Where to Find the Best Grilled Cheese in Egypt – A SceneEats Guide

Sometimes, you need roumi cheese in baladi bread, microwaved at 2 AM while standing barefoot in your kitchen, contemplating your life choices and eating straight from the plate like a raccoon with a master’s degree. And other times? You need the life-together version. The grilled cheese that comes on artisanal sourdough, arrives diagonally sliced, and is served with a side of tomato soup or an overpriced matcha you pretend to like. Balance.

Egypt’s relationship with grilled cheese has been... rocky. For years, it was treated like the sad middle child of the sandwich world. Cafes would slap sad yellow slices between frozen toast and call it a day. No golden crust, no cheese pull, no soul. But recently, a grilled cheese renaissance has arrived - led by spots that take their melts seriously. They’re buttering the bread, toasting it like they mean it, and using real cheese (revolutionary, we know).

So we went in, bite first. We hunted the gooey, the crispy, the ones that crunched like a well-timed comeback and melted like your willpower during a Zara sale. These are the grilled cheese sandwiches in Egypt that got us through it all - heartbreaks, hangovers, and the horror of realizing we have to cook dinner again tomorrow.