Tangier Night Food Tour - the Gate of Africa After Dark

Tangier, perched at the tip of Africa looking across the strait to Spain, has always been a nocturnal, cosmopolitan city, and its food is at its best after dark. A night food tour follows the evening buzz from the Grand Socco down into the medina and the famous cafes, tasting the Spanish-Moroccan mix that makes the city's table unlike anywhere else in Morocco.

You eat the way Tangier does at night: fresh seafood from the strait - fried fish, grilled prawns, calamari in the Spanish-influenced style the city loves - alongside Moroccan street classics like brochettes, msemen and harira. The tour takes in the celebrated Tangier pastries, a legacy of both Andalusia and the international era, and pauses at one of the legendary cafes - the city has a deep cafe culture - for mint tea and people-watching. The lamp-lit lanes of the medina above the port add the atmosphere.

Your guide threads the city's remarkable history through the food - Berber, Andalusian, Jewish, Spanish and the freewheeling International Zone years - so you taste how a century of crossing cultures shaped the table. The night lends the port city a particular glamour and ease. Bring small cash and an appetite, and let the guide lead you between the seafood counters, the pastry shops and the grand old cafes.