El Gouna's Don Bisho Will Open in New Cairo

El Gouna’s beloved Don Bisho is finally opening a Cairo branch at New Cairo’s Garden 8 — a development that has sent the city into the kind of emotional spiral usually reserved for surprise exam results and World Cup qualifiers. For years, Cairenes have travelled to El Gouna, ordered bowls of pasta the size of personal life decisions, and declared, “Someone should bring this to Cairo.” Giovanni Bolandrini, serial restaurateur and the man behind Pier 88 and the multi-award-winning Khufu’s, has apparently decided to take this personally.

Don Bisho, known for Italian food that tastes like it has been prepared by a nonna who both loves you and quietly judges your life choices, is now entering the New Cairo arena. Garden 8 has already begun mentally rearranging its parking situation in anticipation of the crowds trying to secure a table “before everyone finds out,” which, unfortunately, is exactly what is happening right now.

The move marks Pier88 Group’s latest attempt to test how far Cairo’s appetite can stretch before someone finally stages an intervention. Early predictions suggest Cairo will treat Don Bisho the same way it treats everything that arrives from the Red Sea: with immediate devotion, minor chaos, and a level of enthusiasm that makes it unclear whether people are hungry or simply coping.