Best Restaurants in Alexandria 2026

Alexandria is Egypt's second-largest city, a Mediterranean port stretching along a broad curving corniche on the country's northern coast. Founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC, it was once home to the ancient Great Library and the Lighthouse of Pharos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Today Alexandria mixes Greco-Roman ruins, Ottoman-era forts, Belle Époque architecture, and a lively seafood and fishing culture along a coastline of sandy bays.

Alexandria's food scene is built on the Mediterranean at its doorstep: this is Egypt's seafood city, where fishermen sell the morning's catch directly to grill houses in Bahari and Anfushi. Underneath that runs a century of cosmopolitan influence from the Greek, Italian, and Levantine communities that once called Alexandria home, still visible in its old-world patisseries and cafes, alongside everyday Egyptian street food like koshari, foul, and taameya.