Le Café LPM, La Petite Maison's café, is coming to Al Khobar's Bayfront
The relaxed all-day café from the people behind La Petite Maison is set to open at Bayfront on Al Khobar Corniche, its first address in the Eastern Province. An opening date has not been announced.
Le Café LPM, the more casual café brand from the team behind La Petite Maison, is getting ready to open at Bayfront on Al Khobar Corniche. It will be the café's first address in Saudi Arabia, and it brings a name that Riyadh diners already know from LPM's restaurant in the capital to the Eastern Province.
The deal was announced by Al Muhaidib Group, which owns the Bayfront project, and Ajdan Real Estate Development, which is building it. Their announcement in June described Bayfront as the kingdom's first open beach destination on the Al Khobar Corniche and named Le Café LPM as one of its anchor tenants. The partners first aimed for September, but that date has passed, and the latest reports this week still describe the café as set to open. No new date has been published.
La Petite Maison started in London in 2007 and now runs restaurants in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Hong Kong, Miami and Riyadh. Le Café LPM is its lighter, all-day spin-off. The first one opened in Dubai, and a residency at The Lanesborough hotel in London followed. LPM's chief executive, Nicolas Budzynski, called the café a more relaxed and playful expression of the French Riviera lifestyle.
The Al Khobar menu has not been revealed yet. In Dubai the café serves pastries and an orange-blossom sweet bread in the morning, eggs and open sandwiches, a Niçoise-style salad and a croque at lunch, then grilled chicken, steak with fries and Dover sole, with dark chocolate mousse and caramel custard to finish. Expect the same French Mediterranean direction on the Corniche, with coffee, lunch and dinner under one roof.
For residents of Al Khobar, Dammam and Dhahran, this is a sit-down French option right on the waterfront rather than inside a mall. Opening hours, prices and booking details have not been announced. Bayfront is on the Al Khobar Corniche; the best way to hear the date first is LPM's own Instagram, @lpmrestaurants, and we will update this story when the doors open.