Be Good To You, Cairo
A vegan cafe in Cairo from health coach Nadia Aboutaleb: fruit-infused waters, cashew lattes and brick-sized brownies served with evident care.
Be Good To You is a vegan café in Cairo that greets you, before anything else, with crystal-clear vats of fruit-infused water, a quiet promise of relief from the desert thirst, and a fair signal of the care that runs through the place.
It is, though, the baked goods that tend to win the room. Stacks of cookies and brick-sized brownies sit in plain view, and they make their case with very little effort. Pair a vegan sweet treat with an aromatic cashew latte and you have the café at its most characteristic.
For those after something savoury, the menu obliges with vegan meatballs and the now-ubiquitous avocado on toast: unfussy, well-made plates that work as easily for a light lunch as for an afternoon pause.
What gives the café its substance is its founder. Be Good To You is the brainchild of Nadia Aboutaleb, a health coach and nutritionist, and that background shows: this is plant-based food built on genuine knowledge rather than trend, served, as the café puts it, with an extra helping of love. It is the sort of claim most places would not survive making, and here you rather believe it.
For a traveller in Cairo seeking a calm, considered spot to refuel, somewhere plant-forward eating is treated as a craft, Be Good To You is a warm, easy recommendation. Order the cashew latte, and do not skip the brownies.
