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Places in Greater Cairo

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4 places, each visited by our editors.

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Khufu's
خوفو
Dining · Giza PlateauRemarkable
Best for: New Egyptian cooking beside the Great Pyramid
Few dining rooms anywhere have a neighbour like the Great Pyramid, and Khufu's makes the most of it without leaning on it. Set within the Giza Plateau, it opened in 2022 under Pier88 Group founder Giovanni Bolandrini, with chef Mostafa Seif, winner of Top Chef Middle East in 2018, in the kitchen. Seif cooks from memories of rural Egypt, refining village dishes rather than disguising them: koshari turned into a cold salad, mulukhiyah with rabbit, stuffed pigeon, mu'ammar rice. Breakfast arrives as a generous composed platter; lunch centres on a set menu. In February 2026 Khufu's became the first Egyptian restaurant named No.1 at MENA's 50 Best. Service runs by day only; evenings belong to its sister, Khufu's Bistro.

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Places · 4
Khufu'sDining · Giza Plateau●●●New Egyptian cooking beside the Great PyramidOpen now3D tour →
Khufu's BistroDining · Giza Plateau●●●●Candlelit dinner facing the pyramidsClosed now3D tour →
Pier88 Nile RiverDining · Zamalek●●●Italian dinner on a Zamalek bargeOpen now3D tour →
Pier88 Pyramid HillsDining · Giza Plateau●●●Italian dinner with pyramid viewsClosed now3D tour →
What's on · 15
D-CAF: Downtown Contemporary Arts FestivalOn now · 11 October – 1 November · Rawabet, Falaki Theater, Beit Tulun and other Downtown spaces · Downtown
Arab Music Festival & Conference20 – 30 October · Cairo Opera House · Zamalek
Longines Global Champions Tour at the Pyramids22 – 24 October · Show-jumping arena in front of the Giza Pyramids · Giza Plateau
Crafts Re-Imagined23 October – 8 November · Bayt Al-Suhaymi, Al-Muizz Street · Islamic & Old Cairo
Fatma Said in Concert at the Grand Egyptian Museum29 October · Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza · Giza Plateau
Forever Is Now4 – 28 November · Pyramids of Giza · Giza Plateau
Cairo International Jazz Festival5 – 7 November · Venue to confirm · Greater Cairo
Cairo International Film Festival11 – 20 November · Cairo Opera House · Zamalek
HYROX Cairo14 – 15 November · Egypt International Exhibition Center, Hall 4, New Cairo · New Cairo
Cairo Design Week19 – 28 November · Heritage landmarks and creative venues · Greater Cairo
Shakira at the Pyramids28 November · Pyramids of Giza · Giza Plateau
Marakez Pyramids Half Marathon11 – 12 December · Giza Pyramids plateau · Giza Plateau
Cairo International Short Film Festival16 – 21 December · Cairo Opera House · Zamalek
Cairo International Book Fair 2027 (58th edition)21 January – 3 February 2027 · Egypt International Exhibition Center, Fifth Settlement, New Cairo · New Cairo
Zamna Giza: 10th Anniversary World Tour21 – 23 May 2027 · Giza desert near the Pyramids · Giza Plateau
News · 23
October 2026Latin kitchen Chicha is building a second Cairo branch in New CairoScene Eats · New Cairo
October 2026Bascota opens a farm-to-table bakery at District 5 in New CairoScene Eats · New Cairo
October 2026Cairo Food Week's fourth edition brings Manu Buffara and Bo Bech to Cairo kitchensScene Eats · Greater Cairo
October 2026Egyptian Clothing Bank's upcycling show turns donated garments into designEgyptian Streets · Downtown
October 2026Art D'Égypte names a women-led artist line-up for Forever Is Now 06 at the pyramidsFlair Magazine · Giza Plateau
October 2026First 16 floor pieces of Khufu's second solar boat installed at the Grand Egyptian MuseumDaily News Egypt · Giza Plateau
September 2026The Grand Egyptian Museum nears four million visitorsEgypt Today · Giza Plateau
September 2026Yehia El-Fakharany's King Lear passes 200 shows at Cairo's National TheatreEgyptian Streets · Downtown
September 2026Spanish-Egyptian team uncovers a Fifth Dynasty judge's tomb at SaqqaraDaily News Egypt · Greater Cairo
September 2026Cairo Airport plans a 40-million-passenger Terminal 4Egyptian Streets · Heliopolis
July 2026Cairo Airport pilots a QR-code visa on arrival to replace the paper stickerEgyptian Tourism Authority (PR Newswire) · Heliopolis
July 2026New Cairo's Kempinski becomes Kempinski Palace CairoHospitality Net · New Cairo
July 2026The Grand Egyptian Museum caps daily visits at 15,000Ahram Online · Giza Plateau
June 2026Nobu opens in New Cairo, its first restaurant in the capitalEgyptian Streets · New Cairo
June 2026Near-complete funerary cache found in the tomb of Panehsi in Matariya, ancient HeliopolisArchaeology Wiki · Greater Cairo
May 2026Jason Statham and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley tour the Giza Pyramids and the GEMAAP · Giza Plateau
May 2026Downtown Cairo's 'Art Street' puts free music and performance on the street every weekendCairo Governorate · Downtown
May 2026Cairo's East Nile Monorail opens to passengersEgyptian Streets · Greater Cairo
March 2026AUC Tahrir CultureFest returns downtown with an AI-themed 'Future C-AI-RO' editionEgyptian Streets · Downtown
February 2026'Beyond Van Gogh' immersive exhibition heads to District 5 in New CairoEgyptian Streets · New Cairo
February 2026Cairo street-food legend El-Prince reopens in Sheikh ZayedEgyptian Streets · Sheikh Zayed
February 2026Khufu's, at the foot of the pyramids, is the best restaurant in the Middle East & North AfricaMENA's 50 Best Restaurants · Giza Plateau
February 2026Cairo International Book Fair breaks its attendance recordArab News · Greater Cairo
Across EgyptNationwide, with no single place on the map.
Coptic Christmas7 January 2027 · Churches nationwide, incl. Old Cairo's Hanging Church · Egypt
Ramadan8 February – 8 March 2027 · Nationwide · Egypt
Eid al-Fitr9 – 11 March 2027 · Nationwide · Egypt
Coptic Easter and Sham el-Nessim2 – 3 May 2027 · Nationwide: parks, gardens and the Nile banks · Egypt
October 2026Egypt ranks third in Africa in the WEF's 2026 travel and tourism indexEgypt Independent · Egypt
October 2026Egypt welcomed 14.4 million visitors in the first nine months of 2026eTurboNews · Egypt
September 2026Amr Diab earns a Guinness World Record for 69 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard ArabiaEgypt Independent · Egypt
September 2026Egypt's visitor numbers rose while the region's fellAhram Online · Egypt

What's on in Greater Cairo

On nowDowntown
D-CAF: Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival
11 October – 1 November · Rawabet, Falaki Theater, Beit Tulun and other Downtown spaces
The 14th edition fills Downtown's theatres, galleries and heritage buildings with performance, film, exhibitions and workshops.
Details →
Zamalek
Arab Music Festival & Conference

Stories from Greater Cairo

October 2026
Latin kitchen Chicha is building a second Cairo branch in New Cairo
The Mexican, Peruvian and Nikkei restaurant from O West, known for its tacos, lamb barbacoa and churros, is fitting out a new space at 5A in New Cairo. There is no opening date yet, but east Cairo diners will soon be much closer to it.
Source: Scene Eats
October 2026
Bascota opens a farm-to-table bakery at District 5 in New Cairo
Amir Fayo's homegrown bakery has a new District 5 branch built around produce from Egyptian farms. It serves bread, pastries, sandwiches and coffee every day from 8:30am to midnight, which makes it a handy all-day stop in east Cairo.
Source: Scene Eats
October 2026
Cairo Food Week's fourth edition brings Manu Buffara and Bo Bech to Cairo kitchens
The ten-day festival put visiting chefs in local kitchens: Brazil's Manu Buffara at Palm Hills One and Denmark's Bo Bech at Mamina's. It also held a dinner at the Grand Egyptian Museum and a finale with Athens bar The Bar in Front of the Bar.
Source: Scene Eats