Le 68 Bar à Vin is the smallest bet in Guéliz and one of the surest. A narrow French wine bar behind Carré Eden, it trades on a good list, a charcuterie board and a room cosy enough that booking ahead is the sensible move.
The address is 68 Rue de la Liberté, on a Guéliz strip where Marrakech keeps its licensed restaurants and bars. Morocco sells wine and beer mainly inside hotels and these modern-district addresses, so a genuine wine bar with a deep by-the-glass list is rarer than the cocktail terraces suggest. Tripadvisor reviewers describe Le 68 as a small room with French cooking and super-friendly service, open every night from 5pm to 2am.
The format is French to the core. Petit Futé lists it as a Guéliz address for French cuisine and wine, with boards of charcuterie and cheese, raclette and tartiflette in the cooler months, and plates that run from oysters and Serrano to boeuf bourguignon and entrecôte. It is a wine bar that feeds you properly rather than a snack stop, which is why a table here can easily become the whole evening.
Order by the glass first. Wine starts around 40 MAD a glass and 190 MAD a bottle, so a flight across a French red and a Moroccan Guerrouane is affordable and instructive. The charcuterie-and-cheese board is the obvious anchor; in winter the raclette is the order that justifies the trip. Beer is available for anyone who would rather a cold lager, but the wine list is the reason the room exists, so lean into it. Reservations by phone are the safest route on a Friday or Saturday, when the dozen tables turn over fast.
The street is central and walkable from most Guéliz hotels, a few minutes from Carré Eden and an easy petit-taxi from Hivernage. The catch is size: the room is genuinely small, and a walk-in on a weekend can mean standing or waiting, so a reservation is worth the message. The mood is conversation rather than scene, low-lit and unhurried, with the service doing a lot of the work.
The wine list is the real reason to plan around Le 68. It runs deeper into French regions than almost any other Guéliz address, and the by-the-glass selection rotates often enough that a return visit usually brings something new to try. The kitchen is built to match it rather than compete, so the boards and the heavier French plates are sized to share across a couple of glasses. Prices stay honest for the quality, which is part of why the room fills with residents as much as visitors. The trade-off is always space: a dozen tables, no terrace to speak of, and a weekend rush that rewards anyone who called ahead. Quieter weeknights are the connoisseur's slot, when the staff have time to talk through the list.
Best time to go is an early-to-mid evening on a weeknight, when the room is calm and the staff have time to steer the list, or a relaxed weekend dinner if a long table is the plan. Le 68 suits couples after a quiet glass, wine-minded travellers tired of cocktail terraces, and anyone who treats charcuterie as a meal. For a livelier follow-on, the rooftop at Kechmara or cocktails at Baromètre are minutes away. Find it in our guide to the best wine bars in Marrakech and the city's beer-and-bar map, part of the wider Marrakech bar guide and our editorial round-up of the city's best bars.
