Best Shops In Cairo: A Look Back At 2010

Best Shops In Cairo: A Look Back At 2010 It's thumping fatiguing to percentage a shop in Cairo; one shopper's favourite can be another shopper's nightmare.

We've compiled here the elite of the shops that we've reviewed during 2010, and taken into consideration our readers' feedback.
We're extremely proud that all our prime picks are Egyptian shops that stand their motive inveigh the international brands operating in Cairo.
If your favourite shop is not included, or you've heard about a new venue that deserves to be featured, lease us know via Twitter, Facebook or email; and we'll make sure to send out our spies during 2011! Best Jewellery And Accessory Boutique: Mounaya Gallery This seldom gallery on the Zamalek Corniche stocks cabinets full of intricate jewels pieces such as gold-covered rings, juicy magnetism irons and mammoth kernel pendants, as well as bags, clothing, bedding and home accessories such as tea sets, trays, alcove mats and big candles.

The one something that all these items may retain in ordinary is that they are either all locally made or from the Middle East cummerbund with an oriental-inspired design.

Mounaya Gallery stocks products by melodious local designers such as Amina K.
, Hebz, Mailaka and sought-after regional designers such as Sarah's Bags.

Buy This: Sarah's Bags come in several sizes from miniature purses to oversized clutches, starting at 800LE.
Honourable Mentions: KDS, Nomad Best Body Care Shop: Nefertari This local device care compass has booths in feasibly every mall in Cairo and a shop in Zamalek.
Producing 100% ordinary and handmade entity care products with Egyptian-sourced ingredients such as lavender, brown sugar and olive oil, Nefertari offers a cheaper option to products by The Body Shop.
Choose from their item oils, foot pedicure sets, usual soaps or bath salts, or try their allusion of organic towels, robes, slippers and loofahs.

Buy This: A paltry hamper of three different and prettily moulded soaps (20LE) makes a tawdry and entire home gift, or try their heavenly and thumping thick phenomenon creams (starting 30LE).
Best Cheap Home Shop: Cavalli Corner This tiny shop in Maadi doesn't achieve the exposure that it deserves.

Located around the alcove from Cellardoor Bistro, Cavalli Corner sells extremely reasonably priced and well-made furniture, focusing mostly on black wood and ethnic Bedouin accents.

The hotelkeeper purchases his products from all around Egypt, including Siwa and Fayoum, and the end result is comfortable, ethnic-inspired pieces.

The shop moreover sells kheyameya print material, bags, kaftan shirts, framed photographs and brass trinkets with semi-precious stones.

Buy This: The black wooden king-sized bed (2250LE) or the cream linen curtains (starting at 75LE).
Honourable Mention: Tao, Down To Earth, La Maison De Mireille Best Expensive Home Shop: The LOFT Gallery The LOFT Gallery is one of the reasons why we love shopping in Cairo.
Opened in 2002, the first-floor gallery is packed with beautiful irradiate fixtures, old ironwork coffee tables and painted wardrobes, all of which are bulky with a vintage, oriental charm.
Some prices are staggeringly high; but it's worth browsing through the shop for stimulation on how to add an elegant, oriental facet to your home.

Furthermore, a few consignment items can be found in the shop for as hardly as 20LE.
Buy This: The Turkish-style trays (950LE) are beautiful and can be used as railing decorations or coffee table surfaces.

Honourable Mentions: Theodor's, Razzmatazz Best Designer Fashion Boutique: HIP With two paltry branches in Cairo, this designer attire boutique stocks edgy designer labels such as Zach Posen, Lanvin and Alexander McQueen with amazing seasonal sales and offers.

Steering away from their contemporaries' bent to stock over-sequined, tinsel pieces, HIP's quotation speaks to the trendy, urban woman.

Understandably, the items on sale are extremely expensive, but if you comprehend your designers, you'll appreciate that the prices here are not much higher than in Europe or the US.
Buy This: Anything during their seasonal sales, which range up to 80% off.
Honourable Mentions: Beymen Best Concept Store: Villa Baboushka Located on Ismail Mohamed Street in a quiet white-washed villa, Villa Baboushka is an impeccably designed and classy shop that makes you deprivation to curl up on their cream couches for a while and enjoy this boutique experience.

Offering designer clothing, clothing jewellery, funky bags, art job and lighting pieces as well as flower arrangements and cupcakes, Villa Baboushka is an admittedly pricey but elaborate shop that caters to the chic and trendy Cairo shopper.
Buy This: If you can afford them, the art pieces (which own been collected from all around the world) are glamorous additions to any living room.
Honourable Mentions: Amuse Best Ethnic Jewellery and Accessories Shop: Sami Amin This local designer factory with leather, bronze and supplementary metals, and the products keep become recognisable staples in many Cairenes' lives.

The suede bags are finely crafted and chance an ethnic oriental design, but their merit and durability make the charge ticket worth it.

Take your instance to browse through the Zamalek rest and you're bound to decline in feelings with a suede wallet, bronze keychain or a substantial buckled belt.

Buy This: Sami Amin's wallets (between 65LE and 115LE) use thick kid with massive needlework and brass clasps to close.

Honourable Mentions: Ganoob Best Bargain Shop: Soraya Mostafa's Optical Store As much as we passion our designer shades, this year's trend in vintage eyewear has helped us lurch upon this gem of a shop in Downtown Cairo.
Located around the cavity from El Horreya Bar in Bab El Louk, this hole-in-a-wall shop sells affordable and funky frames from all around the world.

Pick out a span of 1950s shades or vintage aviators, or possibly you'd like to try their mountain of equally aged rendering glasses.

Eyewear starts at around 75LE and the most expensive eye glasses may payment you around 250LE, and bargaining is actually feasible here.

Buy This: Gold-rimmed pilot glasses (75LE).
Honourable Mentions: Nile Stock Best Deli: Voila Egyptians move their food seriously, which is evident in the character of deli shops that have sprung up around Cairo in the former year alone.

We may be a hardly biased in hustings Voila because it is the blessing and only outlet to market Ben & Jerry's chill cream in Egypt.

However, the shop also has a panoramic and very impressive selection of gourmet foods, including smoked meats such as bresaola and smoked salmon, British cheddars, French crackers and a trestle of exotic spices that would make any aspiring chef cry.

This shop is sharply expensive; so it probably won't be slice of your daily shopping round.

Buy This: Ben & Jerry Funky Monkey (20LE) or the Lockfyne smoked salmon (110LE).
Honourable Mentions: Oscar, La Fromagerie, Gourmet Egypt, La Bottega Italiana Best Bookshop: Diwan Despite unpolluted chase from its contemporaries, this romance queue made the blessing of our brochure because of their lament welfare in promoting the rendering culture around Cairo and helping to expose up-and-coming family writers.

With chains all over Cairo, Diwan offers a relaxed reading environment, where you browse through their bestsellers or magazine, quest through their used books domain and DVDs, and latter your day with a coffee and a quota of carrot cake.

The tale line regularly features workshops, story signing events and seminars.

You can furthermore direction any narrative that you need from anywhere in the world, and they cede deliver it to you within weeks.

Honourable Mentions: The BookSpot, Books And Books, Lehner & Landrock Best Stationery Shop: Abd El Zaher Atelier While many shops around Cairo own caught onto the trend of suede bound notebooks with soft, recycled paper, this shop in Islamic Cairo has a legend to it: the shop is a spawn business with three generations of bookbinders who are passionate about preserving this traditional craft.

Their shelves are stocked with handmade pigskin journals, notebooks, photo albums and homily books.

Designs vary from leather covered in Arabic calligraphy to covers bound in kheyameya material.
You can even customise your diary to retain it engraved with a personal letter in halcyon font.

Buy This: A medium leather-bound journal (75LE).
Honourable Mentions: Qirtassiyat Diwan, Hallmark Best DIY/ Art Shop: El Nomrossy If you understand your system around a thimble and crocheting needle, then you must keep heard of El Nomrossy.

This tiny shop in Mohandiseen stocks pretty much everything that you would normally go to Darb El Barabra to buy to customise your dress with: gems, beads, feather boas, buttons, cement guns and multiple jars of sequins.

Prices are extraordinary reasonable, starting at 0.
25LE for a thimble of sequins, and if you can bypass the nonchalant sales attendants, you can young spend a few hours rifting through their racks of openwork and tulle.

Buy This: Flower appliqu้s (5LE), and embellished diamond buttons (around 15LE).
Honourable Mentions: Alwan Powered by Cairo 360 Sitemap