The baby is seven days old and the house has not been quiet since Monday. Neighbours drop in, aunts arrive with their arms full, the phone rings constantly, and all of these people still need feeding. The new mother is barely back on her feet, and the grandmother has already announced that she will handle the rfissa herself — nobody dares tell her she will be standing over the pot until two in the morning. Those are exactly the days when sboue and aqiqa meal catering in Agadir takes the cooking off the family's hands.
At Madina in Haut Founty we prepare these family meals and deliver them ready to serve. Our kitchen runs every day from 8am to midnight, with more than 130 Moroccan and Italian dishes, all of it halal. We are not an events company and we have no function hall: we are a restaurant, with a real kitchen and real chefs, that cooks in quantity and brings the food to wherever the family is gathering. On the day of a sboue — the seventh-day celebration where the baby is named — that is precisely what you need.
What tradition puts on the table
A sboue table changes very little from one house to the next, and that is the point: guests know exactly what they are coming back to. We keep to it, then adjust depending on how many people you expect and what time you plan to serve.
- Rfissa, the sboue dish above all others: shredded msemen, lentils, tender chicken and that fenugreek broth whose smell fills the whole house
- Seffa, fine and sweet, with cinnamon and almonds, for the note of sweetness a birth calls for
- A slow-cooked tajine or grills, for the guests who turn up later in the day
- A spread of Moroccan salads to open the table, the way it is done at home
- Moroccan pastries and mint tea, in quantity, because the visits do not stop after lunch
Everything is halal and there is no alcohol on our premises. For a religious family occasion, that question never has to be asked, not by you and not by your most careful guests.
Why rfissa, specifically
It is no accident that this is the dish that comes back at every sboue. The fenugreek, the warmth of the broth, the long-simmered chicken: rfissa has always been the dish made for a new mother, the one that puts her back on her feet. Everyone else benefits, but it is hers first.
It is also a demanding dish: the msemen worked by hand, the broth built slowly, the lentils soft without collapsing. We cook rfissa and seffa all year round, and that is what lets us produce them in large quantities without either one losing anything. What arrives at your house is the same dish we serve in the dining room, plated up for twenty, forty or more.
Delivered hot, ready to serve
Everything is cooked in our kitchen and arrives ready to serve: nothing to reheat, nothing to plate, no improvising while the living room fills up.
We bring the hot-hold equipment, so the last guest's rfissa is as good as the first one's — and on the day of a sboue, people never all arrive together. Our staff can stay on site to handle the service, which saves your cousins from spending the afternoon shuttling between the kitchen and the sitting room. Disposable plates and cutlery can be included too, so that when the evening ends nobody is facing a mountain of washing up.
Tea and pastries, from morning to night
A sboue is never a single sitting: people come in waves, from mid-morning until late in the evening, and each of them should find something waiting. So be generous with the pastries and sweet things: cornes de gazelle, honey briouates, dried fruit and nuts, cakes to share, alongside the mint tea that greets every new arrival.
If the sboue falls on a Friday, many families switch to couscous — partly out of habit, partly because it gathers everyone around one dish. We handle couscous orders for a group as well, and there is nothing to stop you serving couscous at midday and rfissa in the evening. The rest of our Moroccan menu stays open to you if you want to round the table out.
Where we deliver
We deliver across Agadir and the nearby coast: Haut Founty, Founty, Talborjt, Cité Dakhla, Hay Mohammadi and the whole Agadir Bay area, plus Inezgane and Dcheira. Heading up the coast, we go as far as Aourir, Tamraght and Taghazout. If the family is gathering at the grandparents' place rather than yours, just tell us: it is the delivery address that matters.
And if you would rather receive everyone at the restaurant than at home, our private mezzanine seats up to 20 and our ground-floor room takes larger groups.
Everything is quoted individually, because no two sboue are alike: guests, timing, place and dishes change with every family. Tell us the date, the address, how many of you there will be and what you would like to serve, and we will come back with a clear proposal. WhatsApp is easiest: message us on +212 5283-81269, or email contact@madinaagadir.com. You can also browse our menu of more than 130 dishes, then fill in the request a quote form. You look after the baby and the guests — the cooking is our part.