Ranked shortlist · 10 of 55 cafes
Best cafes in Cairo
The 10 most notable cafes in Cairo, 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
CAFE FRAIS
3 Saraya El Gezira Street, Zamalek
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.500, percentile 100 of 55
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2
SKY RIM
48 شارع الاهرام
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.482, percentile 98.15 of 55
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3
Room Art Space and Cafe
10 Etehaad Al Mohamin
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.474, percentile 96.3 of 55
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4
Kapri Café
9 Al Shawarbi
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.471, percentile 94.44 of 55
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5
Café Voilà!
RT U02 & U03, Gate 10, Mamsha Ahl Misr, B09 Nile Corniche
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.468, percentile 92.59 of 55
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6
Holm Cafe
14 الشيخ المرصفي، عمر الخيام، الزمالك،
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.378, percentile 90.74 of 55
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7
بن عبد المعبود الأصلي
1 شارع مظلوم باشا
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.220, percentile 88.89 of 55
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8
Cave.Eat.Play
23 Gamal Al Din Dwidar
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.157, percentile 87.04 of 55
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9
Kemet – كيميت Rooftop Café
30 Sherif Basha
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 2.114, percentile 85.19 of 55
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10
30 North Iconia
16 Mohammed Thakeb
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.098, percentile 83.33 of 55
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 calibration: 533 Michelin-starred restaurants in the catalogue were checked against their own group. It is the only designation that covers more than one place, so the ranking is corroborated for restaurants and uncorroborated elsewhere — the manifest says so per run. 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).