The eight favorite cafes of literati taste the aroma of bookish coffee.

In Europe, coffee culture can be said to be a very mature cultural form, from coffee into this continent, to the emergence of Europe's first cafe, coffee culture with extremely rapid development, showing a very vigorous vitality.

In Vienna, Austria, coffee, music and waltz dance are called "Vienna Three Treasures", which shows the profound significance of coffee culture.

There is a famous Italian saying: "Men should be like good coffee, strong and full of enthusiasm!" How unusual it is to equate men with coffee.

Italians love coffee, coffee has become the most basic and important factor in their lives. The first thing Italians do when they wake up is brew a cup of coffee. Both men and women, coffee cups are almost always in hand from morning till night.

A cup of steaming coffee can sometimes not only "warm" the heart and spleen, but also inspire people. It is said that many Nobel Prize winners benefit from that cup of strong coffee. So where are the favorite cafes of literati?

1. El Fishawy Coffee Shop

Location: Cairo, Egypt

Savi Cafe is located in Khan el Khalil Bazaar, an ancient maze-like bazaar. For two centuries, this smoky cafe has been a favorite retreat for literati. The Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz was inspired by a dreamlike setting of tin lamps glowing yellow under crisscrossing arches, guests sitting around rickety brass-faced round tables, steaming cups filled with mint Ceylon tea or pure coffee, and arab hookah pipes smelling of apricot tobacco.

2. Central Cafe (Hungary, Central Kavehaz)

Location: Budapest, Hungary

Since its founding in 1887, the Central Café has been Budapest's cultural centre (except for the days when it changed ownership to become a pepper market, disco, amusement centre), its elegant posture like a white lotus in a mud pond in the hustle and bustle of Budapest. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Central Cafe has been associated with countless celebrities, including Hungarian celebrities Jozsef Kiss, Mihalf Babits and the poet Geza Gyni. To this day, writers still love to come to this cafe, reading a book, sipping a cappuccino full of thick milk foam and tasting a delicate dessert such as cherry yogurt cake in front of the wide French windows and under the high ceiling, accompanied by the light of brass chandeliers.

3. Antico Caff Greco

Location: Rome, Italy

Located on Via Condotti near Piazza del España, the Greek Cafe features marble tables, sofa seats and tuxedo-clad waiters that give the illusion of going back in time, as if back to the 1760s. For decades, Greek cafes have been a must-see for vacations to Rome, and their delicious caramel macchiato has always been a delight. Goethe, Byron, Berlioz, Dickens, Keats and Mark Twain all spent time in Rome's oldest cafe. What are you hesitating about?

4. Café Central

What if you want a revolution? Then come to Central Cafe. It was in this cafe that the famous Russian Marxists Vladimir Lenin and Lev Trotsky established their future struggles. Café Centrale is a curved vaulted building that is Vienna's main meeting place and has been frequented by many Austrian celebrities. From Freud to architect Adolf Loos to modern poet Peter Attenberg, a simple cup of coffee and a thin apple roll can inspire unexpected ideas. Although the cafe opened in 1876, it still shines today, with gilded columns in the lobby and exquisite desserts in the pastry cabinet, including Linzer cake, Esterhazy cake, sand rack cake...

5. Caf Tortoni

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Cafe Totoni was founded by a Frenchman in 1858. As the oldest cafe in Argentina, this cafe has always been the stage for the perfect fusion of Parisian aesthetics and Argentine intellectualism. Café Totoni is a Frenchman's nostalgic cafe from home: amber pillars supporting the ceiling, stained glass walls and marble-topped tables. Buenos Aires writer Jorge Borges often stayed here, and Albert Einstein visited and tasted the cafe's Alfajores. At nightfall, improvised jazz, tango or poetry readings are staged.

6. Le Procope

Location: Paris, France

Café Prokop is located at 13 Rue Saint-Germain on the Left Bank of the Seine. It opened in 1686 and is the oldest cafe in Paris, France. Many literary greats throughout history have been diehard fans of this cafe, including early Voltaire, Ben Franklin, Hugo and 20th century literary greats Jean Paul Sartre, Simone Beauvoir and Albert Camus. A number of cafes in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, including Hemingway's Les Deux Magots and Apollinaire's La Closerie des Lilas, were influenced by Café Procop.

7. Long Bar Cafe

Location: Raffles Hotel Singapore

Ceiling fans, rattan chairs and candy-colored cocktails, the Long Bar Cafe has a colonial feel to it. In 1910, bartender Yan Chongwen mixed gin, cherry brandy and fresh pineapple juice to make the world-famous "Singapore Sling" cocktail in Raffles Hotel Long Bar Cafe. But it was the celebrity writers who stayed in the café that made it more famous: Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Maugham all sat at low tables in the long bar, stealing a noontime to compose novel plots.

8. University Street Cafe

Location: Kolkata, India

University Street Cafe is not far from Kolkata University. Writers, artists and scholars of all ages liked to talk in the dense fragrance of this cafe, and many political and cultural movements began to sprout here. The modest cafe opened in 1942 and has been frequented by celebrities such as Bengali Renaissance magnate Tagore, film maestro Sayjit Rey and singer Manna Dey. The cafe serves a wide variety of coffee and is a favorite gathering place for college students.