Our Story · Est. 1922
A hundred years on Saad Zaghloul Street.
One family. One counter. One city that grew up on our cakes.
In 1922, a Greek confectioner named Cleovolous Moustakas — trading in Alexandria since 1907 — opened a small patisserie on Saad Zaghloul Street. Word of his éclairs, his candied almonds and the ice-cream flavours he invented spread across the Mediterranean pearl. Soon, the royal palace was calling.
We baked the coronation cake for King Farouk in 1937, and his royal wedding cake to Queen Farida in 1938. For decades since, we have served Egypt’s palaces, ministers and statesmen — and, far more importantly, the families of Alexandria.
The hundred years
A timeline of sweetness.
A Greek confectioner at Ramleh Station
Cleovoulos Moustakas, a Greek confectioner, begins trading on the Corniche at Ramleh Station — a bakery, pastry shop, chocolaterie and salon de thé all at once, with machines for dragées and a signature dandourma ice cream.
A French visitor gives us our name
The legal papers are finalised and the shop is formally established. The name is born the same year: a French guest, tasting the pastries, calls them “une merveille de délices” — a marvel of delights. Délices it has been ever since.
By royal appointment
Délices bakes both the coronation cake and the wedding cake of King Farouk, and caters Greek, Italian and French receptions across the cosmopolitan city — the beginning of a long service to Egypt's palaces and statesmen.
A city's living room
After the revolution, even President Nasser's family keep celebrating at Délices. The café becomes woven into Alexandrian life — coffee after Greek funerals, special pastries at Christmas and Easter, wicker chairs outside to watch the world go by.
The same family, the next hundred years
Still owned and run by the founding Greek family — grandson Ioannis Antoniou keeps the legacy, the 1920s recipes still made by hand. A working museum on-site holds a century of history, and millions now follow along online.
The Délices Museum
A hundred years, kept on the wall.
Inside our flagship, a working museum holds more than a century of Délices — the old cash registers, the typewriters, the hand-painted signs, the photographs. Welcome to Alexandria, the pearl of the Mediterranean. Come for the cake; stay for the history.
From our family to yours
“For more than a hundred years, the same family has stood behind this counter in Alexandria. We baked for your great-grandparents and your grandparents; we made the cake at your parents' wedding. It would be our honour to serve your family — and, one day, your children's children. That is the whole of our ambition: another hundred years of belonging to you.”
— The Antoniou family · Délices, since 1922