Agafay

The Agafay plateau, forty minutes from Marrakech

The Agafay is a rocky desert plateau forty minutes south of Marrakech, where the city ends and the pre-Saharan stone begins. No neighbours, no other tables, no ambient noise. The silence after sunset is absolute. The Milky Way is visible on clear nights without optical aid.

The Long Table sets its longest tables in Agafay. The plateau absorbs large groups without losing intimacy. A full mechoui is slow-roasted on embers from the afternoon. Gnaoua musicians arrive with the dark. Stargazing follows the fire.

The evening follows the light. Private transfers leave Marrakech so that the group reaches the plateau before sunset, when the pale stone turns gold and the Atlas stands out on the horizon. The site is privatised: one group, one table, nothing else in sight. Drinks are served as the sun goes down, then dinner at the long table, the mechoui carved from the embers that have been burning since the afternoon. The musicians arrive with the dark, the fire takes over from the daylight, and the night ends under the stars before the transfers return the group to the city.

Agafay is a frequently requested Long Table setting, and it handles scale with ease. It suits a wedding dinner in the desert, a corporate seminar or incentive evening, a team-building day that ends at a long table, a gala dinner, a birthday that wants the sky as its ceiling, or a photo and film shoot that needs an empty horizon forty minutes from a hotel. The Agafay setting accommodates groups of thirty to three hundred, with the plateau able to take the longest tables we lay.

Private transfers from Marrakech are included in all Agafay evenings, as are the site, the table, the dinner and drinks, the fire, the musicians and the team. One proposal, no surprises. Send your date and your numbers through the request page and a first reply arrives within 24 hours, then a proposal within a few days of your brief.