Guest Book

Salahadeen Restaurant

We wanted to try Egyptain Food and decided to visit Salahadenn on the recommendation of 'our flat at luxor'. It was easy to book a reservation via email before going on hoilday and the complementary taxis arrived on time as promised. Although you can phone and book while you are there - best do it in advance as the food is slow cooked so they need a bit of notice.

We wanted a bit of an adventure and we got one. As some of you are aware there is lots of regeneration and lots of building works going on in Luxor. Once the taxi crossed the very basic level crossing, we entered the real Luxor and for just a few minutes I did wonder whether this was going to be a good idea.

Amidst all the chaos appeared a beautiful white building that looked out of place with its surroundings. At that point I realised that this was going to be a really good adventure.

This was a superb dinning experience. After pre-dinner drinks in the bar, we were escorted to the dining room which was wonderfully decorated with hand crafted egyptian furniture and art works.

Mara (the owner) describes the meal as a feast and that it certainly was.

Each couse, and there are four of them, was a wonderful experience. It is a mezze style meal with a selection of different things to try, salad and dips and bread to start, followed by soup, followed by vegetable dishes, followed by meat course that was wonderfully slow cooked beef and very tasty. The liver which is a very traditional was beautifully cooked, and I dont like liver!

On one hand it was dissapointing that dessert was missing due the mangoes being too ripe to serve, but on the other we were glad as we were so full we would have been unable to eat anything else.

It was good to try egyptian food, new tastes, flavours and ingredients, we didn't like all of it but that was due to our personal taste, but we did try it all as it looked so good. Some egyptian food is meant to be eaten in small quantities, which is why each course has a selection of foods for you to dip in and try.

It was worth every penny, and an absolute pleasure to drink nice room temperature egyptian red wine (why do some hotels serve it cold!)

we recommended it to friends we had made at our hotel and they too enjoyed it.

Will we come again? - See you next time Mara - it was a pleasure.