Kouss-Kouss Festival 2025

Since its launch in 2018, Kouss-Kouss has been exploring the tastes, variations and sounds of this great cross-cultural dish. After harissa (2022), blue fish (2023) and a thousand and one seeds (2024), the festival is once again playing the theme card by devoting its new edition to chickpeas. From the Belle de Mai to the Plan d’Aou, via the Old Port, Noailles, les Goudes and all the neighbourhoods where the energy of Marseille’s culinary scene is pulsating, nearly 200 venues are invited to vibrate to the rhythm of couscous: emblematic restaurants, emerging restaurants, community canteens, residents’ associations, third-party venues, bakeries, patisseries, grocery shops, etc.

This 8th edition of Kouss-Kouss, part of L’Été marseillais 2025, is co-produced by the Office de Tourisme, des Loisirs et des Congrès de Marseille and the City of Marseille, with the support of couscous Carret Munos. Kouss-Kouss is produced by I.C.I-Les grandes Tables & Marseille Centre.

For this seventh edition, 17 days to break the seed! Nearly 240 participants from all over Marseille are taking part, including restaurants, chefs, shops and cultural venues. The 30 guest chefs include: Jihad Assad (Alexandria), Johann Barichasse (Marseille), Maha Boukraa & Marwa Ghedir (Tunis), Alix Hardy (Marseille), Hadi Hazim (Beirut), Haya Issa (Amman), Mina Kouk (Marseille), Hamid Miss (Toulouse), Nadia Reguieg (Marseille), Aida Senechaut (Marseille), Zuri de Souza (Marseille), Aylin Yazicioglu (Izmir), Andrée Zana Murat (Paris), Melek Zertal (Constantine)

The great Kouss Kouss of l’Été Marseillais

On Saturday 30 August 2025, the City of Marseille, in partnership with the Office de Tourisme, des Loisirs et des Congrès de Marseille, invites you to share 5,000 couscous on the Place Bargemon and enjoy a great moment of conviviality together, under the banner of sharing, flavours and the Mediterranean! And don’t forget the music, with concerts by Moussu T e lei Jouvents (7.30pm) and Les Héritières (8.45pm).

Registration is compulsory, and there will be 3 services
7pm > 8pm / 8pm> 9pm / 9pm> 10pm
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start time of your chosen slot with your QR code (after this time, your place will be reallocated). If you can, please print out your confirmation by email with the same QRCode.
If you are unable to attend, you must cancel your booking by logging into your account.
A text message will be sent to you if the event is cancelled.
The event is accessible to PRMs, a dedicated reception will be set up.
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To dance we meet on the roof terrace of Friche la Belle-de-Mai with two evenings on 5 & 6 September with programming by AMI and Cabaret Aléatoire. There will also be educational workshops, cookery demonstrations and a big Kouss-Kouss market on 7 September in the Old Port.

Big Kouss Kouss market on 7 September in the Old Port.
Meet local chickpea producers and processors and enjoy culinary demonstrations.