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Downtown's live music club, in an alley behind Talaat Harb.
CairoDowntown
A basement bar in Zamalek, discreet and full of long-standing regulars.
CairoZamalek
A hidden courtyard terrace behind a busy street, a refuge for writers and journalists.
In five years, Cairo has gone from instant coffee to single-origin filter — and the roasters are Egyptian.
CairoZamalek, Maadi, Tagamoa
Twenty counters under one roof: the format that replaced the single restaurant.
CairoNew Cairo / Tagamoa
An Ottoman pavilion at water level on the Nile, now an Arabic music hall.
CairoRhoda island
Weekend markets where farms from Fayoum and the Delta sell direct.
CairoZamalek, Maadi, Sheikh Zayed
Three days of concerts, with Egyptian bands and guests from all over.
CairoCairo
Twenty Egyptian sovereigns, moved in 2021 into a hall built for them.
CairoFustat
Cairo kebab since 1947, served from the same short menu as on day one.
CairoGarden City and branches
The Yemeni mandi that conquered Cairo: lamb, smoked rice, sharing platters.
CairoNasr City and branches
A century-old kebab house, steps from the al-Hussein mosque.
CairoSayeda Zeinab and Hussein
Grills and daily dishes in a Downtown room that never empties.
Cairo's American burger since the 1990s, in a Maadi diner.
CairoMaadi
The food-hall generation's burger, sourced and cooked to order.
CairoZamalek, Maadi, New Cairo
A Greek brasserie in Heliopolis, open since between the wars.
CairoHeliopolis
The district where you eat at any hour: grills, Yemeni, Syrian, fast food.
CairoNasr City
A month when the city eats at the same minute, and the streets become dining rooms.
CairoAll over Cairo
The leafy southern district, its terraces and its international dining.
Mezze, grills and fatteh: the foreign cuisine most firmly settled in Egypt.
CairoZamalek, Mohandessin, Tagamoa
North-east Cairo's water park — but only in the hot season.
CairoEl Obour City, km 31 of the Cairo–Ismailia road, Qalyubia governorate
Eighty feddans of lawns and rides at km 26 of the Suez road: the weekend outing of New Cairo families.
CairoNew Cairo — Al Rehab
The countries of the world in miniature, a small zoo and fairground rides: you pay to get in, then you pay by zone.
Two floors of trampolines inside a mall: it bounces, and it echoes.
