Café-Restaurant de la Paix is the kind of place every French-built hill town in Morocco used to have: a big, slightly formal room on the main street, waiters who have been there forever, and a menu that runs from tagines and brochettes to steak-frites. It has been a fixture of central Ifrane for decades, and it remains the default address for a proper sit-down meal in town.
The terrace is the real draw — Ifrane's main street is made for watching the parade of students from Al Akhawayn, Moroccan holidaymakers, and the occasional busload of day-trippers photographing the stone lion across the way. Come for a mint tea and a pastry in the afternoon if you don't want a full meal. Prices are higher than elsewhere in the Middle Atlas; that's Ifrane.