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Charcoal-grilled chicken, sold whole with bread, tahini and salads.
CairoAll over Cairo
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.
The leafy southern district, its terraces and its international dining.
CairoMaadi
Cairo's island and its restaurants per square kilometre.
CairoZamalek
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
A children's city inside a mall: they hold down a job, they get paid — and the parents wait.
CairoNew Cairo
Heliopolis's old racecourse turned neighbourhood park: grass, water, and crowds until midnight.
The countries of the world in miniature, a small zoo and fairground rides: you pay to get in, then you pay by zone.
