Sea Gull Restaurant — Egyptian Seafood / Fine Dining, Alexandria
Sea Gull Restaurant has earned consistent accolades for its elegant setting, extensive seafood menu, and professional service that distinguish it from Alexandria’s more casual seafood tables. The restaurant takes the Alexandrian seafood tradition to its most formal expression: a dining room of genuine quality, service that matches it, and a menu that covers the Egyptian fish cooking canon at its most accomplished.
The kitchen’s signature preparations are the sayadeya — fish with rice in a rich spiced stock that is one of Egypt’s greatest contributions to Mediterranean seafood cooking — and the shrimp casserole that reflects the restaurant’s understanding of what the Alexandrian seafood tradition at its finest looks like. The chef’s daily specials reflect the market and the catch.
The wine list is more comprehensive than most Alexandria seafood restaurants: Egyptian producers alongside the Mediterranean selections that the cooking’s North African and Greek-influenced character requires.
Sea Gull is the Alexandria seafood restaurant for occasions that require both the quality of the fish and the formality of the setting. The combination is rarer in this city than the abundance of seafood might suggest.
Best Occasion: Impress Clients
An elegant setting, professional service, and the sayadeya and shrimp casserole that demonstrate what Alexandrian seafood cooking achieves at its finest: Sea Gull is the most formally impressive seafood table in Egypt’s Mediterranean capital.
Best Occasion: Birthday
The elegant setting, the extensive seafood menu, and the professional service make Sea Gull the natural birthday address for Alexandria celebrations that want the formal expression of the city’s finest culinary tradition.