Built in 1937, designed by an Italian architect, it sits at the intersection of Talaat Harb and Abd El Khalik Tharwat streets in the heart of Downtown Cairo — a bricks-and-mortar semaphore for a ...

I was delighted to see in Maria Shollenbarger’s cover story on Cairo’s Belle Époque buildings (“Rebirth on the Nile”, House & Home, February 22) that Groppi’s is still going strong.