EPCOT'S Morocco Pavilion reopens the Tangierine Café and Restaurant Marrakesh

Jul 15, 2021 in "Epcot International Food and Wine Festival"

Forum Forums Tweet Share Tweet Share

Gallery / 16 Photos
Tangerine Café and Restaurant Marakesh reopening July 15 2021

See all 16

Posted: Thursday July 15, 2021 11:06am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The Morocco Pavilion at EPCOT is back, with two of its long-shuttered locations reopened as part of the 2021 EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival.

Tangerine Café and Restaurant Marakesh reopening July 15 2021

Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina, the pavilion's original quick service location, serves a variety of small plates as one of the Global Marketplace kiosks.

Tangerine Café and Restaurant Marakesh reopening July 15 2021

Seating is available both indoors and outdoors at the restaurant and in the recently refreshed central courtyard.

Tangerine Café and Restaurant Marakesh reopening July 15 2021

Restaurant Marrakesh, the pavilion's original table service restaurant, serves as an indoor space to eat and relax but is not directly serving any food.

Tangerine Café and Restaurant Marakesh reopening July 15 2021

The original Tangierine Cafe closed in October 2020 as the pavilion's third-party operator struggled in the wake of the COVID shutdown. Disney has since taken over operations of the Morocco Pavilion and is making a series of improvements.

Click the gallery for more pictures of the Morocco Pavilion reopening.

Discuss on the Forums

Get Walt Disney World News Delivered to Your Inbox

castlecake2.014 hours ago

While you’ll 99% of the time get a canned response, the email does get forwarded to the right people. It’s always worth writing GR. Guest.Services@disneyworld.com

Cmdr_Crimson17 hours ago

At least they are still respecting it's lighting feature during the nighttime shows right? Or did they give up on that too? Incase no on knew of this.... https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/why-doesnt-moracco-or-norway-light-up-for-illuminations.187668/#:~:text=Master%20Yoda&text=EpcotGrl%20said%3A,in%20fact%2C%20be%20demeaning).

Jambo Dad21 hours ago

This is egregious. Disney dies a death by a thousand cuts.

LittleBuford1 day ago

Such tiles really do last centuries. At worst, they may have needed (careful) removal and reinstallation, with some filling in of losses, but they did not need replacing.

Incomudro1 day ago

More dumbing down and cost cutting by Disney.

Drdcm1 day ago

I know right? If I recall, the old tile had some damage and I guess I could believe it needed to be replaced. It’s just the replacement is low effort… tells me they don’t really care anymore

LittleBuford1 day ago

I’m still struggling to believe that Disney ripped them out so needlessly.

Drdcm1 day ago

I miss the old tiles

Disstevefan11 day ago

Thanks for your thoughtful post. It appears that my previous posts got deleted, but for the record and thanks to you, I will stop using the laugh reactions as I see it triggers folks. Its great of you to do some policing on the boards. For anyone reading this, feel free to use the laugh reactions to any or all of my posts, its ok with ME, any reaction is OK with me! I like to read when someone disagrees with me as I actually read the posts and and try to understand the other persons opinion. And to stay on topic, I do not like what Disney is doing with the Morocco pavilion.

LittleBuford1 day ago

I think the pavilion was perfectly lovely and engaging in its pre-COVID state when the restaurant and souk were running and before they ruined the tilework. Not every pavilion needs a ride to be entertaining.

Epcot82Guy1 day ago

Look up the psychological concept of "identification". To be fair, it's also the reason why many of us who dislike the trends of the parks get so upset (and sometimes vilifying), since the company is disregarding what we understood to be their guiding principles. (And I realize your statement may have been rhetorical. Just floating the idea generally.)

Epcot81Fan1 day ago

Supposed theme park "fans" actually defend Disney. That to me is the saddest part of this tragic downfall of this once respected brand. I get why a company wants to save pennies and treat their guests like idiot rubes. I just do not understand the rubes cheering them on and defending them.

aladdin20071 day ago

voice opinions to GR, however unfortunately a lot of the time now you get a college intern writing back who knows nothing and they probably just discard it. But good to do anyway.

trainplane31 day ago

This wasn't a swing and a miss. There wasn't even a player or a bat. It was the afterhours janitor that threw the ball for fun in a random direction then went on about their business cleaning the area. It contrasts so hard with the original tile work it isn't funny.