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You pick your fish off the ice, they grill it, you eat facing the harbour.
AlexandriaAnfoushi / Corniche
A Roman necropolis on three levels, where Anubis wears a legionary's armour.
AlexandriaKarmouz
Egypt's only surviving Roman theatre: thirteen tiers of marble in the middle of downtown.
AlexandriaKom el-Dikka
A 2002 library that has nothing of the ancient one but its name, and a reading room on eleven terraces.
AlexandriaShatby
A royal park by the sea where you visit the gardens, not the palace.
AlexandriaMontazah
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
A Mamluk fortress of the 1470s at the harbour point, over the ruins of the Pharos.
AlexandriaAnfoushi
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
Fish picked off the ice, grilled in the alley, eaten at plastic tables.
AlexandriaAnfoushi, Alexandria
Alexandria's antiques market: furniture, chandeliers and china from houses that closed.
AlexandriaAttarine, Alexandria
Alexandria's big mall, with a hypermarket and international brands.
AlexandriaCairo road, Alexandria
A 1921 Italian-style auditorium, the city's finest stage.
AlexandriaCity centre, Alexandria
Alexandria's fish eaten where it lands, facing Nelson's bay.
AlexandriaAbu Qir, east of Alexandria
A terrace above Qaitbay fort, with the whole bay in front.
An Alexandrian trattoria from the 1980s, checked tablecloths included.
Alexandrian grills in a big family room, open late.
Neighbourhood kofta and kebab, served on a production line for decades.
AlexandriaAlexandria
A Lebanese house in the centre, open at lunchtime only, as fifty years ago.
Fish and grills on an Agami beach, far from the centre's crowds.
AlexandriaAgami, west of Alexandria
A day in the pool on the Montazah Corniche, no room booked, for the price of a lunch.
AlexandriaMontazah, on the Corniche, opposite the park gate
