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Everyday Egyptian cooking, in a residential corner of Heliopolis.
CairoHeliopolis
A dependable table at Garden 8, in New Cairo, where dinner rarely disappoints.
CairoNew Cairo
The ice counter and the scales, moved into a proper dining room out in New Cairo.
Fish by the kilo on North 90th: New Cairo goes, and goes back.
A roof above al-Moez street: you dine at minaret height.
CairoIslamic Cairo
Egyptian street food redrawn by a designer, without betraying the recipe.
CairoZamalek
El-Manial's oriental table, on Roda Island, known to its neighbourhood long before any guidebook.
CairoEl-Manial
You come up for Cairo seen from the top of the tower, not for the menu.
Forty craft workshops under one roof, at posted prices.
CairoFustat, next to Coptic Cairo
Kebab and kofta over charcoal, in a working-class quarter of northern Cairo.
CairoRod El Farag
Cairo's largest Mamluk complex — and a mausoleum whose occupant never arrived.
CairoRumeila
Muhammad Ali's dynasty rests here — and, with it, the last Shah of Iran.
A furnished Ottoman house, lived in as it was, pressed against Ibn Tulun's outer wall.
CairoSayyida Zeinab
Egypt's richest collection of Islamic art, down to the enamelled Mamluk mosque lamps.
CairoBab el-Khalq
The largest collection of Coptic art anywhere, in a museum built against the walls of the Babylon fortress.
CairoOld Cairo, Fustat
Buildings, borrowed styles, a garden of rare trees — on an island in the middle of Cairo.
CairoManial, Roda Island
A concrete Hindu temple on the airport road, long left to rumour.
The day power left the Citadel and came down into the city.
CairoAbdeen
The tea room of cosmopolitan Cairo, faded and now under restoration. Come for the decor and the story.
CairoTalaat Harb, Downtown
Downtown's café of writers and conspirators, opened in 1908.
The southern gate of Fatimid Cairo, topped by two Mamluk minarets you can climb.
CairoDarb el-Ahmar
A madrasa, a mausoleum and a hospital from 1284, in the middle of al-Muizz street.
CairoAl-Muizz, Gamaliya
Three halls on Gezira island, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra — and no main hall without a jacket.
CairoGezira, Zamalek
One hundred and eighty-seven metres midstream, and the city readable at a glance. Go up at dusk.
