So Lounge Marrakech | Dinner, Cabaret & Late-Night Club

So Lounge is the dinner-show-into-club venue inside the Sofitel Marrakech Palais Impérial, set in the hotel gardens in Hivernage, the district where most of the city's bigger hotels and nightspots sit. It does the full arc of an evening under one roof: a sit-down dinner, a live cabaret that runs through the meal, and then a proper late-night club once the plates are cleared. You arrive at 8 and, if you pace yourself, you do not leave until 4.

It suits people who want one address to carry the whole night instead of taxiing between a restaurant and a club. Good for a first night in Marrakech, a group celebration, or a couple who want dinner with a show and the option to keep going. If you are after a dark room and a long techno set, this is not it, and that is worth knowing before you book.

The Vibe

The setting does a lot of the work. So Lounge sits in the Sofitel gardens with Moroccan lanterns, an open-air terrace and lighting that gets properly theatrical once the show starts. Early in the evening it reads as an elegant garden restaurant. By midnight it reads as a club that happens to have served you dinner.

The crowd is affluent and international, well dressed, broadly in the 25 to 45 range, a mix of hotel guests, visitors and locals out for a big night. That read comes from how the venue pitches itself, not a hard count, so take it as a general steer. The energy is the selling point. Dancers are woven into the live performance and the lighting keeps building through the night, so the room ends up feeling more like an event than a sit-down meal. It gets loud and busy on weekends, so skip it if you want a low-key conversation.

The Menu

The kitchen is Asian-led under Chef Zong, built around sushi and modern Asian cooking, with some Moroccan and French plates on the card for the table that wants a mix. If you want a steer on what to order, the sushi and the modern Asian plates are the heart of the menu, so lead there.

On price, the figures we have come from a booking aggregator, not the venue itself, and they may be dated, so read them as approximate. Sample à la carte prices have included chicken nems around 160 MAD and salmon tartare around 220 MAD, with an average meal landing somewhere around 450 to 500 MAD per person before drinks. Order to share across the table and you will get the range of the kitchen without overcommitting to any one section.

The Music

The live band is the signature. It blends Gnaoua rhythms with contemporary music, with dancers integrated into the set, and shows run roughly every 30 minutes so the entertainment carries the evening from dinner toward the club. It is the same trick the best dinner-cabarets in the city pull, the room itself becoming the stage, and So Lounge does it at scale.

Once the shows wind down around 12:30 AM, the resident DJ Amine takes over with guests, spinning into the early hours. The sound leans club-friendly, built to keep a dinner crowd on its feet, which is exactly what a venue like this is for. A techno purist will want a different room. Take the genre labels as a general steer and confirm the night before you commit.

Prices and Entry

Treat all of these as approximate. The numbers below come from booking aggregators and agents, not from an official Sofitel rate card, and they move with the night and the season.

• Entry / cover: roughly 150 to 300 MAD, usually including one drink. It is reportedly free for hotel guests before midnight, excluding weekends and special events. This is not confirmed on the official page, so check at the door.
• Dinner: around 450 to 500 MAD per person before extra drinks.
• Table minimum spend: from around 2,500 MAD for a small VIP table, climbing toward 10,000 MAD for a dancefloor table seating six to eight.

Drinks run to signature cocktails and bottle service. We could not find a published cocktail list by name, so we will not invent one, but bottle service and cocktails are the standard play once you are seated. If you are taking a table, the minimum spend is less about the bottle itself and more about holding a guaranteed base in a room that fills up.

When to Go

So Lounge runs daily, roughly 7:30 PM to 4:00 AM, with no closed days reported, though we cannot promise it opens every single night of the year, so confirm if you are going on a quiet midweek date out of season. The evening has a clear shape: dinner from about 7:30 PM, live shows from around 9:30 PM to 12:30 AM, and clubbing from midnight to close.

That timing tells you how to plan. If the cabaret is the point, book dinner and be seated by 9 so you catch the shows from a proper table. If you are mainly there for the club, a later arrival times it better, but you will be walking into a room that has already been warming up for hours. Weekends bring the fullest crowd and the biggest energy.

How to Book

Book through the Sofitel Marrakech directly. The hotel line is +212 5 24 42 56 00, and So Lounge also lists +212 6 56 51 50 09, though that second number is from a third-party source so confirm it when you call. Email goes to H3569@sofitel.com or Reservation.solounge@sofitel.com, and there is a WhatsApp link on the venue's channels. The official Instagram is @soloungekech, which is the easiest place to see what is on and message a quick question.

See the full lineup in our guide to Dinner Shows Cabarets Marrakech →

On a peak weekend, a walk-up for a good table is a gamble. This is where it pays to have someone holding a spot for you. The Marrakech Society handles exactly this for members, tables and guest list across So Lounge and the rest of Hivernage, so you skip the back-and-forth and the guesswork. If you want the night sorted before you land, apply for membership and let the concierge line it up.

What to Know

Dress smart-casual and elegant. Think dinner that turns into a night out: leave the shorts, sportswear and flip-flops at the hotel and you will clear the door comfortably.

Getting there is easy. So Lounge sits inside the Sofitel Marrakech Palais Impérial on Rue Haroun Errachid in Hivernage, central and well served by taxis, a short ride from the medina. Agree the fare before you set off or have your hotel call a car, and given the hours, arrange a ride for the way back. A last honest note: the entry fee, the table minimums and the dish prices here all come from booking aggregators, not the official Sofitel page, so use them to plan a budget and confirm the exact figures when you reserve.