Antique Khana — Restaurant in Geziret al Zamalik, Jazirat al Zamalik

starting with the decent part, obviously the antiques and the nostalgia, you will take hundrends of photos in that place no doubt. Now regarding the dounsides, first of all the staff is so loud, literally screaming at each other, it will take you a couple minutes to get a hold of someone to serve you with tiny things, food was on time for Iftar so that's good since it was only one person in the IFTAR rush hour. The food was terrible to say the least, bland, no salt, tastless, cooked really well but no flavor at all. I had the chicken fettuccine with basil which is supposed to be their best seller, literally zero flavor at all that's all i can say so i couldn't finish the plate and i had to smother my dish in salt to make it edible. I had the Tuna pizza, pizza was trash, too thin almost crunchy like eating toasted bread, the dough was neither Italian nor american, I've never seen worse dough, like fino bread kinda dough and even worse, and for it's price you'd expect something a little better in terms of quality of ingredients, but really nothing stood out. And the worst among them all, is the mix gril. Rice with nuts was nice, the steak was awfully tastless even though it was cooked good, the shish tawook was average but the kufta? my lord it was awful, it has a weird flavor to it, something kinda spicy but u know it's not supposed to be there. For 350 L.E this mix gril was a crime, for this money and all you get is a steak and two cubes of chicken and a poisoned Kufta stick? not sure if I'm mad or glad that there wasn't much food to worry about. For the food, I'd never come back, but for the vibe and the oldish soothing feeling of the antiques, might come back for something that they can't mess up like a tea...

Wow! This is all I can say, finally a place I would easily give it 5/5! The decoration of this place is exceptional, authentic, nostalgic and luxurious as if you go to a royal palace or a museum with a classic music in the background. And personally it reminds me of my grandma's home! ♥️ Even the smell of it.. It smells like a cooked tomato sauce 😂 (which is obvious) we ordered Fettuccine with Chicken and Basil and Cannelloni, and this is so far the best pasta restaurant I've ever been to! The cannelloni was sooo good! So creamy with exceptional mix of spices and a hint of cinnamon in the meat (I believe it was cinnamon), the tomato sauce was perfect and rich! The pasta itself was perfectly cooked, they also use a good quality of mozzarella cheese it was perfectly melted in there, and this was my first time trying the basil fettuccini and let me tell you it wasn't that bad at all! It was so creamy! With a good quantity of chicken inside the sauce, again the pasta was perfectly cooked the cream-basil mix was so good I was satisfied with the portions also. My only concern is the hygiene level the tables itself wasn't that clean, there were cigarettes pieces all over the table and I believe they must invest in new air conditioners. The stuff were somehow friendly. The prices were very good compared to any other pasta places, I paid 216 for both...

Hit and Miss....

I attended the venue once in the evening and once in the morning.

The place itself is charming, quaint and relaxing. In fact I loved the ambience of the place, so I wanted everything to be good. Hoping to make it a regular watering hole.

The food is rather lucky dip. Thai chicken in noodles was tasteless but the seafood spaghetti was good. Iced black coffee was 1/3 coffee and 2/3 froth so I sent it back only to find it had been laden with sugar.

Cheese platter promises Gouda, Cheddar and Roumy and I asked the waiter to confirm this before ordering but I got 2 square slices of plastic orange cheese that you find on a burger, a lump of cold Halloumi and a soft white cheese, not hard Roumy.

The Creme brulee was the star of the show and I can give that an 8/10 but sadly that alone would not be enough to have me return again.

The fresh strawberry juice was good, the orange was not and the chain smokers staring into their laptops does nothing for the...