BrassaRia bills itself as the first gastropub in Casablanca, and the claim holds up. It pairs a serious beer and wine list with tapas and grill plates in Maarif, and on match nights the screens turn it into one of the district's most reliable football rooms.
Maarif is the commercial heart of Casablanca, dense with shops, offices and apartment blocks, and it sits close to the Stade Larbi Zaouli. That proximity matters. BrassaRia draws a football-literate local crowd who treat the place as a clubhouse on fixture nights rather than a one-off.
The room reads as a contemporary brasserie with Spanish accents, chic but relaxed, built for a long sitting rather than a quick stop. Tripadvisor reviewers single out the gastropub framing and the breadth of the beer and wine list, which is wider than most licensed rooms in the city manage (Tripadvisor). The layout gives the bar and the tables a clear line to the screens, which is the detail that earns it a place on this list.
Order a draught beer, the natural choice in a room that takes its taps seriously, and build a table of tapas and shared grill plates to run across a match. The kitchen leans toward plates designed for the middle of a table, which suits a group settling in for ninety minutes. The wine list is the backup option for anyone who would rather not drink beer through a fixture. The Spanish lean shows in the small plates, so order a few to anchor the table rather than a single main. Service is happy to pace the food across the match, which keeps the table eating from kickoff to the final whistle.
The crowd is mixed and local, with Maarif regulars, office groups after work, and football fans who came for the screens. Reviewers describe the room as animated on match evenings, with the configuration giving good sightlines from both the tables and the bar. That is the register to expect: busy, social and focused on the game when one is on.
Best time to go is a weekend league night or a Champions League midweek, arriving before kickoff to claim a table with a clear view. A weekday evening is quieter and the food still rewards a visit, but the room is at its best with a full house and a fixture on the screens.
The gastropub positioning is the differentiator. Casablanca has hotel bars and Irish pubs, but a room that treats the beer list and the kitchen with equal care, then angles its screens for football, is rarer than it sounds. BrassaRia threads that needle, which is why it turns up in both restaurant guides and football-viewing roundups for the city.
What regulars flag most is consistency across the beer list and the kitchen, the sense that the place delivers on both fronts rather than treating one as filler. The recurring caution is volume on the biggest nights, when a marquee fixture fills the room and slows the bar, so a group should plan to arrive together and early.
BrassaRia suits beer drinkers who want a proper list with their football, groups looking for a Maarif room that takes its kitchen seriously, and anyone who wants screens without an Irish-pub theme. For another screen-first night in the city, pair it with Le Pépère in Gauthier or the match tables at Tiger House in Maarif. It is one entry in our guide to the best sports bars in Casablanca, part of the wider Casablanca bar guide.
