Cairo & Giza — Places to eat
Where the pyramids pop up in your taxi window.
- Koshary Abou Tarek — A whole building given over to koshary; the classic first meal in Cairo
- Koshary El Tahrir (Bab El Louq) — The koshary chain Cairenes name when they don't say Abou Tarek
- Felfela (Downtown) — Ful and ta'ameya since 1959: Egyptian breakfast on one table
- Zööba (Zamalek) — Egyptian street food, cleaned up and colourful
- Farahat (pigeon) — Charcoal-grilled pigeon in a Khan el-Khalili alley
- Abou El Sid (Zamalek) — A proper Egyptian dinner in a room like an old mansion
- Khan El Khalili Restaurant & Naguib Mahfouz Café — An air-conditioned refuge mid-bazaar, named for a Nobel laureate
- 9 Pyramids Lounge — The restaurant on the plateau where all nine pyramids line up
- Khufu's Restaurant — Upscale Egyptian set menus beside the pyramids
- Andrea (El Mariouteya) — Grilled chicken and fresh feteer in a canal-side garden
- El Fishawy Café — Mint tea in a mirrored alley café, open since 1797
- Simonds (Zamalek) — An old Zamalek bakery-café where you drink your cappuccino standing
- El Abd (Talaat Harb) — The downtown sweet shop for basbousa and kunafa
- El Malky (Faisal St) — Om ali from a dairy that opened by Al-Hussein Mosque in 1917
- Sachi — Korba's Asian fusion, on MENA's 50 Best
- Kazoku — Japanese inside Swan Lake, a 50 Best regular
- Café Riche — Writers and plotters have sat here since 1908
- Granita — Breakfast and desserts in a cathedral courtyard
- Cake Café (Zamalek) — The cake counter is the star at the Zamalek original
- Ahwak Salon de Thé — A tea salon with mirrors and chandeliers