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Thirty hectares of green laid over five centuries of rubble, facing the Citadel.
CairoDarb el-Ahmar
Cairo's oldest café, open without interruption since the late 18th century.
CairoKhan el-Khalili
Not an address but a habit: chairs out on the square, a tea, a shisha, at any hour.
CairoAl-Hussein, Gamaliya
The ahwa of students, poets and insomniacs, in an alley behind Talaat Harb.
CairoDowntown
A vast room with bare walls where tea and beer have been served at the same tables for decades.
CairoBab el-Louk, Downtown
Two pedestrian lanes entirely covered in chairs: Cairo's largest open-air café.
The counter where Zamalek has taken its cappuccino standing up since 1898.
CairoZamalek
Buffalo-milk ice cream and oriental pastries, on a Zamalek pavement since 1928.
Maadi's shopping street, its terraces and its pavement ahwas.
CairoMaadi
The patisserie where you eat standing on the pavement, and where the queue is part of the pleasure.
The popular cafés around the mosque, where Cairo gathers after evening prayer.
CairoSayeda Zeinab
A patisserie of Greek origin, in Cairo since the beginning of the last century.
CairoSeveral addresses across Cairo
The street of instrument makers and wedding musicians, and its waiting cafés.
CairoMohamed Ali street, Cairo
The chain bakery that put fiteer and croissants on the same counter.
CairoAll across Cairo
Konafa, basbousa, om ali: Egyptian sweets sold by weight, all night.
CairoAll over Cairo
Cane pressed in front of you, for the price of a coin.
