El Roie

El Roie is the name of the restaurant here at our hotel. Although we usually order room service in the mornings and eat breakfast while watching the BBC or checking email, today we headed down to the restaurant and had breakfast there. We were interested to try some things on the menu we hadn't had yet, like the "foul" and the "fateira", but didn't think we'd have much luck asking over the telephone. So we grabbed a table, asked for a menu and then asked what those two items were. The waitress told us that "foul" was beans, and when asked for more detail she said it was a bean soup, with black pepper, and was popular with guests from Sudan. The "fateira" was like a big chapati, she said; luckily I was familiar with the Indian fried flatbread. We ordered both items, and a couple of macchiatos. The "foul" soup actually ended up tasting pretty good, as did the fateira, which was served with sweet honey.