Café Clock has hands ticking rhythms to multiplying metronomes. Mike Richardson’s the man behind Clock’s mechanics and after a year of restoring the 250 year old courtyard house he’s brought to Fez a cultural zone that we are all desperate to set our watches to. Entrepreneurs, thinkers, performers, 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.

CLOCK CULTURE

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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