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The tea room of cosmopolitan Cairo, faded and now under restoration. Come for the decor and the story.
CairoTalaat Harb, Downtown
Downtown's café of writers and conspirators, opened in 1908.
An early twentieth-century patisserie and brasserie, painted ceilings intact, on Saad Zaghloul Square.
AlexandriaSaad Zaghloul, Raml
A Greek patisserie of the 1920s: you pick from the chilled cabinet, prices on the labels.
AlexandriaSaad Zaghloul
Properly extracted specialty coffee — the one address in town that takes the subject seriously.
HurghadaHurghada
The air-conditioned stop in the heart of the souk, when the bazaar becomes too much for the legs.
CairoKhan el-Khalili
A neighbourhood bookshop with a few tables, where you stay longer than planned.
CairoZamalek
The Egyptian café chain you find everywhere, and that always does the job.
CairoSeveral addresses across Cairo
The other long-standing Cairo chain, for late breakfasts and informal meetings.
Egyptian specialty coffee, roasted in-house and served by baristas who explain.
The neighbourhood patisserie where Cairo families buy the Friday cake.
An independent bookshop and publisher, with a café where people work all afternoon.
CairoMaadi
The bookshop that reopened Cairo's appetite for reading, with a café corner at the back.
The cakes and cupcakes Cairenes bring when they are invited somewhere.
A Belle Époque room facing the sea, with a view of the bay and of a century of Alexandria.
AlexandriaCorniche, Alexandria
A comfortable café overlooking Stanley bay, to work or to linger.
AlexandriaStanley, Alexandria
Heliopolis's neo-Moorish arcades, their terraces and their patisseries.
CairoHeliopolis
In five years, Cairo has gone from instant coffee to single-origin filter — and the roasters are Egyptian.
CairoZamalek, Maadi, Tagamoa
