Turkey's Famous Charco Chicken is Now in Egypt
Turkey’s cult chicken spot Charco lands in Cairo with four sauces—Bee Bee, Tangy, Volcano, and Charco—and plenty of smoke.
Charco, Turkey’s cult grilled chicken spot with the cylindrical ovens that look like props from a dystopian cooking show, has opened in Cairo. The process is mesmerising: whole chickens lowered into vertical tubes, roasted until the smoke alone could season your clothes.
The menu revolves around four sauces, each sounding less like condiments and more like minor wrestling characters. Bee Bee is the sweet talker, all glaze and charm. Tangy lives up to its name, sharp enough to make you pucker mid-bite. Volcano brings heat in the way of a relative who overshares at weddings: unignorable, possibly alarming. And Charco is the baseline — smoky, direct, the one that explains why you came in the first place.
By the time it’s plated, you’ve basically watched a poultry performance piece. Cairo may not have needed another chicken joint, but it now has one that roasts vertically, smokes horizontally, and leaves you smelling like you just attended a backyard party you don’t remember.
