Instants Magiques Traiteur

the profile

Instants Magiques has run luxury events in Marrakech since 2003, and its catering is one arm of that house, not a standalone kitchen you hire off a price list. The company is run by Olivier Canal Brunet and Florence Marty, and its corporate client list, Dior, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Chaumet, Nespresso, and Sofitel, tells you the register it works in. For a wedding, the catering side covers refined Moroccan cuisine and international gastronomy, and it is one of the few teams in the city that also arranges kosher catering through Beth Din certified partners. That last point matters. Kosher service is genuinely hard to find in Marrakech, and for couples who need it, this is a real reason to call them. The format is flexible and that is the point. They plate sit-down dinners, lay out buffets, run cocktail receptions, and do garden picnics, and they actively encourage couples to mix those formats rather than pick just one. A common setup they suggest is a cocktail of canapes, then a served meal at the table, then a dessert buffet to finish. On the sweet side they build dessert tables, candy bars, and wedding cakes in current styles, macaron towers and naked cakes among them. Before you commit they recommend a proper tasting so you judge the food, the plating, and the service quality with your own eyes, which is exactly the right instinct and one I always push couples toward. In our directory the range sits at roughly 60 to 130 per guest, which is mid to upper for Marrakech wedding catering, and the 7.7 rating is fair. It is a good, reliable, high-end kitchen attached to a serious event house, not the single most-talked-about caterer in the city, and priced accordingly. Booking is not a quick online order. You go through the agency, brief them on your day, sit a tasting, and build the menu from there, so start early, because a house that also runs full weddings fills its best dates well ahead. Now the honest part, and there are two things to weigh. First, this is the catering arm of a full luxury planning house, so it is built around couples who want a premium, hands-held operation, not around the couple hunting the leanest per-head price. If budget is your first priority, a dedicated standalone caterer will usually come in lower. Second, and I will be direct because couples have told me this, communication can be slow. When you are planning from abroad, a slow reply is not a small thing, it is the difference between a calm month and an anxious one, so build in buffer and confirm every detail in writing. There is one more thing to keep straight. Instants Magiques also operates as a wedding planner in Marrakech, and we list that side separately. If you are hiring them purely to feed your guests, say so plainly and get a catering-only quote, because their planning fees, a retainer plus a percentage of the wedding, are a different product entirely, and you do not want to pay planner fees for a caterer's job. Before you sign, pin down the specifics. Confirm the exact menu and the per-guest price in writing after the tasting, not before. If you need kosher, get the Beth Din certification confirmed in writing and check which partner kitchen actually cooks it. Ask how service works at your specific venue, how many staff come, and whether they bring a full mobile kitchen, because many Marrakech villas and gardens have no professional kitchen on site and that gap is where caterers stumble. Clarify alcohol service, dietary needs, and the final headcount deadline. Do that, and you get polished, flexible, genuinely high-end catering with rare kosher capability, from a house that has been doing this in Marrakech for more than 20 years.