Talaat Harb Square glows under the streetlights, shop windows are lit and trams rattle by. This was Groppi Café in Talaat Harb Square during the 1950s. He then opened a branch in Cairo’s Abdel Khalek Tharwat Street in 1909, followed by the famous branch in Talaat Harb Square in 1924. Its Talaat Harb branch, with its art deco interiors and garden stage, was used as a backdrop in Egyptian cinema. Nowadays, Groppi remains open and stands as a piece of Cairo’s history.