East Bank

The Fortune Cookie + The King And Thai
St Joseph Hotel Street & Medina Street
from 20 le
noon til 11pm
150 Meters down side street next to the St Joseph Hotel

A new fully Licensed Chinese & Thai Restaurant also serving a selection of international Dishes. A new restaurant from the owner of the popular A Taste Of India restaurant and the new Regal Lounge Bar & Grill which is on the floor above.

Jamboree Restaurant

Daily 10.30am-2.30pm & 6.30-10.30pm. inside the souk. ph: 010-146 1712, a spotlessly clean, air-conditioned establishment with roof terrace, serving a range of mid-priced egyptian and international dishes of above average quality including cajun chicken le 22.50, tasty jacket potatoes le 9-13 and a safe salad bar. owned and run by two really friendly and handsome egyptians, mr. hamdy and mr. amer.

El Kebabgy

Daily 12.00am-12.00pm. below the corniche, near the winter palace hotel, it offers great views of the nile & west bank and inexpensive, decent quality food including pasta, grills kofte, kebab, pigeon, mousaka etc; by candle light at night.

McDonalds

Behind luxor temple, provides cheeseburgers and a safe haven from the nearby souk.

Al-Sahaby Lane

(http://www.nefertitihotel...) the restaurant is located next door to nefertiti hotel, in the souk, the colorful egyptian market of luxor, on sahaby street.

Sofra
90 Mohamed Farid St
(095) 235 9752
11-midnight

Specialises in Egyptian food with a groovy decor of Egyptian antiques and antique-like furnishing. Gives you a Western-style experience with Egyptian food. Very friendly service that can be a little slow at times. It's expensive for Egypt with starters around 10-25 LE, mains around 30-60 and juices 10-20. Because it's the top pick of a very well known guidebook series, you really do need to book here otherwise you'll be turned away at the door.

Casablanca
El-Rodah El-Sherefa Street
0101725821
11AM to 12PM
100 meters down side street from Steigenberger Hotel in Khaled Ebn El Waleed Street

Classy restaurant with anemphasis on fish and seafood along with classic Egyptian food. Tastefully decorated and spotlessly clean. The presentation of the food is lovely and the staff and owner are welcoming without being obnoxious.

El Zaeem

Main road bordering the market, bright lights, two levels sitting upstairs, 'chain' feel, red uniforms. offers fresh simple and very cheap food such as shwarma and hawashi for 5 le or less. note that they have an arabic menu with the 'correct' prices, and an english menu or no menu at all with made up prices for foreigners anywhere between 10-25 le for shwarma!. therefore, reading arabic is a necessity for the local price!