Ranked shortlist · 10 of 84 cafes
Best cafes in Alexandria
The 10 most notable cafes in Alexandria, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Hambaka cafe
Alexandria
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.774, percentile 100 of 84
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2
Pablo Cafe and Restaurant
2 شارع زكى بدوى محمد، 267 El-Gaish Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.738, percentile 98.8 of 84
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3
East.tea.can - إستكانة
Iskander Ibrahim St.
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.693, percentile 97.59 of 84
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4
Fresca Mediterranean Bistro and Lounge
399 El Geish Road
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.616, percentile 96.39 of 84
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5
Sharek Fouad Cafe
94 Street 1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.584, percentile 95.18 of 84
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6
Alfakhora Art Studio
156 شارع عمر لطفي
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.539, percentile 93.98 of 84
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7
قهوة حمودة
59 Zakareya Ghoneim
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.535, percentile 92.77 of 84
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8
عمر افندى - Omar Afandi
الإسكندرية ،سيدي بشر بحري ،محمد نجيب الرئيسي
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.524, percentile 91.57 of 84
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9
Chi Chi Bakery and Cafe
، خلف ماكدنلز استانلي، عمارة الكويت،, Roushdy Basha
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.523, percentile 90.36 of 84
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10
Opyom Cafe & Restaurant
٤٢٢ طريق الجيش لوران بجوار بنك Saib فرع لوران\n\n٢٣٨ طريق الجيش عمارة ويمبى المعسكر الرومانى رشدى\n
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.382, percentile 89.16 of 84
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).