If you are looking to take beautiful sunset pictures for your Instagram followers, this is your spot in Luxor! To get to the rooftop, your enter through Nefertiti hotel and climb 6 or 7 flights of stairs to be seated at the rooftop for sunset.

However, I’ll explain my two stars rating. If you want good Egyptian food or just good food in general that isn’t overpriced, come here for the sunset and after go to a non touristy place for food.

Our time here as a whole felt rushed and not enjoyable. Every restaurant we’ve gone to in Egypt we’ve spent over an hour at dinner and here it felt like the server and a manger wanted us to order as quickly as possible and leave. They began to move the tables around us and constantly clearing our table and asking if we were done to clear our table for new patrons. I felt uncomfortable with all the stares and constant check ins because every other true Egyptian restaurant we’ve gone to has been a wonderful and welcoming experience. Here it felt like they wanted us to eat and leave because they took reservations for sunset time meals which cost more money so anyone who was seated an hour sunset and was hoping to stay through the whole experience, needed to leave for higher paying patrons.

Now for the food, here’s how I know this is a true tourist catered restaurant. In all other local favorites we went to for Egyptian food, your entree came with four or five appetizers that included spreads and salads, bread, etc. Here, your food came with absolutely nothing and all those apps were individually offered. Secondly how I know this so truly for tourists is the lack of flavor and spice in food. This was our last city and at this point we’ve gone to 5 or 6 amazing Egyptian restaurants so we were used to the amazing taste. Immediately upon even tasting one of the spreads we ordered, I knew the food wouldn’t be good. Our entrees were not spiced, my chicken was over cooked with barely any chicken pieces and mainly tomato sauce. Majority of my husbands camel burger we fed to the sweet stray cat hanging by our table.

Here is what I recommend, the mint and hibiscus teas are unmatched! Come here for your Instagrammable sunset post, order the tea and then leave to have food somewhere else. The prices are higher than we were used to in Egypt and the food was terribly prepared and I say that not to be offensive but I assume it’s by design to draw in tourists as our western food at times is more mildly flavored than other regions in the world.