Majestic Café
Gilded Art Nouveau coffee house, revived after decline, linked to early Harry Potter drafts.
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This guide to the Majestic Café in Porto traces the room from its glittering opening in 1922 through decades of decline, to an anonymous regular in the early 1990s: a broke young English teacher who spent her afternoons at a corner table, ordering the cheapest coffee she could, and filling a notebook with the opening chapters of a story about an orphan and a school of wizards. Look up at the statues of Diana and Bacchus that watched over her scribbling.
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