Lucille’s Burger
Since I arrived to Cairo on the weekend I hadn’t really experience Cairo traffic until today. It took us around an hour and a half to get to Lucille’s a burger place that was highly recommended by a few readers on the blog while it took only 20 minutes on the way back. If that wasn’t bad enough there was a football match tonight in which the Egyptian team Ahli won and I ended up getting stuck in one crazy traffic jam celebration on my way to the production house.
Anyway finding Lucille’s wasn’t very easy and when I did the place didn’t look impressive. I decided to ignore the location and look of the place and go in and order a cheese burger. I had read a lot of positive stuff about this burger so I was really expecting it to be great, it wasn’t!
For everyone who rated this burger highly you must have had a different burger than the one I had because mine was pretty ordinary. Presentation wasn’t appetizing at all and although the bun was soft and the meat tender the burger overall was just fair. If it was in Kuwait I would have rated it a 3 or 3.5 out of 5 not more so I don’t understand how this could be the best burger in Cairo. The one I had at Four Seasons last night was a better burger than this.
No more burgers for me on this trip, I need to start having more local dishes.
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30 Comments, add your own...
1. pantera_freak666 | November 16th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
yo find a place called route 66 alot of ppl i know told me about this place…
as far as i know it was in ma3adi!
2. Its.me.Its.Me.its.me | November 16th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
What about the Brazilian restO ? :I
ده عيش ” فينووو ” ؟ :I
and say hi if you see ( هاني سلامة ) or ( كريم عبعزيز ) …. sank yo :I
3. HeartBeat | November 16th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Man Egypt is the worse place for what ever kind of food!
Even the FOUL that they are famous of is Bad over there !
Lebanese/Syrian/Jordanian way of doing Foul is million times better.
Just go for belly dance or something!
4. M. T. | November 16th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Hey Mazen …. Well dear guess what .. you ordered the Wrong Burger !!!! .. you should have tried one of the special burgers they have… BBQ Burger !!!!
5. Komoto | November 16th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
only in Egypt can a highly recommended burger be so … ordinary!
6. chatterbox | November 16th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
u guys
there is cookies named after you in choowy goowy???
7. BoOmBaStiC | November 16th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Try Mac Royal, Better…….
8. M3T4L | November 16th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Hey Mark or “Mazen” (if that’s ur egyptian name lol), do u ever eat anything but burgers mate ?? hehe
9. HaMooR | November 17th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Mark … go eat at Abu Alseid … elle belzamalek .. or eldogy..
you will never go wrong with it….. try Sharkaseya…Molokheyaa…and 7aamaam…
10. Nobu | November 17th, 2008 at 12:32 am
From the looks of it, the place screams food poisoning.
11. Holla | November 17th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Egypt sucks for good food.even their falafel (tamiya) style sucks bc it’s too huge so it ends up undercooked.
12. Lexicon | November 17th, 2008 at 1:20 am
go to abu el seed zamalek now!
13. yousef | November 17th, 2008 at 1:25 am
u have to go check out Farahat !! A MUST VISIT!!!
14. gargoyle | November 17th, 2008 at 2:07 am
who dares to eat meat in egypt ? my high school teacher told me no matter where you are never order meat except if your in a hotel.
15. kwt23 | November 17th, 2008 at 4:16 am
what the hell is wrong with the bun??
16. Tweez | November 17th, 2008 at 8:34 am
so much for the world’s best hamburger. I wonder how much the writer of that article got paid to write that? But then again, anything will taste like “the best thing ever” if you get the munchies!
17. Contessa ***` | November 17th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Eat what your eyes desire and your stomach craves. Recommendations could be many, but taste differs from person to person. Bad idea following recommendations. Life is an adventure, for once try something on your own and see maybe you might like it. Else the remaining part of your trip is going to turn disastrous with horid food and silly recommendations. For instance, with this burger place, you wasted time and precious taste buds.
18. Die-Na-Mite | November 17th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Bun looks funny. Bigger than the burger.
19. mosan | November 17th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
stick to hotel food no need to take risks while you are there
20. Khaled | November 17th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
hmm, the fries look reallly good, but why did u order a cheese burger, if you have the chance try a special burger, but since its hard to find dont go if its out of your way. plues go to the streets of cairo look for places with “ghetto” food, have a taste of the real cairo and try not to get food poisoned.
21. Mark | November 17th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
also tried Al-Rifai which supposedly has the best kebab in Egypt and Maison Thomas pizza which supposedly is the best pizza in Egypt. Going to post about these 2 later.
22. Random Dude | November 17th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
you should try Abo Al Sid.. or أبو السيد
best koshar in egypt. they even have a branch in sharm.
23. Xtreme | November 17th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Try Abo Shaqra .. It’s in Al Mohandessin .. It’s also availiable in q8 too .. but the one in Egypt is way more better
24. weezy | November 17th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Maison Thomas actually does have the best pizza in Egypt. But if your looking for some real egyptian food, you have to got to Abo Al Sid!
25. vinz-q8 | November 17th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
you should be trying the Egyptian Fava Bean Dip (Foul Mudammes)
thats their fav dish available…..
lol……….
26. flux | November 17th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
you should try eating katah
27. Nina | November 17th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Al Rifai isnt the best kebab place!!! but you have to try Abou El seed….its amazing and not just the food the decor and everything you will definetly feel like ur in a movie then!
Also Lucilles burgers suck…their breakfast is amazing….they serve it all day on saturdays i believe….
BTW the best belly dancer in egypt is at a placed called Fayrouz in the intercontinental at city stars….the singers are cheesy but the place is quite classy and the belly dancer knows how to shake it!
28. yousef | November 18th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
GO TO FARAHAT DAMMIT WATS YOUR PROBLEM !!!!
29. Musaed | November 20th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Try McDonald’s :P`
30. ams | November 22nd, 2008 at 7:59 pm
never tried their burgers. but their breakfast is good!!!
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