Welcome to Salahadeen!

Welcome to Salahadeen Restaurant & Bar in Luxor!

Traditional Egyptian Home Cooking

24 hr. Advance Booking Necessary

Salahadeen Restaurant is unique in Luxor. The idea behind Salahadeen Restaurant is to serve as many dishes as possible in a relaxed, atmospheric setting that will allow you to savour the variety of real Egyptian food & wine. We began in August by serving 14 dishes and have now graduated to serving 16 - 20 dishes per table over 6 courses at a cost of only 125LE per person!

We do not have a menu for guests to choose from...you get to taste and eat ALL the dishes and your feast takes a minimum of an hour and a half to 2 hours to consume! Dinner at Salahadeen's is not something you will eat everynight!! It is an experience to treasure maybe once or twice during your visit to Luxor but definetely not to be missed!

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Take a break from 21st. century Egypt and journey back in time for a few hours at Salahadeen's Restaurant. Named after the legendary Salahadeen Ayubbi who first united the arab world and battled Richard the Lion Heart & the Crusaders for the holy city of Jerusalem. Co-incidentally, the restaurant is situated in the only street in Luxor, and possibly in all of Egypt, that is also named after the famous Salahadeen Ayubbi!

Most true Egyptian dishes could not be eaten as a starter or main course which is why so many of our dishes are not served in normal restaurants. It is the combination of the flavours of 5 - 6 different dishes that makes eating an Egyptian home-cooked meal a delightful experience.

So, even though we provide our guests with knives, forks and spoons!!! we do encourage them to "do it the Egyptian way" and dip pieces of bread in the various bowls of each course, alternating the taste experience with each mouthful to experience the blending of flavours on the palate. A glass of Egyptian wine from the alabaster goblets puts the "finishing touch" to this unique dining experience!

Dinner is 6 courses totalling 16 - 20 dishes (depending on what is in the market each day). The price per person is 125LE (£10 - £14 depending on exchange rates).

Background "music" is the tinkle of our central water fountain.

The tables are solid dark wood and the chairs are arabesque "thrones"

Lighting is provided by 8 bedouin "chandeliers" each consisting of 11 lamps, all festooned with red and green glass droplets.

Artwork is by local artists and pride of place goes to two authentic reclaimed doors from "old Cairo"

Egyptian traditional family meals consist mainly of vegetables, different beans, eggs, cheese, combined, cooked and seasoned with aromatic herbs and spices. In the homes the food is served in bowls on a large tray. The family sit around the tray usually on the floor. The food is eaten by dipping bread into alternate dishes and picking it with the bread. Meat and fish is expensive and not eaten every day and not in large quantities.

Egyptian families usually do not drink while eating, preferring to drink a very sweet, black tea, kirkadee or fresh fruit juices when finished eating. Sweets and desserts are not eaten after a meal but as a tasty in between meals snack mostly late at night.

Salahadeen's Restaurant takes great care to be true to Egyptian family traditional methods of preparing and cooking the freshest local produce. Nothing is frozen or pre-cooked, or reheated at Salahadeen. Our food is bought fresh every morning before 10am. Preparing begins at 2pm and dinner is served at 8pm. This is the reason that advance reservation is essential as we need to know how many we are cooking for each day!

Vegans should be aware that in most Egyptian houses, restaurants, hotels the vegetarian dishes are usually cooked in meat juices for flavour! Only our meat dishes have meat & meat juices...all other dishes are vegan except those with egg which our waiters will tell you about if you ask.

Salahadeen's Bar - opens at 7pm for pre-dinner drinks and carries a wide variety of both imported and local beers, wines, spirits and soft drinks.

Complimentary taxi pick-up from your hotel with all advance bookings (return journey at your own expense).

Simply call us from your hotel reception 0105462480 to make your reservation and we will agree a time for a car to pick you up.

You may also make an advance reservation by email here Mara giving us the name of your accommodation

Salahadeen Restaurant - Mara House

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This site was last updated 10/30/08