Ranked shortlist · 10 of 39 casual eateries
Best casual eateries in Cairo
The 10 most notable casual eateries in Cairo, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Simonds bakery and cafe
112 26th of July Corridor
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.443, percentile 100 of 39
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2
Simonds
29 Sherif Basha
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.426, percentile 97.37 of 39
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3
Flamenco Postres Bakery & Pastry
Abo El Feda St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.348, percentile 94.74 of 39
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4
Dara's Ice Cream
106 26th of July Corridor
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.310, percentile 92.11 of 39
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5
Dunkin' Donut
بنزينه التعاون - صلاح سالم- مصر الجديده
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.215, percentile 89.47 of 39
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6
NOLA Zamalek
12 Brazil St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.209, percentile 86.84 of 39
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7
Le Bec Sucré
22 Taha Hussien, Zamalek, Inside the President Hotel
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.123, percentile 84.21 of 39
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8
سوبيا الرحماني
٣٦ متفرع من شارع الكومي - السيدة زينب
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.047, percentile 81.58 of 39
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9
Tiba
66 Abou Al Mahasen Al Shazli
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.029, percentile 78.95 of 39
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10
TBS
4 D Saraya El, Gezira St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.012, percentile 76.32 of 39
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).