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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.
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.
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
