Travel The City Of A Thousand Minarets - Cairo Eating Out In Cairo: 
Egypt offers a great variety of food now, apart from the favuorite Egyptian staples, Lebanese and Turkish, Indian, Thai, French, Italian, Japanese, and others are also available. In general, downtown is good for budget eating, while for higher quality eating you should head to Zamalek, Mohandiseen or any of the other more affluent parts of town. Most of the best restaurants, frequented by visitors and also upper class local citizens belong to the big star rated hotels. Cheap food can be found everywhere in street restaurants and snack stalls. The top notch restaurants are often, but not always, found in hotels and Nile boats. Quality chain restaurants like Felfela (several outlets), Abou El Sid (Zamalek, Maadi and Dokki), and Abou Shakra offer authentic Egyptian food. Otherwise Arabic and oriental restaurants tend to mix styles or completely go for more Lebanese-style eating, considered more stylish by rich Cairenes. The good side of this is that Cairo is blessed with many quality Lebanese outfits, from chains like Dar Al-Qamar to stylish restaurant establishments. Additionally, Turkish food and restaurants catering to Gulf visitors can be found.
 One of the most mention worthy restaurant is the Revolving Restaurant on the 41st floor of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, from where one can watch the beautiful sunset and the entire city of Cairo below. International fare like Japanese, Italian, Indian are available along with seafood specialities.
For more authentic Egyptian fare one can visit the Khan El-Khalili Restaurant set in the middle of the Khan-el-khalili market, an ideal place for a midday break from shopping. The Naguib Mahfouz Coffee Shop, which offers light meals and snacks, is named after Egypt’s Nobel prize-winning novelist, who set many of his works in this area.
Cairo has a growing number of Western fast food outlets available.  Lighter meals like sandwiches and salads as well as pastries can be found in western-style bakeries and cafes. Popular chains like Cilantro, Beanos, Costa, and The Marriott Bakery as well as individual outlets all offer more or less similar dishes.
Cairo has a wide range of drinking options from the very traditional to fashionable and modern. At the other end of the scale, almost any street in Cairo has a traditional coffee house, Žahwa, a traditionally male institution of social life tracing many hundreds of years back in history. Besides that you'll find everything from fruit stalls to patisseriés and bakeries and modern cafés whipping up all varieties of modern European coffee. In addition to the traditional Turkish coffee and shai tea, virtually everywhere you'll find drinks like hibiscus tea kerkedeeh, served warm or cold depending on season, sahleb, a coconut drink usually served in winter, fakhfakhenna (a kind of fruit salad), sugarcane juice, mango and tamarind juice, Tamr hindi. The Turkish coffee remains an invariable ingredient in any Cairene coffee house, and water pipe (sheesha) and tea is even more popular.
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