 30/12/2011 at 11:57

    ana f ma ville fes w 3emri jite lhad restaurant ..ta jit hier m3a mes amis vraiment super é service kane hyper-v les ..prix kano f lmostawa..tbarkellah 3likom w kaneftakhro b notre café restaurant “clock” ..:D

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