Café Latte

Snacktime and MacDonald's have extra competition for tourists looking for a drink or small snack. Cafe Latte is on the first , second and third floors of one of the longer established buildings behind Luxor Temple, a few doors away from MacDonald's and only slightly further from Snacktime.

As its name suggests, Cafe Latte serves coffee - not just latte but a wide range including an excellent cappuccino for LE10. There is also an excellent selection of teas from LE4 and cold cans from LE6.

The range of snacks does not match the offerings at the neighbouring competition, but croissants are good for LE5.50 and other pastries are LE7, cakes LE10 and pancakes and paninis LE12.

There is a choice of traditional seating at tables or plenty of soft chairs and sofas from which you can still see the temple. On the second of the cafe's floors is a small children's play area. Just like its neighbours, it has balconies on every level to help you enjoy and uninterrupted view of the back of Luxor Temple and the Nile and West Bank beyond.

Just along the road there are also Ali Baba, Hamees and Sindbad, although Hamees and Sindbad are open-air rather than traditional restaurants and all three are due to be demolished in or around the spring to make way for further city centre development. Whilst they survive, these provide a wider range of proper meals as well as lighter refreshment. If you really just want a drink and something very light to eat, Cafe Latte is definitely worth a try. For light refreshments we like Snacktime more than MacDonald's, but when we don't want much by way of eats, we like Cafe Latte even more.

 

Reviewed February 2012
Prices at February 2012