Leone Marrakech | Hivernage Deep-House Club

Leone, sometimes listed in full as Leone Discoteca, is one of the newer clubs to open in Hivernage, the luxury-hotel strip on the Gueliz edge where most of the city's late nights happen. It sits in Villa Yvette, on the angle of Avenue Ibn Khattib and Rue Abdelaziz Ettaalibi, a short taxi from the medina and walking distance from a cluster of other Hivernage rooms.

The pitch is intimacy over scale. This is a villa-style deep-house room, not a big lounge or a cabaret, and its signature move is a DJ booth set in the middle of the crowd instead of up on a stage. The tagline the venue runs with is "Deep House & Good Vibes," and that about covers it.

The Vibe

The whole place is built around the central DJ booth. Putting the decks in the middle of the floor, with the crowd around them, is the design decision Leone leans on hardest, and a stage-and-barrier layout never gives you that. You stand close to the music and to whoever is playing it, which suits a deep-house night far better than a cavernous main room.

The crowd is chic and Parisian-leaning, a cosmopolitan mix of locals, travelers and expats who have dressed for the occasion. The energy is refined but it still moves, more late-night house party in a smart villa than warehouse rave. It is an 18-plus room. Think compact and stylish, not a mega-club, and the villa format makes sense.

The Menu

Leone is a club, so the carte downstairs is a drinks list, not a kitchen. The official site points to a bottle and drinks menu without printing out named cocktails, and no specific bottles or cocktail prices are published anywhere we found, so treat any figure as unverified and confirm at the bar. For a group, a table built around a bottle is the usual move; otherwise a drink at the bar keeps the budget in check. Expect Hivernage club pricing either way.

The food half lives next door. Leone is the late-night extension of its sister restaurant NOTO Marrakech, an Italian kitchen run by Sardinian chef Emilio Giagnoni, and the intended flow is dinner first, club after. NOTO's plates include cacio e pepe, tagliolini al tartufo nero, saffron risotto with red prawns, lamb chops and a tiramisu to finish, with mains running roughly 270 to 620 MAD. Eat there, then carry the night over to Leone when the kitchen winds down. That dinner-to-dancefloor pairing is how the venue is designed to be used.

The Music

Deep house is the core. Leone programs deep-house and electronic sets played by a rotation of French and international DJs, and the central-booth layout puts you right in it. The "Deep House & Good Vibes" line genuinely describes the sound: groove-led, late-night house rather than big-room EDM or the soul-and-hip-hop mix you get at some of the other Hivernage clubs.

Because it is a newer room with a guest rotation, the lineup shifts week to week, so check what is billed on the Instagram before you pick a date if a particular DJ matters to you. The broad read holds regardless: deep house for a dressed-up crowd in a small room, with Friday and Saturday the fullest.

Prices & Entry

Treat all of these as approximate. Leone publishes very little on price, so the figures below lean on Clubbable and general Hivernage norms rather than an official Leone rate card, and they move with the night and the season.

• Entry fee: not published for Leone specifically, so this is unverified. Hivernage clubs generally run somewhere around 200 to 300 MAD on the door, and a table booking often folds the entry in.
• Drinks: no published cocktail prices for Leone. The district norm is roughly 100 to 180 MAD a drink, so budget loosely and ask at the bar.
• Table or bottle minimum: reported from around 4,000 MAD, in line with Hivernage tables that sit roughly 2,500 to 5,000 MAD depending on position and night.

In a small villa room, a table is as much about a guaranteed spot as the bottle, which is why most groups reserve one for a busy weekend. Because every figure above is approximate and the entry and drink numbers are unverified for Leone, confirm the current door price and table minimum with the venue or your concierge before you commit.

When to Go

Leone runs Thursday to Saturday and is closed Sunday through Wednesday, so plan around the back half of the week. Thursday and Friday are reported open around 10:00 PM to 4:00 AM, with Saturday running later to roughly 5:00 AM. One booking widget showed earlier slots in the 12:00 to 3:30 AM range, so read the exact hours as approximate and check the current calendar if you are timing a particular night.

Friday and Saturday are the peak nights, when the room fills and the floor gets going properly. As with every club in this city, nothing starts early, and the dinner-then-club rhythm with NOTO pushes the real arrival later still. A midnight-onward arrival times it best, especially on a weekend.

How to Book

Booking runs through Leone directly. The reservation form on leone-discoteca.com is the cleanest route, with an email line at reservation-leone@moma-marrac.com if you would rather write. Two phone numbers turn up in listings, +212 663 46 25 56 on the official site and +212 698 16 43 31 also published and usable on WhatsApp, so start with the official line if one does not connect. Instagram @leone.discoteca, along with the Facebook page, is the most reliable place to see what is billed for a given night.

Because it is a small villa room that fills on weekends, a guaranteed spot is worth having, especially if you want the table waiting when you come over from dinner at NOTO. The Marrakech Society handles exactly this for members, guest list and tables at Leone and across Hivernage, so you land on the right night with a spot held rather than gambling at the door. If you want it sorted before you arrive, apply for membership and let the concierge line it up.

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What to Know

Dress the part. The code here is smart and elegant, and the venue reserves the right of admission, so leave the shorts, sandals and sportswear at the hotel. The crowd skews Parisian and dressed-up, and the door reflects that.

Getting there is easy. Leone sits in Villa Yvette on the angle of Avenue Ibn Khattib and Rue Abdelaziz Ettaalibi in Hivernage, a short taxi from the medina, so arrange a car for the way back given the late finish. Two things to be straight about. This is a new venue without much of a review trail yet (ratings sit around 4.2 to 4.5 across listings, on low volume), and its hours, prices and entry charge either vary by source or go unpublished, so verify the specifics directly before you plan. The short version: it is a compact, dressy deep-house room where the night builds late, and it works best as the second act after dinner at NOTO. Plan for that and Leone gives you one of Hivernage's more intimate late nights.