Windsor Hotel Bar.

There's few places around Cairo that capture the charms of a bygone, cosmopolitan era in such a melancholic and authentic fashion like the bar at the Windsor Hotel. Tucked away in unassuming Alfi Bey St off the main 26 July thoroughfare, the Windsor is a true gem among the otherwise most unauthentically refurbished colonial-era hotels in the Egyptian capital (if they still exist in the first place). You might be forgiven for thinking the entire place has closed for business year ago and is by now completely defunct but nobody cared to close the door. Indeed, the few members of staff occupying their posts at various spots around the premises seem as lost as the odd tourist that finds his way into the Windsor. Once you have settled for a cosy armchair of your choice in the 1st-floor bar, however, lights flicker on, a distant radio magically jumps to live and a cold Stella comes your way almost instantaneously as if you have crossed a motion detector hidden somewhere in one of the antlers adorning the walls. Bring a few friends or a good book and enjoy some blue-hour bliss after a hard day's work. This is downtown Cairo at its best.

http://www.windsorcairo.com/