The Pharaohs Restaurant — Restaurant in Vientiane Capital

I am an Egyptian and my review is solely based on the food and price to quality of my orders. Let's start with: 1- The pricing: I have bought Koshari, Foul Mdms (mashed beans), Tamia/falafel, bread and grapes leaves. Everything here or most things costs literally 10 times it's price from Cairo,Egypt. Koshari here is around 10 usd, in Egypt it's 1 usd or less. Too expensive especially with the small portions and the taste.

2- the taste: in comparaison to the same food in Egypt, this food was too blend and lacked certain spices and taste. It just doesn't taste as good as it taste in Egypt, the falafel was darker and kinda empty, the yogurt was not solid or tasty, the koshari had no tomato sauce on it and barely an onion, the rice in the grape leaves was not marinated enough. And so on. I was disappointed, because I was really excited about it and to share my cultural food with my colleagues. And the bread, I don't know what was wrong with it but it was like pancakes, I really didn't like that bread (as in Egyptian cuisine).

3- The portion: price to portion is ridiculous, 10 times more expensive than Egypt AND the portion is smaller too. It is just ridiculous. But it is the only "Egyptian" restaurant in Vientiane (and probably Laos).

I really wanted to be a regular here as the owner was extremely nice, polite and charismatic. He opened his closed restaurant just for me. Truly a wonderful person, but the food was that wonderful.

If you're looking for an Egyptian food experience (not the best, but close) you can go to this restaurant, it is not for locals though, it's too expensive for the...

I hate to leave bad reviews, but I hope this can help to improve the restaurant and can be useful for management.

Super friendly and welcoming owner, however, the food quality was not so good. The portions were large, bur we had this feeling that the food was not freshly made. Like all the dishes were assembled from precooked things that were kept in a fridge for at least a day.

I had a foul tahini which actually was some stewed veggies (including cabbage which tastes really weird in a foul) in a tajin with a few fava beans and tahini sauce and I expected a foul to be just cooked mashed fava beans.

Foul is my favourite dish and I ate it more than 1000 times in different countries and unfortunately this one was the worst. It feels like they just put some precooked veggies together with precooked fava beans, with not so fresh tahini, and with low quality oil. So together it was just a super oily mixed precooked ingredients which did not taste fresh and nice as foul should.

My friend had a mixed chicken platter which tasted like pan fried defrosted chicken. Definitely not freshly grilled one. Didn’t taste bad, but didn’t taste fresh. It was just mediocre.

Two mains, a salad and two beverages for KIP 510k.

The place looks a bit run down but clean.

1. Friendly, nice, welcoming owner

2. Clean

3. Vegan options

4. Not fresh

5. Huge menu (it is much better to have less choice but make everything fresh)

6. Everywhere smells like cigarettes hence the owner was smoking inside the restaurant on...

We came here by chance because it was near to our hostel, but we never regret coming here. The prices are a bit higher then the streetfood, but it is same as other non Asian restaurants. The quality of the food was really good, just like we are used back home, if not better. We were really full afterwards. We definitely enjoyed our meal. The owner is a very gentle, friendly and welcoming man, who made us almost feel like home. He speaks very good English and knows a lot about the food he serves. He seemed like a real cook and like he was passioned about his meals. We definately recommend this place. BTW he has a bar as well where you can drink all kind of alcoholic drinks untill late. There is a possibility to smoke Sheesha, but we did...