Al-Beiruti Café (Arabic: مقهى البيروتي) is one of the oldest surviving coffeehouses in Baghdad, Iraq, located on the Tigris River, on the Karkh side of the city.
The oldest mention of the café was by the British journalist and traveler James Silk Buckingham when he visited Baghdad in 1819.
The corners of the back of the café were dedicated to gambling players, headed by Ibrahim al-Beiruti himself, which harmed the reputation of the coffeehouse once discovered.
In the Beiruti Café, many of the prominent Iraqi writers and poets were traditionalist who were eager to preserve Arabic literature and neo-classical poetry.
[5] In the spring of 1954, the levels of the Tigris River rose due to the abundance of rain, which led to the flooding of Baghdad and the sinking and destruction of the café.