Cairo · ice cream
Mandarine Koueider
It is the only candidate found with both a documented near-century of continuous operation and a specific, named, independently-reviewed ice-cream product, plus current 2024 recognition from Cairo's own consumer-facing editorial guide.
What to order
The berry-and-yogurt ice-cream torte (تورتة آيس كريم الزبادي بالتوت) — named as their famous item by Cairo360, 2016-06-24
What we know
- Founding narrative, told on the company's own site: 'started in 1930 from a captivating journey to Damascus' that inspired Abdel Rahim Koueider's father to make sweets — 'بدأت قصتنا 1930 من رحلة ساحرة إلى دمشق والتي ألهمت والد عبد الرحيم قويدر' — koueider.com/about
- Named directly in Cairo360's 2024 editors' picks for ice cream: 'ماندرين قويدر... قدم أشهى الآيس كريم على مدار أجيال' (Mandarine Koueider has served the most delicious ice cream for generations) — Cairo360, 2024-05-30
- Its named signature ice-cream item, per an independent 2016 Cairo360 review, is a yogurt-and-berry ice-cream torte ('تورتة آيس كريم الزبادي بالتوت المشهورة'), not a rice-based product
- A chain of 30+ branches per its own site ('+30 فرع'), operating for close to a century ('+90 سنة') — a scale and longevity almost no other Cairo ice-cream business in this research can match
- Family narrative: emigrated from old Damascus to Egypt in 1926, opening its first Cairo branch two years later
- Status
- open
- Address
- 17 Shagaret El Dorr Street, Zamalek (17 شارع شجرة الدر، الزمالك)
- Maker
- Founded by the father of Abdel Rahim Koueider (عبدالرحيم قويدر), per the company's own site; no ice-cream-specific maker named
- Opened
- 1930
- Website
- www.koueider.com/en
- Last checked
- 2026-08-22
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