Where to eat in Cairo

Restaurants, cafés and street food in Cairo, Egypt that locals actually go to — plus the local names for the chains you already know.

• El Fishawy — Ahwa / café, Khan el-Khalili (1). Order the Mint tea + shisha. Mirrored café pouring mint tea since 1773 — Mahfouz's haunt.
• Felfela — Egyptian, Downtown (2). Order the Ful + taameya spread. The 1959 downtown classic for ful, taameya, and grills.
• Abou El Sid — Egyptian heritage, Zamalek (2). Order the Molokheya with rabbit + stuffed pigeon. Salon-style Egyptian classics — molokheya as it should be.
• Zooba — Modern street food, Zamalek (1). Order the Taameya sliders + koshary cup. Street classics, cleaned up and colour-blocked.
• Sobhy Kaber — Grills, Shubra (2). Order the Mixed grill + kofta be zabadi. The grill house Cairenes cross the city for — portions defy logic.
• Andrea Mariouteya — Grilled chicken, Giza / Mariouteya Canal (2). Order the Charcoal chicken + fresh baladi bread. Garden chicken-and-bread feasts since 1958 — fresh baladi from the oven.
• Abou Tarek — Koshary, Downtown (1). Order the Koshary, extra dakka. The multi-storey koshary monument — one dish, perfected.

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