El Toro — grill and seafood restaurant on the seafront in Agadir, Morocco
The best in Agadir
Grill & seafood
Dry-aged beef seared over live fire, paella cooked to order, six pages of wine. On the seafront in Agadir.
The best in Agadir
Grill & seafood
Dry-aged beef seared over live fire, paella cooked to order, six pages of wine. On the seafront in Agadir.
El Toro cooks two things with the same attention: beef and the sea. The cuts are dry-aged before they meet the fire; the fish and shellfish arrive in the morning and leave as paella, a la plancha or from the oven.
Everything else — the low light, the violin on some evenings, a menu that runs to six pages — is built around those two. A lot of guests come back more than once in the same week, and that is the only number we watch.
Cuts aged twenty-one days, naturally, seared over fire and served with the garnish and sauce you pick. The fillet cuts with a spoon.
Rice cooked to order, the day’s fish, king prawns and lobster. Allow thirty minutes or so — that wait is exactly what you taste.
Six pages of wine, including a Moroccan selection you will rarely find this complete in town, a page of champagne and a reserve of classed growths.
Here is what our guests write on Google and Tripadvisor.
Public Google reviews, quoted in the language they were written in.
You see the name before you read it: a steel bull standing between the letters EL TORO above the bar. The same bull comes back small, printed on the napkins and the leather placemats.
The room follows from there — large black-and-white arena photographs printed floor to ceiling: the cape opening, the animal going past, the packed stands running as a frieze above the bottles, a torero in his suit of lights.
Underneath that Spain, the craft is Moroccan: carved wood panels — one of them the picador on horseback — pierced screens, tadelakt walls, brass lanterns and pendants holding the light low. Dark leather, white linen, one red rose per table, the glass cellar at the back of the room.
Then the bay windows open onto palms and the beach, and the terrace takes over under its string lights: Spain on one side, the Atlantic on the other, and the coals between the two.
The sea air reaches the table. It is the first thing you notice when you sit down outside, before the menu.
The breeze comes off the Atlantic, crosses the table and moves on. It is salty. It carries the smell of the coals before the smell of your plate, and that is about all there is to say about it: nothing has to be arranged, you only have to sit on the right side.
In the evening the air settles and the noise changes places: the dining room stays behind you, the palms move, and the sea is heard more than it is seen. We close late — there is no hurry between courses.
Book a table On the seafront →A few rare bottles from our cellar, photographed in the house. Scroll through them, or let them come to you.
Guests have written to say they were not given the same welcome as the table next to them. We read it. These are the four things you can hold us to, every service.
Moroccan, resident or visiting: same table, same menu, same greeting. Nobody is served after somebody else.
Anyone of legal drinking age orders whatever they want from the wine list. No bottle is held back for one table over another.
Menu prices are net, service included. A tip stays your decision, and it will never be asked for.
If something is missing or changes on the day — a lobster, a fish — you hear it before your order is taken, and you choose again.
A call or a WhatsApp message is enough — it is the same number. Give us the number of covers, the time, and whether you want a table by the windows or on the terrace.
On the seafront in Agadir. Book a table, then let the map guide you.
Front de mer, Agadir
Monday — Saturday · 12:00 — 02:00
(closing after midnight)
Sunday · 12:00 — 00:00
Eight short answers before you book. If your question is not here, message us on WhatsApp.
A WhatsApp message is enough: the WhatsApp button at the bottom of the screen opens the conversation. You can also fill in the form on this page — it writes the same message for you. Tell us how many covers, what time, and whether you would rather sit near the bay windows or on the terrace.
The restaurant is open every day from 12:00: until 02:00 Monday to Saturday, and until midnight on Sunday.
Yes. Prices are in dirhams, taxes included and service included. A tip stays your choice: it is never added to the bill and it will not be asked for.
The printed menu exists in French, English, Spanish and German, and it is published here in all four languages, dish by dish.
Yes. The cellar runs to six pages: Moroccan wines first, then wines of the world, a page of champagne and a reserve of classed growths. Anyone of legal drinking age orders whatever they want from that list.
About thirty minutes: the rice is cooked to order, never reheated. It is the dish that asks for the most patience, and that wait is what you taste on the plate. If you are in a hurry, order it as you sit down.
Yes, a children’s menu of two dishes: a cheeseburger, or penne bolognese. Both are on the menu.
There is a terrace as well as the dining room. Say so when you book if you would prefer it — same as for a table near the bay windows.
