Bite Me Cairo: Smooth sailing
What I learned from my successive visits though, was that what La Vela does best is prepare down-home Italian fare.
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Bite Me Cairo: Once upon a time
Since then I have visited this sleek lounge/restaurant a half dozen times (and paid my bills, thank you), I have my answers, and I am ready to write.
Bite Me Cairo: And so it goes
Consistency is always the issue, and while some restaurants have reached new heights, others continue to fight the downhill slide into mediocrity
Bite Me Cairo: Good days, bad days
More often than not comment cards are read carefully and you help the business and the dining community when you provide an honest, balanced appraisal.
Bite Me Cairo: Left Bank
Can you eat in Cairo the way you eat in New York or London?
Bite Me Cairo: Donburi
In Japan donburi means bowl or rice bowl dish and in Cairo Donburi is a new Japanese restaurant at City Stars. The creation of Japanophile Mido Barsoum, it brings authentic Japanese street food to Egypt for the first time.
Bite Me Cairo: Europe By The Sea
It was time to take a break from Egypt, so her royal self and I decided a week in El Gouna was in order. This orange and white holiday village on the Red Sea, just north of Hurghada is, geographically, part of this country, but that is where the connection begins and ends. When I …
Bite Me Cairo: Of Mice and Men
If youâve been following my column these past few weeks youâll know that this is something that has been on my mind lately. Call it an existential crisis. Why do I do this? Do I know what Iâm doing? Does it serve any purpose? How long before my belt breaks?
Bite Me Cairo: The Best of the Best – Part 2
Many hire random amateur freelancers who think that spring rolls are a seasonal dish and canât tell their head cheese from their aspic. Worse, some of these sites rely upon civilians to do their reviewing for them. This leads to some truly bizarre suggestions.
Bite Me Cairo: The Best of the Best – Part 1
The best in town!
Bite Me Cairo: Fit For A King
Stories of king Farouk’s breakfasts
Bite Me Cairo: Something Fishy
Over time I came to realise that some people were simply so used to eating low-grade fish that when faced with the real thing they mistook it for being off. Such myths and misconceptions are boundless in the restaurant business.
Bite Me Cairo: Seoul Food
There are some great restaurants here but over time I discovered that what Maadi does better than anywhere else in Cairo is Asian food thanks to the large Asian community located here.
Bite Me Cairo: Nature vs. Nurture
This common wisdom has been repeated so often in the press that it has become a mantra among those in the slow food movement and also among many rank-and-file foodies, who have in common that they swallow these myths without asking the necessary questions.
Bite Me Cairo: Trio (Part 2) – The Food
The meat is ground fresh on the premises daily and blended with caramelized balsamic onion, roasted garlic and egg yolk. Perfection on a soft, buttery bun. Topped with homemade pickles, fresh tomatoes and lettuce, Hernandezâs aioli of sweet and sour dill with chilies, black pepper and pickle juice put this one over the top.
Bite Me Cairo: Trio (Part I) – The Chef
If youâve seen the film Food, Inc. (2008)âand if you havenât, you shouldâyouâll know that industrial farming is ruining the food chain. The health and welfare of the planet, unchecked by government regulations, is being held hostage to corporate greed. Itâs up to us to stop it. Not through petitions or demonstrations, rather, we should …
Bite Me Cairo: Four Thumbs Up
My youngest was born a foodist, a trait she happily developed in gleeful opposition to her food-averse sister as she instinctively sought out an unoccupied niche in the family culture.
Bite Me Cairo: Home Savoury Home
The place is always packed with Koreans and under such circumstances I always try to eat what the locals are eating. I simply asked the kitchen manager for dinner for six, which worked out beautifully as it always does.
Bite Me Cairo: One more for the road
Still, the school district is making an effort, and even if the kids go on a hunger strike, it is preferable to the fast food made available to high school and college students in so many schools, including in Egypt.
Bite Me Cairo: Slow Food
Itâs all about being a locavore. Eat what grows where you live. Support your local farming community. Practice sustainability and fair labor practices. Be a good global citizen. Sounds like a good idea, but not everyone agrees on the science and the economics.
Bite Me Cairo: The Shock of the New
One thing America has going for it is supermarkets. For a Cairene, itâs like walking into a museum. The superabundance of everything you couldnât possible need is unnerving.
Bite Me Cairo: âTis the season
The original Abdel Wahab in Achrafieh (Beirut) serves some of the best Lebanese food Iâve ever had, but when a one-of-a-kind place goes chainâit now has a second branch in Beirut (Monod), one in Riyadh, one in Jeddah, and now one here in Cairoâit usually loses something in translation.