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                <title>Abou El Sid</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Great restaurant for Egyptian food: trendy, beautiful setting and tasty food. Also ideal for after-dinner relaxing, drinking &amp; smoking shisha.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Road Leisure Cafe</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This cafe in Mohandeseen area has very good Egyptian food. The atmosphere is warm and decor upbeat and attractive.  <br><br>You MUST meet the owner, Mahmoud.  He is very colourful and has a great sense of humour.  He makes you feel like a long lost brother. Enjoy!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Have fun with the family and enjoy the chaos</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[I was in Cairo for a couple of weeks earlier this year. I stayed in the Hilton WTC (World Trade Centre) Residence, which is like a serviced apartment on the Nile. My children, aged 14, 10 and 3, all loved it. They liked the chaos of jumping into cabs and negotiating the fare, almost all of the food and we all liked Khan el-Khalili market. My older kids enjoyed the spectacle of me haggling for stuff and pointing out how badly I was doing. There are a surprising amount of fast food places if you need them and you can get the supermarkets to deliver food and booze to you for a nominal charge. We also had a great time going to the historical sites.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Mena House Oberoi</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[I have stayed there twice. The service is superb - friendly or unobtrusive where appropriate. The main parts of the hotel are overlooked by the pyramids and are evocative of an earlier, more leisurely time. The Indian restaurant is also superb. You can stay with at the Mena House Oberoi with Voyages Jules Verne.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Stuffed pigeon at Farhaat</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is the real Egyptian deal - stuffed pigeon. Eat it at Farhaat in Khan el-Khalili market.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Longchamps Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Situated in a boring and slightly scruffy building, this place is a real find. The three-star Longchamps Hotel is on one of the upper floors and, with two large terraces, is one of the most relaxing places in Cairo. Its decor could be described as a mix of elegant, Bohemian and ethnic. But what most people find surprising is the food. Menus are simple but dishes are invariably delicious to the point of being memorable. If you are looking for somewhere inexpensive, quiet, clean and pleasant to stay in Cairo, this is it.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Rossini</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is the place to eat out in style. Rossini is a sophisticated Italian seafood restaurant in Heliopolis with a piano bar upstairs and a garden at the back. It has great food, excellent cocktails (which are difficult to find in Cairo outside five-star hotels) and top service.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Sangria</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Sangria is a cool restaurant and bar built around an old tree on the banks of the Nile. Enjoy a view of Zamalek from the open terrace, which during winter months is well heated. The cuisine is mostly South-East Asian and the crowd tends to be mainly young and wealthy, judging by the posh cars in the restaurant carpark. It's a great place for a beer.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Swiss Club</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Once the home and garden of a wealthy Swiss businessman, the Swiss Club was donated to the Swiss community of Egypt. Today, however, it is open to all for a small fee, although it tends to be an expat hangout. If the bustle of Cairo becomes too much to bear you can bring your family to this green oasis and enjoy reasonably priced good food and a relaxing atmosphere. Other activities include barbecues, car boot sales and bazaars.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Cairo Jazz Club</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The clue is in the name - it's a smoky jazz club! Sometimes playing jazz (not often), but usually with a band (of sorts) making music. It gets really packed on the weekends so don't even bother trying to order food even if you do manage to get yourselves a table, but it's quiet during the week and the food is worth it. To make sure that you can actually get in, it's usually best to phone beforehand, they can be a bit picky on the door. <br><br>Also, most taxi drivers won't know what you're talking about if you ask them to take you there so make sure you know how to get there yourself or take someone with you that does! All said and done, usually a sterling night out of debauchery and fabulousness.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Cedars restaurant in Mohandessin</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Mohandessin is an area close to Zamalek but on the east bank of the Nile. In general it's a good place to explore, with various cultural centres and cafes. But most importantly, it has the restaurant Cedars, near Lebanon Place - you should absolutely eat there. It's fantastic Lebanese food, the best I've ever had, and probably on a par with some places in Beirut. It's a great big restaurant (be sure to eat on the terrace) and I remember eating so much that I really couldn't move for a couple hours. Truly, it's the best Middle Eastern cuisine I've ever had, and that's saying something.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Cafe de Paris</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Near the American University Cairo (AUC) dorms, there is a great cafe with an outdoor terrace called Cafe de Paris. It's popular with the Zamalek crowd, open late, does good shisha and food. A great, relaxed place to spend an evening.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Abou El Sid</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Abou El Sid is a restaurant close to the Marriot Hotel in Zamalek, popular with the young and hip, middle class, and expats. Try and book a table, sicne it is always busy.<br><br>They do an amazing stuffed pigeon! When you want to treat yourself, go to this place. Pricey for Egyptian standard, but the food is a cut above the rest and much more authentic than in tourist restaurants like the Naguib Mahfouz in the Khan el Khalili market.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Greek Club and Andreas</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The Greek Club and Andreas are two nice restaurants and watering holes in Cairo. The Greek Club, in Midan Talat Harb, is a laid-back place where you drink Stella beer and eat steak and chips with locals.<br><br>Andreas is a bit classier at the northern tip of Zamalek, where you sit under tent-like canopies next to the Nile eating mainly Lebanese fare, smoke sheesha, etc.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Sahlab</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It's an Egyptian drink made with milk, sugar, rosewater and pistachios. Lovely with a shisha tufaah.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Koshari</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A no-frills bowl of lentils, rice, macaroni and fried onions doused in a piquant sauce. Stuff yourself silly for next to nothing. If you’re still peckish after that, finish off with Umm Ali – a delicious and deadly pudding, with a million calories to the mouthful.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Fish restaurant?</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[I remember that in the eighties our host directed us to a fish restaurant which was unknown to tourists, somewhere in the centre and (inside) entirely built in alabaster - wall panels, uplighters, counters ... everything.<br>The fish was incredibly fresh and the service  exquisitely polite (and very formal) - the waiters were in tails and spoke only French and Arabic. We paid a ridiculously small amount for a wonderful  meal. I have long since lost the address, but if anyone knows whether this restaurant still exists, I would love to know.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Mint</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Mint is a great restaurant in Mohandiseen. The atmosphere is brilliant, the international dishes are all cooked perfectly and the decor just finishes the experience off. It is a bit difficult to find but don't give up - it is well worth it.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Abou el Sid</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Oriental atmosphere, with a good range of Egyptian dishes. Go early or book ahead, because it can get full. The hubble-bubble pipes have their own menu, including capuccino flavour.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Gomhouriya</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Unsuitable for vegetarians and squeamish carnivores, Gomhouriya is THE place to eat pigeons. Cheap but spartan. Sample this favourite Egyptian delicacy in what al-Ahram’s restaurant reviewer described as a “Cold War ambiance”.]]></description>
                
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