Nefertiti Restaurant, near the corner of Ash-Sheikh Scbak and Abd al-Aziz Moustafa St. (around the corner from the Gobal) offers delicious inexpensive meals (try die chicken kabab with fried onions, tomatoes, and peppers).

Bella Riviera, 2 doors down from Tarbouch, offers pasta (lasagna LE3), meat dishes (LE7-9.25), salads (LEI.25-2.50), cheap drinks, and A/C.

Arlene’s, between the Shakespeare and Alaska hotels, offers a taste o’ Americana with smiling employees (some even female) and pita bread nachos. Sandwiches and burgers LE3-7. Pasta dishes LE5-10. Diet sodas (LE2-2.50), cappuccino (LE3), and real milk shakes (LE6). Alcohol available. Popular with U.S. navy folk stationed on the Red Sea. AJso sells English books.

Young Kang, by the Gobal Hotel. Another U.S. Navy hangout. Huge menu (noodles LE8.50-15.50, chicken LE11.50-15.50, seafood LE17.50-20).