The Best Kunafa in Cairo

Cairo takes kunafa seriously year-round, not just in Ramadan. The city's pastry shops and dessert cafés serve everything from classic kunafa bil eshta and kunafa bil gebna to newer versions layered with Nutella, mango, or pistachio cream, and you'll find both the fine naameh shredded style and the coarser khishna. The guide below rounds up the kunafa spots our editors rate across Cairo — from decades-old bakeries in Downtown and Sayeda Zeinab to modern dessert counters in Zamalek, Maadi, Heliopolis, and Sheikh Zayed — with what each one does best.

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