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  • Price range*: $10-$20
  • Address: Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

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“The Best!”

sinai star

Jun 17, 2008
2/2 found this review helpful

We have been visiting Sharm el Sheikh for over 20 years and the Sinai Star is an absolute Don't Miss! The seafood is totally fresh and you get a very large platter. Let me describe the experience:

Get a taxi to Old Sharm El Sheikh (not Naama Bay) and ask the taxi driver to drop you near the Sinai Star - they will know it. It will be about a 20 metre walk. It's a very small place, not in the least fancy, paper tablecloths with some tables inside and more outside. Don't be put off by the very plain surroundings - the food is outstanding.
You sit down. The owner will come and take your order. Basically you order platter 1 or platter 2 depending on whether you want both fish and seafood. You can have it grilled or fried. You will get a HUGE platter plus salad, bread and dips for an absolute pittance and I promise you that when it comes you will wonder if you read the menu right!
They don't serve alcohol but you can buy wine from a stand across the road or a shop 50 yards further up and they will serve you quite happily.
This is a taste of the old Sharm before there were any hotels and when there were just fishermen, divers and the Bedouin. If you go once, you'll go again.
After dinner, wander into the market for coffee and shisha.
Allie.

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“Worth going out of your way for”

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5 of 5 stars
London, England
May 28, 2008
6/6 found this review helpful

Like seafood but not the expense, dont care about decor that much, like eating where the local do - then this is the place for you.

Its in Old Sharm market down the first alley like way, which I'm sure like us you could not find and had to pay someone to walk you 100yards to its entrance!

They dont have menus and everyone seemed to have a mixed fish platter which comes with a tehini dip starter, bread rice and salad - the day we went platter included a local white fish, king prawns, calamari and optional lobster. We went for grilled except for the calamari but you could have everything fried it you liked. The platter was huge more than enough for 4-5 really, the prawns where marinated in a delicous coating, the fish was melt in the mouth, calamari crisp and not oily only disappointment was the lobster which was too dry and sorry but a tad tasteless (if I went again I would skip it).

They did not mind us bringing along our own wine and there is a off licence conveniently a few doors along if you forgot. Other tables where doing the same.

I was surprised that it was cleaner than I'd imagined and the tables where cramped in but big enough to feel that you had elbow room. There where some outside tables in a closed off area but it was hot at night and inside they had great fans cooling us off.

Value was outstanding, well worth going out of your way for!

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