What make El Harafish café popular is its
presence at the beginning of King Faisal Street in Giza, also the trees
surrounding it .. El Harafish kept each evening to provide a varied cultural program,
combining playing and singing for models of lyrical Egyptian and Arab heritage.
The Interior design of El Harafish is unique; it consists of six pillars, each
of them takes the name of a culture icons in Egypt: Corner Yusuf Idris, corner
Naguib Mahfouz, and another writer Mahmoud el-Saadani, corner another
consists of images of the famous dancer
Badia Masabni and Om Kulthum, Munira Mahdia in addition to the Tunisian corner of
Perm, the corner is characterized nomadic Bedouin Arab character and décor.
El Fishawi cafe is a very famous café in Cairo .
In addition to that it is one of the oldest cafes of Cairo, where dates back to
its inception in 1797, before more than two centuries
However, it has become more famous and glamorous, because of the Egyptian
writer Naguib Mahfouz, who his favorite café was El Fishawi ,
Once you enter the café u feel that you
almost smell the scent of history in its lands, the brown burned color of timber
and yellow walls and dark due to smoke hookah (shisha) and the effects of time,
made it a place of pilgrimage for lovers of authenticity. And its presence in the heart of Fatimid Cairo
filled with shrines tourist archaeological making patrons strange mixture
between the Egyptians and tourists, Arabs and foreigners of all nationalities
who were surprised by the atmosphere of the east .
The café began with a small buffet set up by Haj Ali Fahmi Fishawi in 1797 in
the heart of the Khan el-Khalili sitting pioneers Khan «Khalili» Egyptians and
tourists, and was able to buy the neighboring shops, turning it into a large
cafe with three rooms
Diaa ,grandson of Haj Ali Fishawi , says that the relationship of the late
writer Naguib Mahfouz with the café was so stong , “Mahfouz was always sitting in
the cafe, and was a friend of my parents, and most of his novels was written in the cafe, and he loved the nights of
Ramadan listening to the singing singers folk Mohammed Abdul Muttalib Mohammed
Kahlawi and he was joining them " 
