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Popular Restaurants | Other Restaurants Tips | All Tips (34) The prices for food and beverages are average in comparsion with other restaurant along the Corniche. You need to take note that some restaurant by the NIle may be blocked by those 5 star cruises which dock along there. So you should look for restaurant with open view. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: US$11-20 » Currency ConverterComparison: more expensive than averageAddress: Corniche el-nilPhone: 316-108
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This is an outdoor corner cafe it has an outdoor barbeque feel. There is an outdoor gazebo, tables and chairs, and a covered patio. Nice place to go in the evening for cool drinks in the evening after a day of Aswan heat. Good place to go if you would like to mingle with locals.
I like the Chicken sandwiches and grilled Shish Kabobs. They offer Turkish Coffee, Karkadie (Hibiscus Tea) hot or cold, Zabadee (Yogurt and Honey), sodas, and Shisha (Tobacco and Waterpipe). Theme: LocalPrice: US$11-20 » Currency ConverterComparison: more expensive than averageAddress: Nasr City Street
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What makes this restaurant special is that it offers Nubian cuisine.
But to tell you the truth I did not anything offered there with one exception: the bread.
Which reminds me of the story a fried told me. When they were on a vacation in Egypt they went on an organized tour, so called jeep safari, to a Nubian village. There they watched how the locals make the bread before to offer it to the tourists: the local lady used camel poop (sorry, what is the polite word) to fire the oven and then without washing her hands baked the bread. Maybe this makes the bread so delicious. Leave a Comment Theme: African
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Very unpretentious and quite popular with local families, el-Masry restaurant serves solid local food. The koshari and kebabs are excellent and service is attentive. The large neon-lit restaurant is divided into two or three dining rooms and, although clean, there is nothing luxurious about it. The restaurant did make it into some of the tourist guides, such as the Lonely Planet, and therefore receives its share of tourists, but the presence of locals is a good indication of the authenticity of the food. Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than averageAddress: Sharia el-MatarDirections: Centre of town, about two blocks east of Sharia es-Souk
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I visited this restaurant because it was recommended in Lonely Planet. I had hot tea for 2.5 EGP + services and taxes, which added up to be 3 EGP (May 2006). It has a great view of river nile as showed in the pic. Also see pic of the memu.
I felt this restaurant is not honest. I purchased 3 drinks with 3 EGP each (inclusive of all services and taxes), but the staff keep saying that 3 drinks 10 EGP because of the services and taxes. I asked her to calculate one by one and do the addition. She said 3 EGP each and 3 drinks = 10 EGP. Ha ha. She was testing my basic mathematics! Guess who's right? Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageAddress: Corniche el-Nil
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When we arranged our boat tour to the Nile, as our driver said it included lunch. We bought all the necessary ingredients at the local market and he arranged the cooking. We were astonished to see that the cook was using water directly from Nile river!!!
Despite the initial shock we enjoyed our simple lunch (thank god we were students by then and less cautious) and luckily up to now years after nothing happened to us (I think this is due to the fact that the water was boiled)
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One of the best places for local Egyptian food in Aswan, Clean small restaurant, friendly staff. Many tour guides take small groups here. Large portions of grilled chicken, beef and lamb kebobs, fatta, kofta, tahina, babaghanouj, and stuffed peppers.
My favorite dish here would be the Grilled Chicken and the Potatoes in Tomato Sauce. I could eat this stuff all day! Theme: LocalPrice: US$11-20 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageAddress: Saad Zalolo StreetDirections: Ask any cab driver in Aswan to take you there, he knows the way.
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It was special because we were eating food that was easily recognisable!!
However, the food on the cruise was unbelievable and I tried everything because if I didn't know what it was then I could at least ask!!
Cheeseburger and large fries!! Leave a Comment Theme: Fast FoodDirections: Behind Luxor Temple
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I enjoyed another local dessert Um Ali in the New Cataract Hotel coffee shop. Once in a while we should pamper ourselves. Coffee 11 EGP and Um Ali 22 EGP (May 2006). Good dessert and I like very much. Expensive afternoon tea for me, but the experience is worth.
See pics for the coffee shop ambience and a short tour of the old Cataract Hotel as well. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: more expensive than average
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I always look for cakes to accompany my afternoon tea. I found it is not so easy in Egypt, in comparsion to Morocco which I visited in March 2006. In Morocco, I was so used to have cafe au-lait with pastry.
I finally found one local bakery in Aswan, but I dont recall the name of this bakery, which is located abtral at-Tahnr at the corner near the train station. It sells different types of cakes. The staff was friendly and when I demand to sit in to have the cake and tea, she ordered someone from the store to go next door to get me a cup of tea. Cakes = 3 EGP and tea 1 EGP. Leave a Comment
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