Old is Gold: 05/21/16

Trianon Cafe (Alexandria)

When you are in Alexandria, try to wake up early someday and get yourself down to El Raml Station. There, you’ll find Trianon Café . The place has been there for decades , since 1905and it is a french cafe. In the early 20th century it has been established by two Greeks. the beginning of Trianon in Europe was around the year 1555, is best known as a place to drink tea. When he had opened in Alexandria in 1905 at the time of the community was a world first class. Trianon Cafe is famed to this day for its tea , delicious breakfast , fulfilling brunch, lunch, dinner and coffee

This is a place with history, and has a great location in the heart of Alexandria, giving you the energy and feel of the city of Alexandria. The first thing Trianon intervention is the sense of royal affection which is not strange for the place that was hosting great artistic symbols and senior figures "Om Kalthoum" and Greek poet Cavafy

Trianon in Alexandria is one of the coffee shops which attracts tourists and all those who want to go back to the time of Black and White which we see in the movies must visit Trianon.

Delices Cafe (Alexandria)

In the heart of Alexandria , second major Egyptian cities, cafe "ديليس" Délices which is in Raml Station Corniche since 1907, exchanging tales of lovers who have dug their own stories on the walls. Delices is a French name means joy or pleasure, which is one of the largest known cafes in Alexandria and one of the most popular tourist locations. «Delice» as well as one of the most important monuments in the ancient Greek city, because it tells the mouthpiece of the community fell in love with Alexandria and passion Alexandrians.

Who founded "Delices" is the Greek Kulovlos Mustakas in the early twentieth century, but the official opening was delayed to 1922.

More about Delices : -

-Delices served the Allied forces during WWII, while they were stationed in Alexandria.

-Delices was chosen as the private caterer to the Egyptian Royal Palace, catering birthdays, and diplomatic events

-In 2011/2012 Delices was awarded "Best Pastry Shop" in Egypt by the Ministry of Tourism

-Delices regularly caters to many tourist groups from around the world particularly tourists from Greece, France, Austria, Germany, Italy, and USA. Thus, many of our pastries are influenced from the aforementioned countries.-Delices has the only French & Greek restaurant; la Veranda, in Alexandria. Try their famous Yuvetsi Pasta, Youverlakia meatballs or Steak Frites.

Athade Cafe (cairo)

The cafe usually organizes lunches "buffet" system in dealing with the huge dining room in the restaurant .
try to get there early in the morning to enjoy coffee and breakfast, accompanied by Alexandrian of the people of the country's indigenous customers. You will have the ability to enjoy the calm that you need to consider freely to the decoration details of the place: Ceilings and walls decorated with furniture and high-rise art-deco-style columns and beautiful luxury columns .

Rich Cafe ( Cairo )

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Café Rich was founded in the year 1908 in the center of Cairo and it is the largest gathering of intellectuals and politicians in the region. The café sits near Talaat Harb Square. It was founded by a German, and sold it in 1914 to Henry Bear whogave the café its name (Rich) . Now Magdy Mikhail own the café , he is the first Egyptian owner of a guardian. The cafe was thhe place where writers and intellectuals such as Naguib Mahfouz, Youssef Idris, and hope Donqol, and Yahya Taher Abdullah, and Salah Sahin, and Tharwat Abaza, Naguib Sorour and Kam
al Mallakh, and others who were keen that they attend Alndaut weekly Naguib Mahfouz meet .

Elite Cafe (Alexandria)

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In the famous street Safia Zaghloul in Alexandria and close to Raml Station Square sits cafe «Elite» one of the most famos cafes Greek community in the fifties of the last century it retains its smile and date stamp . and It is known that the Greeks lived Egypt as ordinary citizens, have restaurants, cafes, grocery stores and pastry and casinos and it was mostly stationed in central city of Alexandria . Among the restaurants that date back to this era, the restaurant «Elite» which is characterized as more than just a coffee shop or a cafeteria, but technically and culturally museum, meant artists, writers and celebrities. «Elite» was owned by Madame «Cristina Costantino» she is one of the most famous Greeks who lived in Alexandria . «Elite» is characterized by the simple appearance ,attractive from the outside ,is more like a big hut can coexist through the glass windows of the broad spirit of the city and pulse. The pioneers of the place representing all categories of children and young people, businessmen, retirees and elderly people regain their memories in this privileged place. The cafe attracts fans also in his specialty drinks and Greek cuisine and Eastern special taste, which offered cheaply to the sound of oriental music and classic European.

Teatro Alexandria ( Alexandria )

«Teatro Alexandria» is located in the heart of Little Italy Bride of the Mediterranean, a place that was predominantly Italian community in Alexandria Cosmopolitan, Occupying a prime location in Fouad street in central Alexandria, close to the «Teatro Muhammad Ali» or Alexandria Opera currently constructed in 1921, for wearing Fouad Street, the oldest streets of the world and the streets of Alexandria, The history of this ancient street dating back to the Ptolemaic and they call it «canopic way», where the Set with marble columns was from its beginning to its end .
About its cultural project, says Dr. Mahmoud Abu Doma, director of theatrical: “(Teatro Alexandria) is a dream for more than 30 years, he worked during them in the paths of Egyptian cultural life , and traveled the world through theater festival, but the light of my dream to come back to Alexandria Cultural glare which was, and after the revolution of January 2011, Is not to be just a cultural cafe, but the cultural arena in the widest sense of the word, the artistic activities and cultural programs and exercise all, on multiple levels, ranging from technical presentations and training, dialogue and children's programs And provide the performances, and stand-up comedy and musical sketches, and shows to sell handmade products Egyptian artists, as well as being carries the cultural aspects of the Egyptian cafe, where we offer only the Egyptian Food »
And his choice of the name whether it is linked to its location beside Teatro Muhammad Ali, he said: «no it’s Is inspired by the spirit of the Italian place, and the word (Teatro) is a word primarily Italian (Il teatro), which means theater”