It is All About Menus!

After the Otlob webiste (the ordering for home-delivery website in English), another website that can enhance the food experience for expats in Cairo is http://www.elmenus.com/. The tagline for the website says it all "It'a all about the menu!"

The menus of restuarants are listed on the website and it is possible to search for these restuarants by name. This is a boon, if for example you want to try out a new place but are not sure of what to expect at the restuarant. Through accessing the restuarant's menu on this website, you can avoid disappointments-both in terms of the food available and the prices.

If you are seized with the urge to eat a particular type of cuisine or even a particular dish, the website provides the possiblity of searching for restaurants offering that cuisine or dish. For example if you want to have a burger, then you type in 'burger' in the box provided for the search by cuisine and lo and behold!, all the restuarants that have burger on their menu will be listed together with details of the variety of burger and their prices.

You can search for restuarant menus by cuisine, by area, by special features (wi-fi, delivery, outdoor seating etc) or even use the website to get a list of restuarants and their menus that deliver in a particular area.

However, the website cannot be used to place the order at a restuarant. It does list the address, the timings and the telephone numbers of the restuarant. So, at least it does away with the necessity of saving the menus of your favourite restuarants for the purposes of ordering in food.

Their homepage has some interesting reviews of resturants by patrons, listings of the top five restuarants and the top 5 foods etc.

Eating around Cairo has never been so easy!