Le Jasmine

Verdict: A rare Chinese restaurant in Casablanca that has earned international recognition; and is easy enough to book that there's no excuse not to try it

Le Jasmine is one of the more unusual propositions in Casablanca's dining scene: a Chinese restaurant on Rue Dr Veyre that has accumulated enough critical weight to appear on our full Casablanca restaurants guide as a serious option. La Liste placed it at 75 points in their 2025 Leading Restaurants ranking, Opinionated About Dining has flagged it twice; ranking it at #526 among Casual North America venues in 2024 and recommending it in 2023. That last credential is slightly anomalous given the venue's Moroccan location, but the recognition signals a kitchen operating at a level that travels across categories.

Booking is direct. Unlike Casablanca's more formal fine-dining rooms, Le Jasmine does not appear to require weeks of advance planning. If you're in the city and want to eat Chinese food that has been independently validated at an international level, you can likely get a table with reasonable notice. That accessibility makes it a strong candidate for a spontaneous second or third night out after you've worked through the Moroccan-focused options on your list.

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Chef Kang Chi Lam leads the kitchen at 9 Rue Dr Veyre, the La Liste recognition for Expression of the Terroir suggests the menu isn't simply transplanting a standard Chinese repertoire into a Moroccan context, there's some engagement with local ingredients or local identity at work. For a first-timer, that framing is useful: expect Chinese technique applied with an awareness of where the restaurant actually sits, rather than a generic Cantonese or Sichuan menu you could find in any major city.

For a first visit, the practical approach is to treat the meal as an orientation. The price range is not published in available data, so arrive without strong assumptions about spend and ask the staff for guidance on portion sizes and ordering logic, Chinese menus in this format often reward sharing across multiple dishes rather than ordering per person.

On a second visit, the La Liste "Expression of the Terroir" distinction gives you a direction: push toward whatever the kitchen considers its most locally inflected dishes. These are the items where Le Jasmine differentiates itself from Chinese restaurants in larger culinary capitals like Restaurant Tim Raue in Berlin or Mister Jiu's in San Francisco, both of which operate in cities with deep Chinese dining ecosystems. Le Jasmine is doing something different by definition, it's the only venue of this calibre in its market, the terroir framing is the sharpest lens through which to read it.

A third visit, if you find yourself returning to Casablanca, is the moment to be more systematic: work through different sections of the menu, particularly anything that reflects seasonal produce or changes with availability. Moroccan ingredient cycles, fish from the Atlantic coast, produce from the interior, give a kitchen with this kind of ambition genuine material to work with across the year. The TA-2 frame applies here: if the kitchen has evolved its sourcing or menu approach recently, repeat visitors are better positioned to notice and benefit from that shift than first-timers ordering conservatively.

Le Jasmine sits at 9 Rue Dr Veyre, Casablanca 20250. For broader planning across the city, see our full Casablanca hotels guide, our full Casablanca bars guide, and our full Casablanca experiences guide. If your trip extends beyond Casablanca, comparable independently recognised restaurants elsewhere in Morocco include +61 in Marrakesh, Gayza in Fès, and Heure Bleue Palais in Essaouira. For wine-focused stops, Château Roslane and L'Oliveraie in El Hajeb are worth noting, with our full Casablanca wineries guide covering the broader picture. Le Petit Cornichon in Marrakech and Ecolodge Atlas Kasbay in Agadir round out the Morocco shortlist for travellers covering multiple cities.