Ahram Online answers the question of: where to eat for Iftar during Ramadan 2012 with details on the menu, pricing and phone numbers for our readers' convenience. Send any Ramadan menus to this email: artedalia.egypt [at] gmail.com.
Lino’s Coffee
Ramadan Buffet:
Saturdays: kebab, turkey kofta, shish tawook, rice, pasta with tomato sauce, grilled vegetables, potatoes spiced with oregano, yoghurt dip, tahine, tabouleh, Greek salad, beledy salad
Sundays: picatta with mushroom, kofta, chicken panne, rice, macaroni with cardamom and mushrooms, grilled vegetables with special potatoes spiced with oregano and rosemary, grilled fish filet with lemon sauce
Mondays: okra with veal, turkey kofta, grilled chicken, rice, baked macaroni, grilled vegetables with potatoes el roostoo spiced with oregano and rosemary, fried fish filet
Tuesdays: kobeiba, breaded kofta, chicken with cardamom and mushrooms, rice, macaroni with red sauce, grilled vegetables with potatoes el roostoo spiced with oregano and rosemary, grilled fish fillet with lemon sauce
Wednesday: picatta with mushrooms, turkey kofta, shish tawooq, rice, macaroni with cardamom and mushrooms, grilled vegetables with special potatoes, spiced with oregano and rosemary, fried fish filet
Thursday: Okra with meat, kofta pannee, chicken with mushrooms, rice with sh3reya, baked macaroni, vegetables, grilled fish in lemon sauce
Friday: meat kobeiba, grilled kofta, grilled chicken, rice, macaroni in tomato sauce, grilled vegetables with special potatoes spiced with oregano and rosemary, fried fish filet
Includes traditional Ramadan drinks, soups and oriental pastries, Om Ali with nuts and fruits
Address: 33 Abu El Feda (in the food court on the Nile side of Abu El Feda)
Tel: 01117117720
Cairo Kitchen
Ramadan Menu
Appetizers: spinach sambouseq, meat sambouseq, cheese spring rolls, kobeiba, mixed stuffed vegetables
Traditional Ramadan drinks, as well as sobia, dates with milk, mint rosewater
Desserts: vermicelli or rice pudding, apricot ginger pudding, khoshaf, Egyptian sweets
Meal items differ depending on the day, please see the Cairo Kitchen blog or Facebook page for the list of dates
Soups: vermicelli beef, chicken lisan asfour, lentil, tomato coriander, chicken cream
Salads: mixed pickles, baladi salad, labnah with walnuts, spinach tahineh, green beans, spicy potato, Egyptian coleslaw, couscous, mixed greens with grated carrots and beetroot, bessara, eggplant fattah, potato salad, belila, mixed greens with grated carrots and beetroot, coriander hummus, pumpkin salad, spicy potatoes
Main: Well-being koshary, potato cubes with kofta, chicken lentil fattah, molokhiya with chicken, rice kofta with vermicelli, okra with beef, fereeq with chicken liver, chicken sharkasia, mombar with rice and meat, moussaka with minced meat, chicken lentil fattah, green beans with chicken kofta, veal cubes, roasted chicken with potatoes and peppers, oven-baked zucchini with béchamel sauce, artichoke with veal and carrots
Address: 118, 26th of July St.. Entrance on El Aziz Osman St. (Zamalek)
Tel: 27354000/9000
Tutti Matti
Sohour
LE45
White cheese, Gouda, foul, falafel, yoghurt, pickles
Two eggs cooked to your taste: boiled, omelet, scrambled, sunny side up, over easy
Choice of toppings: onions, mushrooms, red and green peppers, chees, pastrami
Tutti Matti has a special a la carte Ramadan menu, with some fancier items such as stuffed mushrooms, veal liver with rosemary, etc, as well as more of the traditional items
Also special for Ramadan is the addition of shisha and traditional Ramadan drinks
Note: Their balcony is popular and gets full quickly - get there early.
Address: 49 Road 9, cadycorner MacDonald’s (Maadi)
Tel: 0227507750
Fairmont Heliopolis & Towers
My Kind of Place
Buffet menus cost LE195
Each includes:
Traditional Ramadan juices and sweets, Turkish delight-style pastries, sliced fresh fruit
Babaganoug, hummus, moutable, tabouleh, raheb, mogadara, mohamara, labneh, tehina, yoghurt with cucumber, dolmades, besara, green beans with olive oil
Assorted oriental pickles and olives fresh and marinated salads, potato salad, vegetables marinated salad, tuna salad fried cauliflower salad, fish finger salad, pickled eggplant, lettuce, carrot, tomato, pepper & cucumber with Dressings: herb vinaigrette, lemon vinaigrette, olive oil mint yoghurt, mustard dressing
Cheese sambousk, kobaba, fatayer
Buffet Menu 1
Appetizers (see above)
Egyptian yellow lentil soup, clear chicken with vermicelli
Spicy chicken liver, lemon garlic lamb sausage
Main: Arabic chicken birihani, fatah with veal knuckles, sea bass sayadia with roasted pine seeds, Egyptian lamb fatah with vinegar and garlic tomato sauce, turkey picatta mushroom sauce, Macaroni al forno, roasted duck with rokak, tajin okra with coriander tomato sauce, traditional mixed grill (chicken kabab, lamb kofta), roasted lamb leg with saffron rice and gravy
Buffet Menu 2
Appetizers (see above)
Lisan asfour soup, roasted almond cream of chicken
Garlic lemon lamb sausage
Main: Selection of seafood butter lemon sauce, chicken sharkasia, beef medallion with pepper sauce, lamb tajen with mushroom sauce, mixed dolmades, grilled vegetables & penne with tomato sauce, roqaq with tripe, fatah with veal meat, molokheya, traditional mixed grill (chicken kebab, lamb kofta), khalta rice, roasted veal leg with basmati rice, kobeiba
Buffet Menu 3
Appetizers (see above):
Lisan asfour soup, roasted almond cream of chicken soup
Garlic lemon lamb sausage
Main: selection of seafood, butter lemon sauce, chicken sharkasia, beef medallion with pepper sauce, lamb tajin with mushroom sauce, mixed dolmades, grilled vegetables and penne with tomato sauce, roqaq with tripe, fatah with veal meat, molokheya, traditional mixed grill (chicken kebab and lamb kofta) with khalta rice, roasted veal leg with basmati rice, kobeiba
MeshMeshia at Jasmine
Sohour
Address: Farimont Heliopolis & Towers on Salah Selim, on the airport road
All include
Tea or coffee and traditional Ramadan drinks
Desserts: fresh fruit slice
oriental pastry & Ramadan sweets
Cold appetizers: Hummus, labneh, mixed pickles, motabel, fattoush green salad, cucumber, tomato, green and black olives, plain yoghurt,
assortment of cheeses
Cold appetizers: kebbah, cheese and spinach sambouseq, foul with condiments,
boiled eggs or omelet,
falafel
Sohour 1
LE140
Cold appetizers as mentioned above
Hot appetizers as mentioned above
Sohour 2
LE180
Cold appetizers as mentioned above, plus choice of fruit yoghurt
Hot appetizers as mentioned above
Main dishes: Mixed grill (kebab, kofta, shish tawouq) and rice and grilled vegetables
Sohour 3
LE210
Cold appetizers as mentioned above, plus choice of fruit yoghurt
Hot appetizers as mentioned above
Main dishes: Chicken shawerma, mixed grill (kebab, kofta, shish tawouq) and rice and grilled vegetablesTel: 16989
Address: Salah Salem, Airport Road
Cairo Tower VIP Restaurant
Ramadan Menu
Sunday and Monday: Italian vegetable soup, mozzarella cheese and tomatoes, spaghetti with red sauce, chicken breasts
Tuesday and Thursday: Italian vegetable soup, marinated tuna with garlic mayonnaise with toast, penne with tomatoes and red pepper, fried fish filet with tomato sauce and sautéed potatoes
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: fettuccini soup with meat, vegetable or meat lasagna, escalope pane
All menus come with Turkish delight-style desserts and traditional Ramadan drinks
Note: Get a coupon through DarenDeal: pay LE140 instead of LE280 for Iftar Menu
Tel: 0227365112
Sequoia
Ramadan Menu
LE 245 all inclusive per person
Open buffet with 12 corners; Egyptian, Moroccan, Lebanese, Italian, French, grilled, salads, hot mezza, cold mezza, desserts, beverages, soups:
Hot and cold drinks and Ramadan juices
Sohour (9pm - 3:00 am)
LE150.00 minimum charge (everyday)
A la carte menu featuring special Ramadan desserts, beverages and shisha
Note: No kids allowed during sohour
Address: The beginning of Abu El Feda Street, Zamalek Corniche
Tel: 0227350014
Tabouleh
All items a la carte, but they added the following Ramadan items to their menu:
Fried kebda yoghurt sauce, okra with meat with white rice, meat fatah, molokheyya, kofta with tomato and onion, potato with white sauce and meat, Daoud basha kofta, with tomato sauce, Jordanian food
Note: Sohour is a la carte as well, open until 3am
Tel:27925261
Address: 1 Latin America St., next to Canadian embassy
Casper & Gambini Delivery Menu
Three different menus, LE120 each
Menu 1
Lentil soup, deep-fried calamari, goat chees and raspberry salad, mixed grill, roasted vegetables and saffron rice with mushroom gravy sauce
Menu 2
Chicken vegetable soup, Gambini’s mozzarella, CG special salad, deep fried chicken escalope & creamy fettuccini pasta
Menu 3
Seafood minestrone soup, vegetable spring rolls, almost Caesar salad, oven-roasted chicken , cheesy mashed potatoes, gravy butter jus and vegetables
Each menu comes with your choice of deli desserts and your choice of traditional Ramadan drinks
Bonus: With every delivery order, get a shisha or dessert coupon on the house
Tel: Nile City Towers 022461.9199
Tel: Mall of Arabia 012.2666.8880
Notes: This year they do not have a dine-in Ramadan menu, Also: City Stars does not deliver
Swiss Club
You can go a la carte, or pick from one of six menus, ranging from LE80, to LE130
All include a soup, salad or dip, main dish with a heavy side dish and dessert; the more expensive choices also include an appetizer
Note: Please order group menus 48 hours in advance
Menu LE180
Vegetable soup, small salad, macaroni béchamel with minced meat, ¼ grilled boneless chicken, rice pudding
Menu 2 LE100
Vermicelli soup, pickles, beef fatah, roqaq with minced meat, zucchini, ammar eddin
Menu 3 LE110
Lisan asfour, beladi salad, ¼ grilled boneless chicken, okra tajin with meat, white rice, om ali
Menu 4 LE120
Lentil soup, mixed oriental dips, beef tajin with couscous, shish tawok, torli, fruits jelly
Menu 5 LE130
Tomato soup, tahina, spring roll, kobeiba, mixed grill (1 kofta, 1 shish tawok, 1 shish kebab), steamed vegetables, white rice, konafa
Menu 6 LE130
Lisan asfour, pickled eggplant, sambousek, rabbit with molokheyya, vegetarian lasagna, white rice, Turkish delight-style pastries
Note: This is not a restaurant per se, but rather an activities club. Food is served in a large, casual grassy patio area.
Address: El Gihad Street, just off of Sudan Street in Imbaba, directly after Aguza
Tel: 0223314281;1, 0103009695
Steak Time
Regular menu, with Ramadan additions:
Salads, soups, and desserts, om ali, and eight new items everyday
Address: No.16 Mohamed Kamel Morsi Street off of Batal Ahmed Abdel Aziz Street
, Mohandessein
Tel: 01140555782
Note: Closes at 1:00am, no Sohour. Also: Get a coupon through DarenDeal: LE80 instead of LE160
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