Adjoining the restaurant « El Korsan » is the equally elegant and famed « El Erz » where International Cuisine is served in a dining room of exquisite architectural harmony.
In a forest of pillars, and arches, supporting a restrained Moroccan beamed ceiling, up to 180 guests may order from Tangiers's most extensive « a la carte » menu. Specialities include « Sole Waleska », « Chateaubriand », and « Poached Turbot ». The terrace of the dining rooms overlooks extensive gardens and commands views of both the medina (old city) of Tangier and the bay. Through palm fond and scarlet hibiscus blooms the coast of Spain, and the towering Rock of Gibraltar may be glimpsed. A restaurant of exceptional elegance and dignity the « El Erz » is the « social heart » of Tangier. Generations of Tangerois and the « jet set » have long claimed it as their « preferred » meeting place in the « White City ». The El Minzah is fortunate in being able to honestly boast that its Chefs are equally at home in producing the finest « International Cuisine » and the most refined examples of Morocco's ancient and deservedly famous national dishes.
Although International or Moroccan dishes may be ordered in either the former, decorated in a purely Moorish style, and seating up to 120 dinners, is the preferred venue for clients wishing to savour the delicate flavours of our famed national cuisine.
Moroccan female Chefs carefully prepare harira, cous cous, tagines or other succulent dishes.
Dinner in the « El Korsan » is accompanied, most nights, by a cabaret of Moroccan dance and music. A talented professional dancer, veiled in transparent green chiffon, weaves her way between performing the age old dances of Arabia.
From Caid's Piano Bar one gains entrance to the garden terrace and swimming pool (built in 1962, it replaced an earlier beach club once owned by the hotel and situated on the corniche). Here, during good weather, guests may lunch at the « Misbah Club » serving themselves from an extensive and delicious buffet, or order from the « a la carte » menu.
Up to seventy clients may dine here at any one time, by the pool, and beneath parasols shading them from the sun. Many linger over aperitifs, or liquors, fine champagnes, and exceptional cognacs and watch the swallows bounce-bathe in the swimming pool.
Just off the Patio, on the right-hand side of the staircase, is the « Wine Bar », an intimate restaurant much favoured by established clientele of the hotel.
Alternatively they may wish to study the many turn of the century and « Internationl Period » photographs of Tangier. In a real sense the walls of the Wine Bar are a mini-museum to Tangiers’s famed past and equally fascinating present.
A dining room of singular charm, discrete and intimate, the « Wine Bar » has the atmosphere of a private dining room in a great Belle Époque hotel. It is unique in Tangier. Another jewel in the El Minzah's crown.
