Manal and Alaa's bit bucket

Now now, as a former AUC student myself, I dont think its fair to say that the only people who like the ambiance are pretentious AUC students, although they would be part of the group of people who do. Cilantro Maadi is located in a pretty decent place and the outside terrace is damn fine in good weather.

Also, not all of their food sucks. Some, and only some, of their sandwiches are pretty decent. It just depends though if that specific item has a high turnover rate; if people like it, its consumed quickly and you have a good chance of getting a relatively fresh sandwich.

Finally, I do agree that its expensive for a place like that. The prices for their coffees are exorbitant!

Snefru

Wifi at Cilantro el-Korbah works ok no technical issues... Only had two mugs of coffee so don't know about the food. Infact I never tried eating anything in Cilantro I only ordered coffee.

The place is noisy though .. so working or trying to concentrate on anything is impossible.

Gave the Zamalek branch a visit. Aksed the waiter if wireless service is working and he said yes only to say no after few seconds when I opened the laptop and found no signal. He said something about the service being down for the last couple of days and I think he murmuring something about them always having troubles with the service

They used to serve nice mushroom and tomato soup in the winter. You could also grab what you wanted for yourself from the fridge, and their hot chocolate was good (now it sucks) and the few Sudanese waiters were cheerful. But all of a sudden they turned into a multiple-branch you-pasha-sit-down-and-we-serve-you kind of shop, raising their prices even more and loosing their casual and cosy atmosphere.