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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
South 90's smart end: a well-kept room and prices to match.
A dinner that moves: the Nile slides past, and the river is the main course.
CairoDokki
The ice counter and the scales, moved into a proper dining room out in New Cairo.
Fish served aboard a boat moored on the Nile, on the Zamalek side.
CairoZamalek
Luxor's best table, in an old house, far from the picture menus.
LuxorEast bank
An international menu, a Japanese one alongside, and a view, in Tagamoa 2.
The French restaurant at the Semiramis, for evenings when you want quiet and proper service.
CairoGarden City
Sushi and fusion in the Nile City towers, for the evening when the trip needs a break.
CairoBulaq
A sushi bar in Tagamoa 1: a few pieces, without giving up your whole evening.
A brasserie by the water, inside a private club: check they will let you in first.
The Four Seasons dining room on the Corniche: what you pay for here is the absence of nasty surprises.
CairoQasr El Nil
Fish by the kilo on North 90th: New Cairo goes, and goes back.
The name says French; the menu says smash burgers and pizza.
CairoMadinet El Waha, Nasr City
A roof above al-Moez street: you dine at minaret height.
CairoIslamic Cairo
Egyptian street food redrawn by a designer, without betraying the recipe.
You pick your fish off the ice, they grill it, you eat facing the harbour.
AlexandriaAnfoushi / Corniche
El-Manial's oriental table, on Roda Island, known to its neighbourhood long before any guidebook.
CairoEl-Manial
An Italian kitchen on the Nile in Zamalek, with prices to match the view.
You come up for Cairo seen from the top of the tower, not for the menu.
The national dish, from a house that has done nothing else for decades.
CairoDowntown
Kebab and kofta over charcoal, in a working-class quarter of northern Cairo.
CairoRod El Farag
Everyday koshari — the neighbourhood bowl rather than the guidebook one.
CairoAbdeen
