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A hand holding an ice cream cone with a pink scoop and a cream scoop, out in the street.

Alexandria · Corniche and city centre

Alexandria's ice cream houses

Buffalo-milk and mastic ice cream, a Greek tradition that stayed Alexandrian.

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Alexandria inherited from the Greeks a dense ice cream, scented with mastic, eaten in a cone on the Corniche. Several old houses still make it, and the summer evening queue is part of the scene.

The extra bit

Ask for mastic ("mastika"): the historic flavour, and it tastes like nothing else.

Know before you go

Cash, long queues on summer evenings, counter service with no seating.

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Corniche and city centre, Alexandria

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