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8 Hidden and Authentic Restaurants in Cairo

January 5, 2015

By Tanya El Kashef, Community Times Eating at a restaurant certainly doesn’t have to be a luxurious event, however, it should aim to be a satisfying and considerably nourishing one; if you’re lucky, the experience may prove to be a little bit educational as well. Setting out to discover exciting meals that come in unlikely packages, our hunt turned an impressive collection of unassuming eateries that deliver tasty, and more importantly, truly authentic meals.  Unlike many upscale restaurants that are filled with fusion and mixed menus, the following locations offer nothing but genuinely cooked meals, designed to leave your belly full, nourished, and (hopefully) content. Desoke Cuisine: Egyptian Desoke, which would be more correctly spelled, Desouky, can be found tucked away in a small alley between 26th of July and Sayed El Bakry Streets in Zamalek.  Relatively inconspicuous, the restaurant is essentially made up of a kitchen that’s embedded in a wall and a few tables set up on the pavement across from it. Laid out with simple yet pleasant flowered plastic tablecloths, the tables are laid with neatly placed water glasses and dice-shaped salt and pepper shakers, tingeing the…


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