Luxor Restaurants

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Complementing its beautiful setting and excellent service, the restaurant at Al Moudira Hotel serves the most refined cuisine in Luxor. The menu is a mix of well-executed local and continental dishes served with some surprisingly decent local wines. Although the clientele is mostly hotel guests, the restaurant is open to others (by reservation). The restaurant serves three meals a day with lunch typically eaten by the swimming pool. The drawback for people not staying at the hotel is its distance from Luxor, as one would need to arrange for two way transportation, particularly for dinner. It will be well-worth it.

All food in John and Johns s amazing and the size of the portions could feed a army!!! all traditional english food and dishs served with gravy is sered with real bisto yummy

Favorite Dish: my favourite dish was beef shwama(dont know how to spell it) it was the tastoest dish i have ever tasted, strips of been cooked in garlic and you can have choice of rice, chips etc. also as started potaoto wedges with a choice of dips!!!! there was a pery of 9 in our group adn everyone had something different from steak pie to fish and chips. no bad report from any of out party and we retuned several times throughout out holiday

I live in Luxor, where good restaurants are in short supply as they are throughout Egypt. This newly opened small Italian restaurant takes some finding, although the taxi drivers usually know where it is, and can get directions on the phone, but it is really worth the effort. It was recommended to me by a friend, and I now eat there at least once a week. What a difference from the bland and tasteless offerings from most other places I have eaten at. The chef, a young Englishman, is dedicated to his work, and even makes his own pasta - not easy to do in Egypt, where ingredients are hard to source.
Not expensive and my only regret is that I have to cross the Nile to get to it.

Favorite Dish: What makes this place especially different is the delicious pudding menu, and the lemon possett is the best I have ever eaten. Not an extensive menu, in keeping with the owners determination to offer only the best, and the food on offer does change frequently.

7 Days 7 Ways serves THE BEST STEAK anywhere. It is a small restaurant ner the Sherraton Hotel. It is no smoking, which is great, but it also offers a nice relaxed bar area upstairs where you can, eat drink and smoke. The waiters are lovely and all speak very good english. The chef is brilliant. The prices are extremely reasonable, 39 egyptian pounds for a steak (3.50 UK) 10 egyptian pounds for a beer (90p UK) whereas the shaerraton are chargeing 35 egyptian for the beer alone. I found if it's not on the menu talk to the manager and she will try to get it cooked for you. All in all great food, great service and grat prices. What more can you ask.... BTW Premiership football is shown in the bar for ll you footie fans....

Favorite Dish: We were in quite alarge party at the restaurant we all ordered steaks cooked from blue to very well done, all came out perfectly and at the same time, all side dishes were hot.

This restaurant is in the garden of the Mercure Inn and Thursdays nights are great there.

There is an Oriental buffet for the equivalent of £7 sterling and 65LE. For this you get a glass of Karkady and the buffet. There is a great selection of dips, (babaganough, Tahina etc) and salads to start as well a steaming hot Lentil soup and stuffed aubergines.
The main course consists of Oriental rice, lamb koftas, grilled chicken, beef, mixed vegatables, sliced potatoes cooked with tomatoes and onion.
After this little lot you will probably need a bit of a break before moving onto dessert. Enjoy the belly dancer and live oriental music before moving onto a delicious dessert of basbousa, kanafa, rice pudding and more!
Finish off your meal with a nice glass of mint tea and a shisha (water pipe).
Delicious

Favorite Dish: Everything!
Yet to try the restaurant on a non-buffet night!

This resto is right across the Luxor Temple exit, you ought to see it's bright yellow sign and it's right beside the only McDonald's in town. Western visitors eat in either of these 2 places a lot that the city has provided them their very own police detail. Snack Time serves pizza, pasta, panini, wraps, baguettes, desserts, shawarma, falafel, sandwiches, etc. so there are more choices than McDonalds...cheaper too. Instead of McDonald's, why not eat something different this time? They've also got a free delivery service.

Favorite Dish: Their falafel sandwich is tasty, filling and very affordable, just 5 LE (or US$ 1).

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I can't comment a food as I haven't tryed it.
We stoped here for lunch but I was so exosted from the heat that i couldn't eat. The food looked ok, though.
I had a few cold drinks, the rest and fantastic views:)

Anubis is ancient Egypt's god of death - and nothing could be more appropriate to describe food prices at this restaurant than deadly - no, not the actual quantum, but relative to the quality of food. Ghastly sounds too harsh, I would prefer to use less-than-mediocre, especially the food served in their regular buffets. The chicken tasted like salted paper, the vegetables, freshness washed down by the "inundation of the Nile" across the street.

The café, which is the in-house restaurant of the Luxor Museum seems to thrive on package tourists who didn't seem to have any choice since lunch here was part of the package. Most probably the package tour operators are in cahoots with the restaurant's owners/managers? And with a captive market, just don't care about the quality of food served here? I was traveling solo so I did have a choice, except that it was just too hot to look for another place to have lunch. Lesson learned.