Restaurants, cafes, hotels, and hospitality venues worth discovering.
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Downtown Cairo koshari institution running since 1950
The first restaurant built on the Giza Pyramids plateau itself
A Smouha shawarma spot known locally for Syrian-style cooking
A Parisian-style salon de thé tucked behind the Cairo Marriott in Zamalek
A downtown coffeehouse open since the 1930s, serving Stella beer alongside backgammon
A pizza and fteer spot near Sheraton Al Matar in Heliopolis
The Merryland Park branch of Andrea, Cairo's grilled-chicken institution
A branch of the Aroma Lounge cafe chain inside Katameya Downtown Mall
Lebanese garden dining inside the Nile Ritz-Carlton, facing the Egyptian Museum
A Downtown pasta and fast-food counter off Talaat Harb Street
A moored restaurant boat off Zamalek with several dining rooms under one deck
A Lebanese and Mediterranean grill chain's outlet on New Cairo's South 90th Street
A 1950s Heliopolis bakery that became a Swiss-Egyptian institution in El Korba
The Dallas Tex-Mex chain's branch beside the 26th of July Axis in Giza's Royal City
The Tex-Mex chain's branch off South 90th Street in New Cairo's Lotus district
The Seattle-area cinnamon roll chain's branch on Talaat Mostafa Street in Al Rehab
The Heliopolis branch of a Missouri rock 'n' roll-themed coffee chain gone international
A New Cairo outpost of one of Cairo's earliest Italian restaurant chains
A branch of Cairo's Dancing Goat specialty-coffee chain, inside the Shades complex
A Nazlet El-Semman grill and seafood restaurant steps from the Pyramids
A branch of El Shabrawy on Heliopolis's Mohamed Rifaat Street
A Heliopolis branch of one of Cairo's oldest ful and falafel chains
A Khan el-Khalili coffeehouse run by the same family since the 1790s
A Cairo Festival City branch of the Enab Beirut Lebanese chain
A grill-and-shawarma house on Alexandria's Safiya Zaghloul Street
A seafood counter on El Thawra Street beside Grand Café
A long-running Americana Group café on El Thawra Street
The art deco Talaat Harb Square cafe founded by Swiss chocolatier Giacomo Groppi
Groppi's Heliopolis branch, facing the Ittihadiya presidential palace in El Korba
A seafood chain's branch inside Sheikh Zayed's Royal City
A Belgian-chocolate cafe branch inside Katameya Downtown Mall in New Cairo
A koshary shop near Al-Hasary Square in 6th of October City
The koshary shop that fed Tahrir Square's 2011 protesters
A Palm Hills outlet of Cairo's Lychee healthy-food chain
A Downtown Cairo bakery-café on Qasr El Nil Street near Tahrir Square
Ladurée's dining room beside the Great Pyramids of Giza
A 1941 Downtown beer garden once packed before Umm Kulthum's shows
A 2022 Alexandria bistro that replaced Le Boudoir
A New Cairo branch of Egypt's McDonald's network, run by Manfoods since 1994
A Sao Paulo-born sushi chain's outlet inside a Fifth Settlement mall
The Oberoi café renamed for Mahfouz after his 1988 Nobel Prize
A permanently moored Nile boat holding five separate restaurants
Ottoman-era Turkish dining inside the Kempinski Nile Hotel
An open-air food court anchoring dining in New Cairo's South Academy area
The French bakery chain's branch at the entrance to Point 90 Mall
A decades-old Lebanese restaurant on Heliopolis's Al-Ahram Street
A Pizza Hut branch on Al-Sarganey Street near Heliopolis
A pick-your-own-fish seafood spot in Alexandria's Fleming district
