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Cairo Restaurants

Abou El Sid

3 reviews | Write a review

Good for: food ok

Not good for: atmosphere, customer service

  • Address
    • 157 Sharia 26th of July
  • Phone
    • 2 2735 9640
  • Price
    • mezze E£12-25, mains E£25-70
  • Hours
    • noon-2am

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Lonely Planet review for Abou El Sid

Cairo’s first hipster Egyptian restaurant, Abou El Sid is as popular with tourists as it is with upper-class natives looking for a taste of their roots – Omar Sharif has been known to savour the chicken with molokhiyya (stewed leaf soup), but you can also enjoy a sugar-cane-and-tequila cocktail at the big bar, or a postprandial sheesha. It’s all served amid hanging lamps, kitschy gilt ‘Louis Farouk’ furniture and fat pillows. The entrance is on the west side of the Baehler’s Mansions complex; look for the tall wooden doors. There’s another branch in Mohandiseen, on Midan Amman ( [tel] 3749 7326). Reservations are a must.

 

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    Awful awful awful!

    smitsy23 does not recommend this,

    Staff extremely rude, sexist, and food was not good enough to warrant the treatment we got. Atmosphere smoky and dingy.

    Good for: food ok

    Not good for: atmosphere, customer service

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    Good food, atmosphere

    dmkostial recommends this,

    Great food and atmosphere. Recommend the fried eggplant (aubergine) as a mezze. Hard to find since not much of a sign, but local shopkeepers will point you in the right direction.

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    just excellent

    cbcool recommends this,

    The place was superb, great music, prices, decoration, shisha at the end, best recommended!!

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