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Rangoli Restaurant Sharm
El-Sheikh
By Daniel Lanier
I love excellent Indian food and I love restaurants with a very
special atmosphere. To find both at the same time isn’t easy at
all, since most of the Indian restaurants in the Western world as
well as in Egypt are just some kitshy and uninspired places,
decorated with lots of pseudo-Indian and pseudo-oriental stuff.
Not to speak about the food.
Recently I found both, delightful Indian food in a memorable
location, in the Sofitel Sharm El-Sheikh Hotel’s »Rangoli
Restaurant«. It is part, of course, of the hotel and accessible
only through the hotel’s main entrance and that unfortunately is
better by car. The hotel is around 2 km (1.2 miles) away from
Naama Bay’s downtown, which doesn’t make it very suitable for
a spontaneous visit of its »Rangoli Restaurant«. But if you once
decided to go, or better, to drive there, you won’t regret it.
The view alone is worth a visit! The restaurant’s small
terrace looks down upon the Red Sea from a hill and the whole
Naama Bay opens up in front of your eyes! Yes, the service was
poor and slow the last time we spent an evening there, but we
enjoyed watching the lights of the other hotels and the ships
passing through the Gulf of Aqaba. I can’t imagine a more
romantic dining spot in Sharm El-Sheikh than that terrace. Our
dishes, the lamb in curry as well as the lamb in spinach were very
delicious. Our bill for two was around LE 170 (USD 38), including
soft drinks, coffee and soup, which made this evening rather
expensive.
»Rangoli Restaurant« at the Sofitel Sharm El-Sheikh Coralia
Hotel, Naama Bay, Sharm El-Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt. Open daily
from 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm. Reservation recommended.
Telephone: +20–69–600081.
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