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Visual Kouss Kouss 2026 Herbes Aromateskousskouss

Kouss-Kouss Festival 2026

The Kouss-Kouss Festival is your not-to-be-missed end-of-summer event! Dozens of different Marseilles-based organisations come together to propose their own recipes for this unique dish. This year it’s all about herbs and spices!
The whole of Marseille will be vibrating to the rhythm of the Kouss-Kouss Festival!

Updated on 2 June 2026

Herbs & Seasonning

Since its launch in 2018, Kouss-Kouss has been exploring the tastes, variations and sounds of the great cross-cultural dish. After harissa (2022) and blue fish (2023), a thousand and one seeds (2024), and chickpeas (2025), the festival is once again playing the theme card by devoting its new edition to herbs and spices. From the Belle de Mai to the Plan d’Aou, via the Old Port, Noailles, les Goudes and all the districts where the energy of Marseille’s culinary scene is pulsating, nearly 200 places are invited to vibrate to the rhythm of aromatic herbs: emblematic restaurants, emerging tables, solidarity canteens, residents’ associations, third places, bakeries, patisseries, grocery shops…

This 9th edition of Kouss-Kouss, part of L’Été marseillais, is co-produced by the Office de Tourisme, des Loisirs et des Congrès de Marseille, the City of Marseille, Kouss-Kouss is a production of I.C.I- Cuisines de l’extraordinaire, Les grandes Tables & Marseille shopping.

PROGRAMME COMING SOON!

Did you know?

“Kouss Kouss” is the sound made by the pestle when grinding the wheat, but it is also one of the first names given to this dish of Berber origin, which has become emblematic of the whole of the Maghreb.