Cairo street food comes to Enmore Road

Mix Sydney's hottest eat street with a generous serve of international food trend and you'd serve up a falafel joint on Enmore Road.

Which is exactly what Hesham El Masry, owner of Plunge No. 46 in Summer Hill, is planning for the strip.

His yet-to-be-named Cairo street food eatery will open in a few months in an old real estate office on an eating strip currently roaring up the Sydney charts.

After a number of recent openings, Enmore Road will next digest Merivale's rejuvenation of the Queen Victoria Hotel and Porteno chef Ibrahim Kasif's Stanbuli restaurant, which opens in July.

El Masry says the success of falafel in places New York City has a lot to do with Israelis, but believes in the theory falafel has its origins in Egypt.

He says the original ANZACS might've snacked on them while training in Egypt, on the way to Gallipoli.

"It has been made for centuries. We prefer fava beans to chickpeas because it's moister. We'll be making it fresh, it won't be one of those places where it comes out of a bain-marie."