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1. Abou Tarek Koshary Restaurant
- Most famous koshary restaurant in Cairo
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- Middle Eastern
- Local Traditional
- Cheap
- Downtown Cairo
- Nile Expert Tip: One of the most popular and famous Koshary restaurants in Cairo
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2. Zizo's
- Fantastic spicy sausage sarnies
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- Local Traditional
- Cheap
- Islamic Cairo
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3. Fatatri El Tahrir
- Cheap and cheerful Egyptian pizzas
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- Middle Eastern
- Local Traditional
- Affordable
- Downtown Cairo
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4. The Yemen Restaurant
- Finger-licking fantastic traditional Yemeni food
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- Middle Eastern
- Affordable
- Dokki
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5. Pomodoro
- No frills pasta heaven
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- Seafood
- Italian
- Affordable
- Downtown Cairo
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6. Felfela
- Popular chain serving up traditional Egyptian staples
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- Local Traditional
- Affordable
- Downtown Cairo
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7. Touts Express
- Simple Egyptian classics to eat in or go
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- Local Traditional
- Affordable
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8. Taza
- Cheap and cheerful traditional Egyptian food to eat in or take away
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- Local Traditional
- Cheap
- Dokki
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9. Gad
- Cheap and cheerful traditional Egyptian food to stay or go
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- Affordable
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10. Koshary El Tahrir
- Possibly the best koshary in the whole of Cairo
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- Cheap
- Downtown Cairo
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Cairo is brilliant for cheap restaurants - no matter where in the city you are, there will be some sort of cheap eat nearby. Koshary is a typical Egyptian cheap and cheerful filler, a mix of pasta, rice, lentils, chickpeas, onions and tomato salsa. You can get koshary all around the city, but Abou Tarek koshary and Koshary al-Tahrir are two downtown mainstays of the Cairo carb scene.
Zizo's is a Cairo institution, and a cheap one at that. Spicy sogoq (beef sausage) sandwiches are the speciality, though the restaurant also does good liver and other offal, as well as teeth-rottingly tasty halawa and cream sandwiches for dessert! Watch the home-made pickles - they're fiery!
Fatatri al-Tahrir is a traditional feteer house, the Egyptian style pancakes with savoury and sweet fillings. The Yemen Restaurant in Doqqi is a no-frills Yemeni diner serving some of the biggest, tastiest meals in Cairo. Great place to go share a few dishes. Pomodoro is a pasta lover's dream, since they serve nothing but pasta - you pick the meat.
There are loads of restaurants all over Cairo that serve various quick and tasty sandwiches such as falafel, fuul (stewed fava beans) and shawerma (chicken and beef kebabs). Gad is a large chain with branches everywhere and a wide selection. Taza is a smaller chain though just as - if not more - tasty, and Touts Express is well used to dealing with tourists because of all the hotels nearby, and does a great line in fresh juices.
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