Towns through its Cafes
In 1942, Angel Martínez bought out the small Bodega La Complaciente in Empedrado Street, in the old Havana district. He renamed the place Casa Martínez. Angel Martínez sold typical Cuban products and, from time to time, served dinner to the regulars. But mainly, the people who were found at the Casa Martínez, were there to […]
The Pierre Loti cafe is a rather modest teahouse that offers a variety of non-alcoholic drinks as well as basic snacks. It’s the location and the spectacular views over the Golden Horn that make this place worthwhile. Since the cafe is dedicated to Pierre Loti (see below), the furniture and the waiter’s clothes refer to […]
It is here that one of the most famous songs in the world was composed, whose title has been given to the cafe : “A Garota de Ipanema” and composed by the famous brasilian Bossa Nova singer Joao Gilberto . Every day, the authors of the song, composer Tom Jobim and poet Vinicius de Moraes, […]
The “Closerie des Lilas” was a former post house, near the famous Bullier Ball, and attracted partygoers, including many writers: Émile Zola, Paul Verlaine, Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier and the Parnassian poets.At the beginning of the 20th century , the playwright Paul Fort played chess with a futur revolutionary , Lenin. But it is with […]
One of the oldest cafes in Cairo and arguably the most famous in the Arab world. Located in the heart of the labyrinthine souk Khan el-Khalili, El-Fishawi has seen, for 240 years, intellectuals, people of the quarter, merchants, deliverers of the souk, celebrities and anonymous. You have to go there to discover how cafes are […]