Grazie Italian Restaurant

Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

Grazie is a restaurant located on the third floor of the Ramses Hilton Annex across the street from the Ramses Hilton Hotel. They offer Americanized Italian food in Egypt. It's a good place to go if you are feeling tired of local food.

The restaurant is slightly upscale. When you arrive, they ask you where you are from. They bring you to a table and place a flag from your home country on your table. I thought it was a nice touch. It's definitely a restaurant for tourists.

Cost

The food here is very cheap by North American standards, but more expensive than the local restaurants in the area. Most entrees were about 25 LE (or approximately $4-$5).

Dress

Since this place is mainly for tourists, any comfortable clothes are fine.

Service

The servers were very polite. The staff wasn't very chatty, but they certainly spoke enough English to get through your meal.

Items Ordered

Mint Tea

Welcome Drink

While we were waiting for our order we were each offered a welcome drink of some kind of mint tea. It was very sweet, and didn't taste very good.

Pitas

Pitas

Along with our welcome drink we were also brought a small plate of mini pitas with some kind of dipping sauce. I think the dipping sauce was some mixture containing tomatoes. It was actually pretty good and went well with the pitas.

American Pizza

American Pizza

This pizza was what you would expect for an American pizza. The toppings were pretty typical. It was a pretty good size for a personal pizza. One hungry person can probably finish it on their own. The crust was thin and dry. There weren't actually any tomato slices on the pizza, just tomato sauce.

Lasagna

Lasagna

This was a very large lasagna that could easily be shared by two people. It tasted OK, not great. There wasn't very much tomato sauce in it, but it was very cheesy.

Hot Chocolate

Hot Chocolate

The hot chocolate was brought out with our meal rather than as a dessert. It was hot and tasted pretty good. It also came with a little chocolate on the side.