Is there food / a buffet car on Moroccan trains?

Food on Moroccan trains splits neatly along the same line as everything else — the high-speed service versus the conventional network. On Al Boraq, the Tangier–Casablanca high-speed train, there's a proper buffet car, and it's a pleasant part of the modern, European-feel experience: you can walk along and buy coffee, soft drinks, water, sandwiches, pastries and snacks. On that line you don't need to plan ahead for refreshments — it's all there, which suits the polished tone of the whole ride.

The conventional ONCF inter-city trains are a different and more variable story, and this is where I give people honest guidance. Food service on them is limited and inconsistent — on some services a vendor or a small trolley with drinks and snacks may come through the carriages, but it's genuinely not something to rely on. You might get a coffee passed along; you might get nothing for a five-hour journey. There's no dependable buffet car on most of the older fleet, so treating it as a maybe rather than a given keeps you from going hungry.

My standing habit, and the advice I give every traveller, is to provision at the station before boarding. Moroccan train stations almost always have cafés, kiosks and shops selling water, soft drinks, pastries, sandwiches, fruit and nuts — usually cheaper and better than anything onboard anyway. Five minutes spent grabbing a bottle of water and a couple of snacks before you find your seat means you're set whatever the train does, and on a hot day having your own water is genuinely important rather than just nice.

A few practical notes. The scheduled rest stops are a coach thing, not a train thing, so on a train you can't bank on a break to buy food mid-journey — provision in advance. Bring more water than you think you'll need in summer. And if you're travelling with children, having familiar snacks in the bag heads off the hungry-kid meltdown that no trolley will rescue you from. So: a real buffet on Al Boraq, an unreliable trickle on the conventional trains, and a station-bought picnic as the move that never lets you down.