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Aswan Restaurants

Al-Makka

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  • Address
    • Sharia Abtal at-Tahrir opposite Ramses Hotel
  • Phone
    • 097 230 3232
  • Price
    • mains E£35-50
  • Hours
    • noon-2am

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Lonely Planet review for 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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    rotten service, rotten food, rotten rip-off.

    holidayeater does not recommend this,

    We expected great things at Al-Makka, it having been recommended by a couple of people during our Aswan stay. But were sadly dissapointed. The place was packed, but only one table occupied by locals, and they may well have been tour guides! They were eating wonderful looking stuff which our waiter indicated was the "special"- lamb chops, veal and chicken, grilled, served with rocket salad, and the normal rice/bread/ salad plates, plus a dish of stewed okra, and another of green beans and other veg. That duly ordered by my partner, I plumped for stuffed pigeon, and lentil soup. The salads arrived promptly, and were rather good, but the bread was stale. The soup was awful, tasted like watered down tinned stuff, and the croutons old, rock solid and greasy. Inedible. Our mains arrived in record speed, no fresh cooking going on here! The grill consisted of about 5 lamb bones with a little charred meat clinging precariously to their ends, garnished elegantly with a handful of potatoe chips, and a pickled onion. When my partner queried the absence of veal, and chicken, he got a smirk and a shrug, followed a couple of minutes later by the arrival of 2 small peices of braised beef, plonked onto his plate with a grunt.The pigeon tasted ok, but was the smallest bird of that ilk ever seen. It hardly merited the term squab. Stuffed with rice, rendering the plate of greasy reheated rice that came seperately redundant.Our vegetable dishes had down graded to rock hard peas in a tomato sauce reminiscent of tomato ketchup, and some white beans in the same gunk. An expensive meal by Aswan standards- we paid more for this meagre offering than for delicious sea food round the corner. Not helped by being charged an arm and a leg for the bottle of water that had been brought to our table as we sat down, and which one might have expected to be complimentary...but we suspected not, and were not disapointed.
    There are plenty of half decent eateries in Aswan....this aint one of them in my opinion.

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