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A plate of golden rice with pieces of meat and cloves of garlic.

Cairo · Garden City, Nile side

Osmanly

Egypt's Ottoman cooking, served in a palace salon.

€€€ High end

A menu reviving nineteenth-century court kitchen dishes: meats with dried fruit, scented rice, milk desserts. The woodwork-and-mother-of-pearl decor supports the point, and it is one of the few places where this cooking is still eaten.

The extra bit

Take a meat dish with dried fruit: the signature of this cooking, unavailable elsewhere in town.

Know before you go

A hotel table with booking advised: the rooms are small and services limited.

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Nile Corniche, Garden City, Cairo

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