The Irish Pub is the rare Casablanca address that treats a televised match as the main event rather than background noise. It sits beside the East West Hotel on Avenue Hassan Souktani, and on a Champions League night it draws the most international room in Gauthier.
Drinking in Casablanca runs on geography. Alcohol is legal in Morocco but sold mostly inside hotels and a short roster of licensed bars across Gauthier, the Centre-ville and the Corniche. The Irish Pub clears that bar twice over: it holds a full licence and it leans into sport, which most licensed rooms in the city treat as an afterthought.
The room reads like an Irish pub anywhere, ported to North Africa. Dark wood, a long counter, framed prints, and screens angled so the bar and the tables both get a view. VisitCasablanca lists it as a fixture for live music and sport, screening football, rugby, American football, tennis and golf across the week (visitcasablanca.ma). A connecting door links the pub to the East West Hotel next door, so hotel guests fold into the crowd after dinner.
Order a pint of draught lager, the most reliable pour on the list and the reason most regulars are here. The kitchen is the surprise: reviewers on Tripadvisor single out the smoked wings and the hand-cut fries, which travel better than most pub food in the city. Skip the cocktails, which are not the point in a room built for beer and a match.
The crowd skews European and mixed: expats, visiting football fans, hotel guests and a steady core of Casablanca regulars who treat the place as a clubhouse. Service draws consistent praise across guides, and the welcome is the reason first-timers come back. The energy climbs an hour before a major kickoff, so arriving early matters when a marquee fixture is on.
Best time to go is a European match night, ideally a Champions League midweek or a weekend Premier League slot, an hour before kickoff to claim a seat with sightlines. A quiet Tuesday is pleasant but misses the room's register; this is a place that comes alive around a fixture, not a nightcap stop.
The location does much of the work. Gauthier is the city's most walkable licensed district, dense with embassies, offices and mid-range hotels, which feeds the pub a steady international trade that most Casablanca rooms never see. Wanderlog and ArrivalGuides both frame it as a gathering point for that crowd, a place where the welcome and the European outlook matter as much as the beer list. The connecting door to the East West Hotel means the room rarely empties out, since guests drift in for a nightcap after the dining room closes, and the staff carry the same reputation for warmth across both sides.
What regulars flag most is the consistency. The kitchen holds its standard on the wings and fries, the draught stays cold, and the screens are reliably tuned to whatever European fixture matters that week. The recurring caution is volume on the biggest nights, when a marquee match can fill every seat and slow the bar, so a group should plan to arrive together and early rather than drift in at kickoff.
The Irish Pub suits travellers who want a familiar pub format with a working soundtrack of commentary, football fans hunting a screen in a city that hides them, and anyone staying in Gauthier who would rather walk than taxi. For a screen-first night elsewhere in the city, pair it with Tiger House in Maarif or the football-friendly tables at La Bodega de Casablanca. It is one entry in our guide to the best sports bars in Casablanca, part of the wider Casablanca bar guide.
