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Grand Cafe Maadi

  • February 27, 2002
  • Rated 4 of 5 by Ben the Grate from Dallas, Texas
Grand Cafe Maadi

Any time of the year, Grand Cafe is an exquisite place to sit back, relax, and enjoy the Nile scenery, especially at sunset.

The Cafe has a modest menu of traditional Arabic food, but I usually don't eat here. I come here to drink tea, chat with friends, watch people walk by on the street, and watch felucas sailing on the Nile. It makes a great place for a pre-dinner drink.

Spring through Fall the cafe is mostly an open air terrace with comfortable tables and booths. In the winter, they screen the whole thing in and bring propane heaters to warm you if it's chilly.

Service (as usual in Egypt) is exponentially slower than in the U.S., so be patient!

This place is popular with expats living in Maadi (the expat center of Cairo), as well as with tourists and well-to-do locals.

To get to Grand Cafe (most cabbies do not know it), have your cabbie drive south on the Corniche, and once you enter Maadi and pass the big gas station on your left, have him slow down and you'll see Grand Cafe on your right a few hundred feet later. Or, take the Metro to Al Maadi station, exit and walk west towards the Nile. When you hit the Cornice (last street before the Nile), turn left and you'll reach the cafe shortly after.

From journal Survive Cairo! (the rest of the world is easy)

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