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The neighbourhood patisserie where Cairo families buy the Friday cake.
CairoSeveral addresses across Cairo
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.
CairoZamalek
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.
CairoDowntown
The popular cafés around the mosque, where Cairo gathers after evening prayer.
CairoSayeda Zeinab
The cakes and cupcakes Cairenes bring when they are invited somewhere.
A patisserie of Greek origin, in Cairo since the beginning of the last century.
A vast terrace at the tip of the island, where shisha is smoked with your feet above the Nile.
CairoNorthern tip of Zamalek
The Cairo pub where matches are watched, with a beer list that is wide for the country.
CairoMaadi and other districts
Heliopolis's neo-Moorish arcades, their terraces and their patisseries.
CairoHeliopolis
Egyptian cooking served in a dark oriental salon, cushions and lanterns included.
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.
Levantine mezze in a vaulted cellar, close to the Corniche.
CairoGarden City
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
The Khan's goldsmiths, where gold is sold by the gram and the work is charged separately.
CairoKhan el-Khalili
An Egyptian craft shop facing the Ibn Tulun mosque, with no haggling and no pressure.
CairoIbn Tulun, Darb el-Ahmar
Crafts from rural cooperatives, at marked prices, with the workshop's name on the label.
Bedouin jewellery and Nubian silver, in a Zamalek gallery-flat.
Bookshop and crafts on the first floor of a Talaat Harb building, facing the Egyptian Museum.
Cairo's last hand bookbinding workshop, behind the al-Azhar mosque.
CairoAl-Azhar, Darb el-Ahmar
