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Buffalo-milk ice cream and oriental pastries, on a Zamalek pavement since 1928.
CairoZamalek
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.
CairoDowntown
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
Foul, taameya and salads in a grotto-like room, steps from Tahrir square.
The king of Alexandrian-style liver, served on pavement tables until the middle of the night.
CairoImbaba
Home cooking, served in a tiny room, with the day's menu and nothing else.
The market of fabric by the metre, second-hand clothes and curtains: Cairo dresses here.
CairoBoulaq
The centre's biggest street market: everything is sold here, and everything is shouted.
CairoAttaba, Downtown
Downtown's food market: fruit, cheese, spices and fishmongers under a hall.
CairoBab el-Louk, Downtown
The shopping street linking Attaba to Khan el-Khalili, where Cairo buys everything.
CairoMuski, Islamic Cairo
Downtown's Arabic bookshop windows, and the second-hand stalls on the pavement.
A Friday morning market selling birds, pigeons and poultry, as it always has.
A cultural centre under a bridge, where young Cairo goes to gigs without alcohol.
Zar and Nubian music nights, in a small Downtown room.
Cairo's arthouse cinema, in a historic Downtown auditorium.
The national folk troupes — tanoura, Upper Egyptian dances, Nubian songs.
CairoAgouza
A Downtown rooftop that serves at any hour, including when everything else is shut.
Screenings on rooftops and in gardens, from June to September.
CairoCairo and the coast
The new capital's great mosque, inaugurated in 2019 in the desert east of Cairo.
CairoNew Administrative Capital
The largest cathedral in the Middle East, inaugurated in 2019 facing the mosque.
Twenty towers in the desert, including Africa's tallest: a skyline out of nowhere.
The khedives' state carriages, reopened to the public after twenty years of restoration.
