• Bamboo benches spread with striped mattresses and cushions, set right on the sand facing the sea.

    Dahab's seafront tables

    Eating with your feet in the sand, a metre from the reef, watching divers come back.

    SinaiAssalah, Dahab

    €€ Mid-rangeSea view
  • Rows of grilled minced-meat fingers on the grill, in the smoke.

    The tables of Ras Sudr

    Fish and grills on the Gulf of Suez coast, two hours from Cairo.

    SinaiRas Sudr, Sinai

    €€ Mid-rangeSea view