Le Pépère is the closest thing Gauthier has to a purpose-built football room. It opened in July 2025 on rue Franche Comté, hung eight large screens, and arranged the rest of the menu around them.
Most Casablanca venues treat a televised match as wallpaper. Le Pépère inverts the order. The screens come first, the tapas and grill come second, and the room fills an hour before kickoff rather than after dinner.
H24info covered the opening as a "restaurant branché foot" in Gauthier, the trendy office and embassy quarter where the city's licensed bars cluster (h24info.ma, July 2025). That framing is accurate. The dark wood and banquette seating read like a brasserie, but the sightlines give the game away: every table and every bar stool faces a screen.
The eight screens run major fixtures across the week, with Champions League midweeks and weekend league football as the anchors. When Morocco plays, the room turns into a single shouting section. Shoelifer named Le Pépère among its Casablanca spots for following the national team, which is the company this place keeps.
Order from the charcoal grill, which is the kitchen's real strength, and build a table of tapas to share while the match runs. The grilled skewers and brochettes travel well across a long sitting, and the plates are sized for a group rather than a solo diner. Order in rounds so the table keeps eating through both halves rather than clearing before kickoff. Drinks circulate fast on match nights, so a draught beer is the safe call over anything that needs building.
The crowd is young, local and football-literate, with a steady core of Gauthier regulars and a thinner layer of visitors who found the screens. Service moves quickly between courses on a normal night and slows, predictably, when a marquee fixture packs every seat. Arriving early is the difference between a sightline and a standing spot at the back.
Best time to go is a Champions League midweek or a Morocco international, an hour before kickoff to claim a table with a clear screen. A quiet weekday lunch is pleasant and the grill is still good, but it misses the register that makes this room worth the trip. Le Pépère is built for a crowd and a fixture, not for a quiet drink.
The location helps. Gauthier is the most walkable licensed district in Casablanca, dense with offices, embassies and mid-range hotels, which feeds Le Pépère a mixed international trade most rooms in the city never see. The opening drew quick coverage because a dedicated sports room is still rare here, and premiumtravelnews framed it as a convivial addition to the quarter rather than another late-night lounge (premiumtravelnews.com, 2025).
What regulars flag most is the atmosphere on the biggest nights, when the eight screens and a full room produce the kind of noise the city's hotel bars never reach. The recurring caution is capacity, since a major fixture fills the place and slows the bar, so a group should plan to arrive together rather than drift in at kickoff.
Le Pépère suits football fans who want the match as the main event, groups who want to share a grill across ninety minutes, and anyone staying in Gauthier who would rather walk than taxi. For another screen-first night nearby, pair it with The Irish Pub 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.
