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A dish of large grilled prawns with lemon, garlic and tomatoes.

Alexandria · Anfoushi, Alexandria

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Alexandria's fish table, run by a former singer who became a neighbourhood legend.

€€€ High endOur favourite

Near the fishing port, a plain room where you choose your fish at the stall before it goes to the grill or the pot. Garlic prawns and seafood rice are what the city names first when you ask where to eat fish.

The extra bit

Order the seafood rice at the same time as the fish: it takes a long time to cook.

Know before you go

Book at weekends, and confirm the price per kilo before weighing: standard practice all over Bahary.

Directions

Qasr Ras el-Tin street, Anfoushi, Alexandria

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