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Three coloured-glass lanterns hanging beneath a red and purple fabric canopy.

Cairo · Zamalek

Abou El Sid

Egyptian cooking served in a dark oriental salon, cushions and lanterns included.

€€€ High end

Molokheya, stuffed pigeon, fatta, tagines: the menu of family meals, in a nineteenth-century salon setting where you eat sitting very low. The address you give a visitor for their first real Egyptian dinner, and it serves alcohol, which is rare for this cooking.

The extra bit

Order the pigeon stuffed with freekeh: it is the dish Cairenes come for, and it takes time.

Know before you go

Booking needed in the evening, especially at weekends. Tables are low and seating is on cushions: uncomfortable for a fragile back.

Directions

26th of July street, Zamalek, Cairo

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