The top spot in town for shish tawooq (marinated chicken grilled on skewers), Egyptian-style liver and pretty much every other kind of meat you can stick on a grill. There are great salads and mezze to mop up all that meat with as well as tagens (stew cooked in a deep clay pot).
Reda Helmy
Suez Canal
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
0.49 MILES
More than 4000 objects from Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman times are housed in this tiny but interesting museum on the eastern edge of town. The collection…
0.55 MILES
Unfortunately, unless you're a guest of the Suez Canal Authority (the house is its private guesthouse), you can only admire the exterior of the one-time…
0.41 MILES
Just southwest of Ismailia's museum is a garden containing a rather forlorn little sphinx from the time of Ramses II (1279–1213 BC). You need permission…
Nearby Suez Canal attractions
0.41 MILES
Just southwest of Ismailia's museum is a garden containing a rather forlorn little sphinx from the time of Ramses II (1279–1213 BC). You need permission…
0.49 MILES
More than 4000 objects from Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman times are housed in this tiny but interesting museum on the eastern edge of town. The collection…
0.55 MILES
Unfortunately, unless you're a guest of the Suez Canal Authority (the house is its private guesthouse), you can only admire the exterior of the one-time…