Restaurants in Aswan
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Chef Khalil
Popular fish restaurant, just along from the train station, serving very fresh fish from Lake Nasser and the Red Sea, charged by weight, grilled, baked or fried to your choice and served with salad and rice or French fries. It’s a small place, but worth the wait if it’s full.
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Panorama
With its pleasant Nileside terrace, this is a great place to chill and sip a herbal tea or fresh juice. It also serves simple Egyptian stews cooked in clay pots, with salad, mezze and rice or chips, or an all-day breakfast.
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Al-Masry Restaurant
Popular with meat-eating local families, Al-Masry is famous for its excellent fresh kebabs and kofta, as well as pigeon and chicken, all served with bread, salad and tahini.
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Nubian House
This laid-back Nubian café and restaurant is the place to be at sunset, with spectacular views over the First Cataract. Sit on traditional wooden benches on the huge shady terrace for a mint tea and sheesha (water pipe). To get here, follow the road past the Nubia Museum for about 1km (15 minutes' walk). Take a right just past a development of upmarket housing (many still under construction), or take a taxi after dark.
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1902 Restaurant
Considered Aswan's finest restaurant, and certainly its most formal, this beautifully restored Moorish-style hall is definitely a treat. Dinner is a set four-course French-influenced menu, with a performance by local musicians. Unfortunately here, too, the food doesn't live up to the grandeur of the surroundings at all. Book ahead to reserve a table.
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Salah Ad-Din
This is the best of the Nileside restaurants, with several terraces and a freezing air-conditioned dining room. The menu has Egyptian, Nubian and international dishes, a notch better than most restaurants in Aswan. The service is efficient and the beers are cool (E£12). There is also a terrace to smoke a sheesha.
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Nubian Beach
Wonderful Nubian cafe-restaurant set in a quiet garden on the west bank of the Nile, against the backdrop of a towering sand dune. During the heat of the day or on cold winter nights, there is a beautifully painted room indoors. The food is simple but good, and alcohol is served – sometimes with live Nubian music.
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Sunset
This great cafe terrace and restaurant is the place to be at sunset, with spectacular views over the First Cataract. Sit on the huge shady terrace for a mint tea, or enjoy the small selection of excellent grills or pizzas (E£38). Or take a taxi after dark. Very popular with locals at night.
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Emy
On a double-decked boat moored on the Nile next to the Aswan Moon, this is where the Nubian felucca captains hang out, as it is the only place where cool beers (Sakkara, Stella) are served. The menu includes a selection of salads, Egyptian and international dishes, and excellent fresh juices.
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Biti Pizza
Biti is a popular air-conditioned restaurant that serves good Western-style pizzas, but more recommended are the delicious sweet and savoury fiteer (flaky Egyptian pizza), including the excellent tuna fiteer (E£20) or the fruit-and-nut dessert version (E£18).
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Aswan Moon Restaurant
The once-popular hang-out no longer serves alcohol, but it remains a pleasant place for dinner. The menu ranges from basic Egyptian and international dishes, including mezze (E£8), pizzas (E£25 to E£30) and grills (E£35).
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Golden Pharaoh
The newest arrival is this rather sophisticated eatery with an air-con dining room and a large terrace overlooking the Nile and the city. The menu includes Nubian and international dishes, and the place is already popular with Aswanis.
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Nubian Restaurant
Sitting on a tiny island south of Elephantine Island, the Nubian Restaurant has quite mediocre Nubian food, but does an after-dinner folkloric show, popular with tour groups. A free boat departs opposite Egypt Air.
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Haramein Foul & Ta’amiyya
A tiny takeaway place hidden among the low-rise apartment blocks, this is where Aswanis go when they want good fuul (fava bean paste) and ta’amiyya.
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Madena Restaurant
Small and unpretentious, this no-frills eatery close to the Cleopatra Hotel serves good, basic Egyptian meals at reasonable prices.
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El-Tahrer Pizza
A popular cafe that serves pizza and fiteer at rock-bottom prices. Tea and sheesha (E£5) are also served.
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Koshary Aly Baba Restaurant
A clean and popular takeaway place with good kushari, as well as shwarma and kofta.
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Al-Makka
Popular with meat-eating local families, this place is famous for its excellent fresh kebabs and kofta (mincemeat and spices grilled on a skewer) , as well as pigeon and chicken, all served with bread, salad and tahini.
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