With floor-to-ceiling windows and a location a stone’s throw from many of Downtown Cairo’s architectural landmarks, Eish + Malh serves Mediterranean-inspired dishes with a big emphasis on local ingredients and flavours. A popular breakfast and brunch spot, don’t leave before trying their homemade ice cream with unique seasonal flavours like lavender, caramelized fig and nigella seeds.

Every list-article has to have an unlikely underdog and this one comes in the form of Downtown’s Eish & Malh. There are only a handful of places in Wust El Balad that one could realistically consider to be date-appropriate, but this Italian bistro is a reminder that quality often comes from simplicity. There’s an easy, casual sophistication about Eish & Malh that’s hard to find in Cairo and the restaurant’s specials are phenomenal – there’s live jazz on weekends, too.

As a relative newcomer to the Cairo culinary market, Eish & Malh has quickly developed a reputation as one of the capital's top spots for excellent Italian cuisine. The bistro – sister venue to Sherif Street's Kafein cafe – serves up delicious homemade pasta and pizza to a growing flock of Downtown food devotees. The ambience is inviting, the crowd varied and the prices are budget friendly with a pizza available from 30LE.

Eish & Malh, meaning bread and salt, offers excellent food and great coffee in a restored building in downtown Cairo. Broad, open windows look out across the road at the Sha’ar HaShamayim Synagogue, built in 1908 in a style evoking Pharaonic temples. Despite the armed police guarding the synagogue and the rush of cars along the street, the cafe has a relaxed, informal atmosphere, with high ceilings and simple red decor.

Eish & Malh is actually an Italian restaurant but despite this, they serve some of the best coffees to enjoy on their own or with/after your meal. They have most standard Italian-coffee options such as cappuccinos and machiattos as well as some great Turkish coffee. Get the Turkish coffee here or give their cold brew coffee a try as well.

Eish & Malh is a magical Italian-style restaurant with amazing vegan options and magnificent gluten-free options. The foods presented are truly delicious offering everyone the most excellent chance to try out an incredible collection of cuisines inspired by the history and culture of Egypt that expanded for over a thousand years.

Although the name is Arabic (translating to bread & salt), Eish & Malh is an Italian restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner – everything from baked eggs & waffles to homemade pasta and thin-crust pizza. Nab a table next to their French windows that open up onto an eclectic Downtown street and people-watch the day away.

Eish & Malh is a hip Italian eatery and cafe inside an old restored building in downtown – and they often host some great live music events too. The cafe is part of the recent revitalization of downtown Cairo. And Eish & Malh (Arabic for bread and salt) is brilliant for an afternoon espresso and thin crust pizza.

This high-ceiling cafe, with original arched windows framed by floor-to-ceiling city scenes in downtown, is a favored spot for hip, young Cairenes. They make thin-crust pizza, plenty of pasta options and really good ice cream. Look out for their Brunch & Jazz every Friday and Saturday!

Eish & Malh: this restaurant is located in Abdeen area in downtown and opens at 7:00am and offers Egyptian oriental food like “Foul, Falafel and Feteer” but, always busy specially from 7:30 to 9:30am.

Eish + Malh are Egyptian words that translate into bread and salt. However, despite having Egyptian words in its name Eish + Malh is an Italian restaurant.

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