Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the most unique Yemeni restaurant of them all? Our Yemeni source tells us this one is the real deal, and you just can't beat the price or the flavor
With several choices in the Dokki/Mohandessin area, Ahram (...)
Actress, singer and Italian citizen, Sarita Marchesi was asked her opinion about Pizza Mia in Zamalek and her green eyes widened and lit up.
"Yes! It is wonderful!"
"It is… " speechless, she searched her mental English dictionary for the right (...)
Tuesday was the first day that Chef Paco from Barcelona whipped up a tapas tasting in the kitchen of Risas Lounge on the Nile Maxim boat and it went down like this:
Chef Paco took it up a notch on the well-known street tapa called montaditos, which (...)
Interesting as both a simple social insight as well as for restaurateurs, Ahram Online compiles some curious habits and preferences about eating out, both internationally and locally.
Did you know that Egyptian women's second-choice restaurant would (...)
The Spanish embassy brings an attraction to the Cairo Opera House, a performance orchestrated by José Barrios called Flamenco Algarabía, which opened here in Cairo with two female singers, a guitarist and Sudanese Wafir S. Gibril on oud.
Early on, (...)
Futureshorts, boasting the largest worldwide pop-up event; screens short films in Maadi on Saturday on an Egyptian couple's honest conversation on sex, a fun biography of an artist, regret and one's place in the world
Peering past the low fence (...)
Clang, bang boom. Pacing pacing, furious pacing. Somewhat anxious faces hovering over their small, colourful, edible creations laid out over a long table. Tall, white hats bobbing everywhere. White uniforms contrast with the steel furniture, (...)
“Yes, I have a restaurant in Egypt. It opened not too long ago,” said the man sitting next to me on the plane from Cairo to Milan, Italy. We had introduced ourselves; his name is Magdy.
“The restaurant is called Cavallini and my partner owns the (...)
The young students of the German school for hospitality in El-Gouna, who are poised to be the next generation of chefs, are undergoing their first certification test that is 100% on par with the test German students take
With one bare, sun-burned, (...)
Rather than the carts or standing-room-only narrow kitchens on the street whose koshary is mixed with fumes and dust, and rather than not having another choice outside of the house-specialty koshary, Cairo Kitchen offers a bright, indoor ambiance (...)
The owner and director of Communicatons Boutique, Sahar El-Arishy, is a marketing guru who speaks in a dictionary of peppy, eloquent, heartfelt buzz words, enthusiastically supporting those with talent and a brilliant idea.
The marketing guru's (...)
The charismatic director and head professor, Swiss-born Mark Iten, lifts both his hands in the air in front of his face and gently rocks them during his interview with Ahram Online, emphatically whispering: “What makes a chef is what they can do (...)
Nermine Said, a theatre major at the American University in Cairo, became fascinated with the magical world of fashion and how it ties the knot with theatre. Costume designing, she realised, was her path. From the time she was an undergraduate, she (...)
"Me and a buddy noticed the lack of Mexican food options in Cairo, so we started brainstorming," says Dave Franzel, a New Yorker and one of two owners of the delivery shop, Gringo's Burrito Grill.
He left, but returned to Cairo in September to (...)
Set directly on the main road that runs through Korba, this brand new café offers sushi as well as your typical café food.
From a street-view no passersby could guess what function the building used to serve. Café Supreme opted to highlight (...)
Ahram Online highlights the faces of the most popular high street fashion retailer, Mango; from Scarlett Johansson, the drop-dead gorgeous favorite, Penelope Cruz, to the newest Mango girl, Kate Moss
Kate Moss officially takes over as Mango's newest (...)
It seems to be competition with the sushi spot, Makani just one door down on 26 of July for the Asian food lovers market, but actually Zo's menu differs greatly from Makani's.
Makani specialises in sushi, but for the non-sushi enthusiast who was (...)
At 29, Chef Thierry Papillier has worked in top restaurants in France and cooked for presidents, movie stars and dignitaries. His rare talent of combining tradition with innovation, together with flawless execution, have helped him achieve culinary (...)
Maria's Mexican restaurant Chef de Cuisine at Fairmont Hotel and Towers in Heliopolis, Victor Garrido has a year of experience as Chef Instructor at University (Americana de Acapulco) as part of the culinary programme teaching international cuisine. (...)
Sarita Marchesi is half Dutch, half Italian, but her Italian upbringing takes over her right-brained artsy side. An actress and opera singer, she even speaks Italian when she speaks English: melodically emphasising the last syllable. The fact that (...)
The premiere of Twilight: Breaking Dawn saw stars making big splashes in deep colours: purples, blacks and, of course – red!
Likewise, the big finale at the Dubai Fashion Week last month was a red-dress desfile that ended with the audience coming (...)
Following the trend forecaster's advice, either add a few pieces to our home decor that will freshen things up, or start from scratch and redo everything to create a completely integrated ambiance.
Nature
Nature, wood and tradition can be (...)
Tonight, Archimedia invites you to watch one of four creepy movies: Nightmare on Elm Street, The Silence of the Lambs, Sweeney Todd or Sleepy Hollow in their showroom. If you don't make it today at 7pm, you are still invited.
One of the leaders (...)
Spanish actor and director, Marco Magoa, has been working for a year on an adaptation of the play Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) by renowned author and poet, Frederico Garcia Lorca in 1932.
The conflict in the play centres on a wedding in a (...)
The Dubai Fashion Week gives a break to two politically-minded new generation designers; one, a Libyan artist who highlights the war in her country and consumeristic waste internationally; the other, an Indian activist
Two of the five designers (...)