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El Mina
Sakkala Square Cuisines: SeafoodAbout
If you're feeling a little hemmed in by the walls of your resort, tired of eating in "outlets" instead of restaurants, and antsy to see a little bit of the "real" Hurghada, head to El Mina. The current owners claim family association with a local fisherman named Taha who discovered a particularly bountiful reef back in the 1950s. El Mina is now the best known and best established of the local eateries. Decorated in traditional Egyptian fish restaurant-style -- which is to say over-the-top marine tableaux on the walls, aquariums, and bright colors -- it offers guests a chance to choose their own fish from the ice-packed stand in front of the kitchen and practice their sign language in describing how it gets cooked. The only real choice you have to make is between grilled and fried (choose grilled), and everyone knows these words in English. It's one of the few places in Hurghada where you'll find the kind of easy-going, friendly welcome visitors get in less-touristy places around Cairo or the Delta.
