The building is adjacent to the Great Wall in the Old City of Hebron Gate; its exterior appearance is in harmony appears to be adjacent and surrounding buildings, in the past. The elegance of the past and the elegance of the present, which features similar contemporary architectural models, and the Shdrawan “Al Barka”, as well as the fountain of water that was in the center of the Café back garden, still exist to this day. Without sitting around the same as the skakini and paralyzed, and the same type, if there are some remnants of the trees of the park, which shadroan shade, is still alive and looks proud of its tallness, which is ready for the skyscraper. The car birds and a ground bath are climbing the branches, while the wide cages that contained the pigeons and Indian chickens and domestic birds that It was Nastas Ananias and other Coterie spend some time in fondled also monitored.
The coffee shop has different names: “Café Almokhtar”,”Café Al-Taba” and “Café Abu Michel”, but the most famous name among them is “Café Alsaalik”. The name of this Café is not only in Jerusalem and in other
cities of Palestine, but also reached fame abroad, because Mukhtar Issa Taba was ambassador to the people of Jordan and Haifa and Jaffa Acre, Ramlah, Lod and Nazareth, who were on their way to Jerusalem, asking the Mukhtar for guidance and guidance. Those who wanted to make pilgrimages to Jerusalem from Beirut, Aleppo, Damascus or Karak meant the Mukhtar upon his arrival to Jerusalem to secure his sanctuary and visits to the holy places, entering Alqiama Church on the Holy Saturday, which preceded by Mukhtar Abu Michel.
The historical references say that the foreign fame enjoyed by the Café made it a title for the correspondence of Arab writers and intellectuals with their Palestinian counterparts, especially by the pilgrims who brought with them some newspapers, magazines, cultural and literary books, as well as literary and literary news in the cities from which they came.
Al-Sa’alik Café was the addressee in which the writer Khalil Sakakini received his guests, if a guest came to him, he not take him to his house, rather he would point him to a certain place in the Café, the guest sat with the bride and knew whom he did not know and knew. Sakakini of the Palestinians, but also of the Arabs, said hosted a large number of them in it, including Ahmed Zaki Pasha, Khalil Mtran and Maarouf Rusafi and others. Khalil Sakakini cut off from the coffee shop because of his travel to Cairo, and most of the newspapers and magazines moved to Jaffa and Haifa, which led to the interruption of coffee shop owners who worked in these newspapers. The other reason is the involvement of the intellectual circles in engaging in national political parties or in municipal policies, the city exposed to the Café for neglect, and the Café is still in its former state until now.