When a café draws the attention of Her Majesty Queen Rania, you know it’s not just pouring lattes. Bean There, the Amman-born coffee shop that has long been a favorite across Jordan, has now planted its flag in New Cairo, bringing with it a reputation polished by royalty.

Cafés in Cairo have already evolved into multipurpose habitats—offices for freelancers, gossip dens for friends, and holding bays for side hustles. Bean There slides neatly into that mix, except its beans come with report cards. Each batch is single-origin, graded into three tiers, and only the top level makes it into the cup. Those beans consistently score 85+ on the global coffee scale, with some nudging 93. It’s the sort of obsessive sourcing usually reserved for sommelier notes, now baked into your flat white.The interiors tell their own story. Instead of neon signs screaming But First, Coffee, the palette pulls directly from Petra and Wadi Rum—sky blues and sand tones that translate Jordan’s desert landscapes into New Cairo walls. It’s restraint as aesthetic, confidence by omission.Still, what’s getting talked about almost as much as the beans is the food. The Cairo outpost enlisted Lebanese-Brazilian Chef Patrick, known from MBC1, to shape the menu. Breakfast doesn’t stop at shakshouka and pancakes; croissants come plain, almond, pistachio, or—because why not—stuffed with scrambled eggs. Lunch pushes further with tacos, mini burgers, and pasta dishes like ricotta cannelloni and pesto penne. It’s a menu that skips borders the way Cairo skips traffic lights.Bean There started as a passion project in Amman, blending the intimacy of Middle Eastern coffee rituals with the pared-down focus of third-wave cafés. Its Egyptian debut carries that DNA but refuses the influencer gimmicks—no flower walls, no hashtags on the wall. Just beans, bread, and a quiet assurance that both are worth staying for.