Ad Duqqi Restaurants

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This new restaurant has a local flavour. The seating is low with low tables that I found awkward because my legs couldn't get under the table. The decor is brown and cream chequered, the ceiling brown imitation mashrabiya. Carpets are on the floor and the waiter wears local dress.
The clientele when we were there was almost equal local and foreign.
The first thing we were given was a drink of some fruit, and a plate of bread and salad. We then perused the menu. All dishes were local Egyptian from salad, soup [including lentil], molochiya with rabbit, okra, grilled chicken, kofta and many many more.

Favorite Dish: I loved the grilled chicken on browned rice. My husband praised his lentil soup and the creamy rice dessert topped with nuts. Our meal cost £EGY 130

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This is another new restaurant in Michel Bakhoum St , Duqqi.

You enter through an old-looking wooden door and follow a black brick road. On the red 'pavement' are tables with black glass tops, and chairs with red covers. The waiters wear black with red aprons. The walls are decorated with posters, traffic lights, and house numbers.
The menu is very classy with photos of the dishes.
Service is good. First a basket of garlic bread is brought, and then huge plates full of food, that I personally was unable to finish. The portion of chicken was perhaps slightly meagre..

Favorite Dish: I had chicken and mushroom penne pasta which was delicious- but caused me indigestion later ;though at the time the cheese was not noticebly overly strong.
Husband had peppered fillet steak, again so tasty.

Chicken dishes are in the 20 Egyp. £ range, steak from 50-90£Egy, salad bar is 22£Egy and soups about £15Egy.

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This branch of the international chain of coffee shops is new in Duqqi. On the ground floor are 3 or 4 tables looking out on to busy Mossadek Street. We sat here, but there is more upstairs. It is clean and new and the service is good.
A few newspapers are placed in a rack for customers to browse through.
Opening hours are from 7am -2am

Favorite Dish: I had the hot chocolate @11.50 Egy Pounds but without the trimmings.
My husband had cappucino for the same price. Both were good.

This is a new restaurant opened in 2004. It is stylish and the staff are very helpful and friendly. Service is good- but so far there are few customers. We were given a free drink and free dessert to encourage our custom.
The food was plentiful, and we were given a doggy-bag to take home what we couldn't finish.
Although a bit expensive by Egyptian standards, a Greek Salad, pasta dish and cappucino plus service charge of 12% came to about $5 . We paid 97 Egyptian pounds for the two of us.

Update October 2009: This restaurant has now closed down, and the site is empty.

Favorite Dish: The mixed cheese and garlic bread selection is out of this world.
The crepe with chocolate sauce and ice cream was superb too.
And I couldn't fault the pasta, nor my husband the pizza.

On our second visit it was still quite empty, and the bread selection was not so good, but when I said so, we got it free.

This time we went for escalope cordon bleu. Delicious but had to take half of it home. My husband ploughed through his Beef Strogonoff which was very rich. Both were a visual as well as tasty treat.
We'll be back.

UPDATE : In June 2008 on our return we found the cafe had closed down, and had been replaced by another establishment.

The restaurant is one of those dimly lit local cafes where people meet to play board games like draughts and backgammon, smoke shisha, and have a snack.
The smell of the shisha is attractive, if you like it, or else can be a turn off if smoke annoys you.

I have been there when there has been a violinist playing in the background. The cafe is on two levels, one ostensibly for women or families.

UPDATE : In June 2008 on our return we found the cafe had closed down, and had been replaced by another establishment.

Favorite Dish: I like the desserts like rice pudding , creme caramel and Umm Ali. In fact I sometimes ordered them when I was having a dinner party.
My own favourite is Umm Ali , which is a dish of small pieces of pastry soaked in a milk mixture with mixed nuts, raisins and coconut flakes. It is delicious, especially when served straight from the oven, slightly burned, in a pottery dish.

A dish costs 8 Egyptian pounds, just over a dollar US.

This is a shawarma place where you can either have a takeaway or a plate. It can be quite busy so that you may have a short wait, as it is very popular because the food is so good..

Favorite Dish: The chicken shawarma is tastly, but I think I prefer the beef shawarma, which comes with some pickles and just has the edge over the chicken. Both are good and come in a crispy wrap.

One wrap filled with the delicious shaved meat costs the equivalent of 1$US, or 7 Egypt. pounds.

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This restaurant is usually very busy at lunchtime and in the evenings. It is not brightly lit inside , but has a lot of interesting old prints, objects and posters on display. The service is very good, and the helpings are enormous, and very rich.

Favorite Dish: I've tried many of the main dishes and salads [Greek salad and also the tomato and mozarella salad]. All have been excellent. Last time I wanted something lighter so asked for Pasta negresca which was penne baked in a sauce with chicken and mushroom. I couldn't finish it as there was so much, and it was delicious and freshly cooked. My husband had pizza napoli [ with anchovies] and he devoured the lot, except a slice which he passed on to me to try.

It cost us less than 10 dollars.
A main dish of meat, fish or chicken costs between 30-45 Egyptian pounds.

Peking Chinese Chain of Restaurants, with 12 branches throughout Cairo and one branch in Sharm El Sheikh.
In 1963 the first Peking Restaurant was established by a
group of Chinese families, settled in Cairo from various
provinces of China.
The largest(I have visited)is the one in Zamalek area.which offers live music on certain days of the week(check with the restaurants for further information and reservations).

Favorite Dish: Chicken BBQ.,but almost everything in the menu is very good.
Let me give you a tip,,they serve small portions,so you might need to double your order ;-)