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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
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
Not an address but a habit: chairs out on the square, a tea, a shisha, at any hour.
CairoAl-Hussein, Gamaliya
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 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.
The air-conditioned stop in the heart of the souk, when the bazaar becomes too much for the legs.
A neighbourhood bookshop with a few tables, where you stay longer than planned.
A Nile terrace at the southern tip of Zamalek, for a coffee that lasts until dinner.
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.
Maadi's shopping street, its terraces and its pavement ahwas.
The patisserie where you eat standing on the pavement, and where the queue is part of the pleasure.
