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A platter of liver sandwiches in flatbread, with green chillies and lemon halves.

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Cairo · Sayeda Zeinab

El Refai

Sayeda Zeinab's liver and sausage, served from the pan until late.

€ Budget

A neighbourhood institution: Alexandrian-style liver, sausage, brain, served in a sandwich or a pan, at tables on the pavement. The district comes to eat after evening prayer, and the atmosphere is half the meal.

The extra bit

The mixed pan to share, with baladi bread: what the next table is having.

Know before you go

Cash, service on the fly, and a crowd at weekends: that is the point of the place.

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Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo

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