Chez Bismilah SAND Coffee

The experience

A tiny coffee spot at 193 Souk El Kebir, a few steps from the Ben Youssef Medersa, where the owner Rahil makes coffee the Saharan way. He mixes ground beans with spices and iced water, then warms the small brass pot buried in a tray of hot sand, which brings it up slowly and leaves it dense and creamy like a Turkish coffee. He also pours a Yemeni coffee with a berry note. There is a terrace upstairs with a view over the souk roofs, and prices are souk prices, not café prices.

Sand-brewed Saharan coffee made one brass pot at a time in the middle of the souk — a technique you will not find in Gueliz.

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