Open-air food garden & community space · Asalah, Dahab

Keep it simple.
Keep it Baseetä.

A hand-built garden of palm, wood and sand, one step from Asalah Square. Come at four when the light turns gold. Stay for the feteer, the tawla and whoever picks up a guitar.

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Open daily · 4 PM – 2 AM

Afternoon light through burlap drapes on the wooden pergola at Baseetä, with floor cushions and striped rugs
The moon over the palm thatch and lantern-lit garden at night
Scroll through an evening

ba·see·ta بسيطة

adjective · Egyptian Arabic

  1. Simple. Uncomplicated.
  2. What you say, with a shrug and a smile, when something is no big deal. “No worries.”
  3. A garden in Dahab where both are true.

The idea

Dahab, the way you remember it.

Behind a wall of green, just south of Asalah Square, there is a garden made out of wood, stone, palm thatch and sand. No dress code, no rush, no table you have to give back. Sit on the floor. Take your shoes off. Order tea and forget what time it is.

We built Baseetä slowly and by hand, and filled it with things that carry a story: clay lanterns, old tin signs, a hand pump, paintings left by friends. It is a place to eat well, and also a place to simply be.

“Everything we build is built with thoughts, memories, a transparent heart, and pure love for Dahab.”

The Baseetä family

5:30 PM Golden hour

Pick a corner. It's yours for the evening.

The garden is big, and it is all nooks. Loud table or quiet one, sun or shade, cushions or chairs.

Floor seating under the pergola with burlap curtains and striped rugs
The pergolaBurlap drapes, floor cushions, Bedouin stripes. Shoes optional.
Looking out from under a palm-thatch roof into green trees
Under the thatchPalm shade and a breeze, with the whole garden in view.
Board games, a clay teapot and embroidered cushions on a wooden deck
The games deckTawla, cards and board games. Loser buys the tea.
A wooden shelf of paperbacks beside a lattice window
The book shelfPaperbacks for slow afternoons.
Palm-wood stairs leading to the upper deck
The upper deckUp the palm-wood stairs for a view over the trees.
A mud-plaster wall with a lantern and a red woven bench at night
The quiet wallMud plaster, one lantern, room for two.
A red-and-white fabric fish hanging from a wooden beam
The little thingsLook up, look around. Someone made each of them.
The whole garden glowing under lanterns just after dark

around seven

The sun slips behind the Sinai mountains, and the lanterns come on.

The blue mosaic oven behind the mud-plaster counter, with woven lamps above

the blue oven

8:00 PM Dinner

Proper Egyptian food, straight from the oven.

Feteer is Egypt's thousand-layer pie: dough stretched thin by hand, folded around honey and cream or cheese and pastrami, and baked until it shatters. Ours comes out next to coal-kissed hawawshi, slow clay-pot tagines and grills served the way home serves them, with rice, salad, tahini and bread.

  • Big plates, honest prices
  • Dine in, take away or delivery
  • Ask us what's good tonight
Golden, flaky Egyptian feteer cut into quarters

Feteer

Sweet with honey and cream, or savoury with pastrami and three cheeses.

from 90 EGP
A clay pot of meat tagine in rich tomato sauce

Tagines

Okra, potato, white beans or mixed vegetables, slow-cooked with meat in clay.

280 EGP
Tender meat, potato and carrot baked in a paper parcel

Meat in paper

Waraet lahma: meat, onion, pepper and tomato, sealed and baked in its own juices.

250 EGP
A wooden table laid with stuffed vine leaves, salads and clay bowls

Hawawshi & grills

Spiced meat baked in baladi bread, kofta, shish tawook and the mixed grill.

from 90 EGP

10:00 PM After dinner

Different countries, different stories, one language: music.

Nobody plans it. Someone brings a violin, someone else knows the words, and the whole garden turns towards the sound. Some nights it's Fairuz and old Egyptian songs, some nights it's a jam in four languages.

“We tried to keep it quiet last night. But the singing and instruments kind of took over!”

From our Facebook page, October 2026
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A violin and a guitar being played side by side on the floor cushions
A lantern-lit seating corner with red woven cushions under olive trees

Midnight Kind words

“Feels like the Dahab I know from many years ago.”

4.9 ★★★★★from 160 Google reviews · November 2026

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Find us

Yalla, come to Baseetä.

Where
Next to Asalah kindergarten, just south of Asalah Square, Dahab, South Sinai
بجوار حضانة العصلة، دهب · Plus code GG49+64
When
Every day, 4 PM – 2 AM
How
Dine in · Takeaway · Delivery
Phone
010 0382 9666
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