Egyptian restaurants in Nile Valley
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Sofra
Sofra remains our favourite restaurant in Luxor. Located in a 1930s house, away from all the tourist tat, it is as Egyptian as can be, in menu and decor, and even in price. The ground floor has three private dining rooms and a salon, giving the feeling of being in someone’s home. There is also a wonderful rooftop terrace, which is also a cafe, where you can come for a drink. The house is filled with antique oriental furniture, chandeliers and traditional decorations, all simple but cosy and very tasteful. The menu is large, featuring all the traditional Egyptian dishes, such as stuffed pigeon and excellent duck, as well as a large selection of salads, dips (E£4) and mezze…
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Jamboree Restaurant
A small British-run restaurant, Jamboree serves international fare in its small, rather undistinct dining room or much better, upstairs on a pleasant roof terrace. Lunchtime dishes are limited to good homemade sandwiches and snacks. The menu includes filled jacket potatoes, pastas and the traditional, perhaps not so authentic, Egyptian dishes.
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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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Grand Restaurant & Café
A favourite with tour groups, the Grand has a pleasant terrace for mezze and sheesha. It's located just off Sharia Khalid ibn al-Walid.
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Restaurant Mohammed
With an outdoor terrace and laid-back atmosphere, Mohammed’s is the perfect place to recharge batteries in the middle of a day exploring temples and tombs, or to linger in the evening. This is a family affair, the restaurant being attached to the owner’s mudbrick house; the charming Mohammed Abdel Lahi serves with his son Azab, while his wife cooks. The menu is small but includes meat grills, delicious chicken and duck as well as stuffed pigeon, served with fries and excellent simple salads. Stella beer is available (E£10) and Egyptian wine. They can organise a picnic in the desert or on a felucca upon demand. Call ahead.
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Tutankhamun Restaurant
This top-floor restaurant was the first one here on the riverside just south of the local ferry dock and it’s still going strong. Hagg Mahmoud was a former cook at one of the French archaeological missions, and he and his sons are still cooking excellent tagen s , duck à l’orange, chicken with rosemary and other good dishes. The food is served on the great rooftop terrace with views of the Nile. Very good vegetarian dishes.
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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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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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Banana Island Restaurant
The main restaurant of the Aton Hotel is year-round dependable for friendly service and good Egyptian cuisine, from lentil soup and grills to hot bread-and-milk pudding. Alcohol is served. If the weather is good, the outdoor terrace grill makes a good alternative, though not everyone will enjoy the widescreen TV.
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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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Africa Restaurant
On the right just up the hill from the ferry landing, the popular Africa Restaurant, with a large outdoor terrace, serves simple but good Egyptian food - grilled meat, poultry or fish, accompanied by rice, vegetables and salad. A Stella can usually be conjured up.
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Kebabgy
Good solid Egyptian fare including kebab, kofta and tagens (stews) and the usual selection of salads and dips, served on a delightful terrace right on the Nile, with simple wooden tables and a mist machine to cool down on a hot day.
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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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Tout Ankh Amon Restaurant
With rooftop views of the Nile, and a pergola of grapes, this is a good place to try traditional meat dishes cooked in clay pots. The restaurant has a signboard, although the outdoor staircase doesn't look too inviting.
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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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Al-Noba Restaurant
A little way south of the service-taxi station, Al-Noba is the only sit-down eatery in this part of town and the only items on the menu are soup followed by a quarter chicken served with rice and vegetables.
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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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Koshari Elzaeem
Popular kushari restaurant that also serves an Egyptian version of spaghetti (E£8 to E£15). There are a few tables but they fill up fast.
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Casablanca Sweet Restaurant
Come here for savoury fiteer (Egyptian pancakes), pizzas (though nothing to do with the Italian variety) and sweet crepes.
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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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Kushari Galal
This is the most reliable carbohydrate intake place in town – delicious, convenient and open late.
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Sayyida Zeinab
This tiny but spotless place is one of Luxor’s best kushari joints. Takeaway only.
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Restaurant Prince
Restaurant Prince serves meals of soup, chicken, kofta and vegetables.
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Restaurant Hamdi
Restaurant Hamdi serves meals of soup, chicken, kofta and vegetables.
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