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Grills and daily dishes in a Downtown room that never empties.
CairoDowntown
Cairo's American burger since the 1990s, in a Maadi diner.
CairoMaadi
The chain bakery that put fiteer and croissants on the same counter.
CairoAll across Cairo
The food-hall generation's burger, sourced and cooked to order.
CairoZamalek, Maadi, New Cairo
Shawarma, fatteh and Damascene sweets: the cooking Syria brought to Egypt.
Cairo6th of October, Nasr City, Hadayek el-Ahram
Sayeda Zeinab's liver and sausage, served from the pan until late.
CairoSayeda Zeinab
Spiced minced meat sealed in bread and put to the wood oven.
CairoWorking-class districts, Cairo
The hand-stretched layered pastry, sweet or savoury, baked in four minutes.
CairoAll over Cairo
Charcoal-grilled chicken, sold whole with bread, tahini and salads.
The national green soup, finely chopped and finished with fried garlic.
CairoCairo
Konafa, basbousa, om ali: Egyptian sweets sold by weight, all night.
Taameya, foul, potato and aubergine in baladi bread, for almost nothing.
A Greek brasserie in Heliopolis, open since between the wars.
CairoHeliopolis
Sudanese ful, agashe and kisra: a neighbouring cuisine, and yet unknown.
CairoArba' wa Nus, Faisal, Nasr City
Clay tagines, oven meat and sorghum bread, brought from Upper Egypt.
CairoBoulaq, Imbaba, Sayeda Zeinab
Cane pressed in front of you, for the price of a coin.
The district where you eat at any hour: grills, Yemeni, Syrian, fast food.
CairoNasr City
Cairo's contemporary dining, concentrated in the city's east.
CairoNew Cairo / Tagamoa
A month when the city eats at the same minute, and the streets become dining rooms.
Cairo's reference Lebanese table, in a hotel by the river.
CairoGarden City, Nile side
Egypt's Ottoman cooking, served in a palace salon.
Egyptian grills on a terrace set at the river's edge.
CairoZamalek, Nile side
A moored boat where you pick your fish off the ice before sitting down.
CairoAgouza, Nile side
Egyptian popular cooking is largely vegan — you just have to know it.
