Rick's Café is an unabashed act of nostalgic theatre: a recreation of the film set from the 1942 Humphrey Bogart movie, built in a 19th-century riad in the old medina by Kathy Kriger, a retired American diplomat, in 2004. The connection to the actual film is zero — "Casablanca" was shot entirely in Hollywood and no part of it was filmed here — but Kriger built the place anyway, and it has become one of the city's most popular restaurants.
The interior is beautifully done: a double-height space with carved plasterwork, a bar, a piano (which plays, of course), and a terrace on the rooftop. The food is Moroccan-Mediterranean and reliably good — fresh fish, tagines, and couscous. Prices are higher than the city average, the clientele is heavily international, and a reservation is advisable. The self-aware theatricality of the whole enterprise is part of the point; treating it as an ironic experience rather than an authentic one makes it more enjoyable.