Damascus · 1945Havana Café
On Port Said Street since 1945: the poets’ coffeehouse, backgammon tables, a Damascene breakfast. Expropriation saved it from becoming shops in the 1980s.
Arabic coffee beside French and Italian style brews; a Damascene breakfast in the morning — hummus, fatteh, ful · Cheap; people sit for hours over one glass of tea — ask the price at the door · Damascus