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Cilantro
This popular, clean café - part of a locally owned chain - does excellent Italian-style coffee and Twinings tea. Other branches just about everywhere you turn. All offer free wi-fi, strong air-con and a stash of magazines and newspapers.
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Coffee Roastery
Its fast-food menu, blaring music videos and young staff make this an extremely popular meeting place for groups of young locals. The coffee, served in 30 different ways, is surprisingly good. Don't bother with the food.
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Groppi's
Distinctly not part of the new coffee wave, Groppi's high point was more than 50 years ago. Now it just seems haunted. The offerings are poor and overpriced, and the tearoom reeks of cheap tobacco. For nostalgia buffs only.
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Kawkab ash-Sharq
Dedicated to the 'Star of the Orient', Umm Kolthum. Look for the huge busts of the singer out front.
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Pottery Café
AUC students set up camp here, chowing down on big salads, stuffed baked potatoes and sandwiches. For coffee, though, you're better off at one of the other cafés on this strip.
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The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
At this branch of the American coffee chain most associated with Hollywood celebrity sightings, the clientele wears similarly large sunglasses and jewels. There's a strict no-tipping policy - which may or may not be connected with the occasional complaints of incorrect change-making. Still, the coffee is very good.
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Zahret al-Bustan
A sometime haunt of intellectuals and writers - and students and backpackers.
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