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A whole fish grilling over charcoal embers.

Marsa Alam & the Red Sea · Quseir

The tables of Quseir

Fish from a real port, served on a seafront with no resort.

€ BudgetOff the beaten track

Quseir has kept its fishing quay and its Ottoman cafés: you eat the day's fish in plain rooms, at prices that have not followed the coast's. One of the last Red Sea towns whose life does not depend on hotels.

The extra bit

Eat facing the port rather than on the road: that is where the boats unload.

Know before you go

A quiet, conservative town: no alcohol in most places.

Directions

Seafront, Quseir, Red Sea

Directions

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