Le Café NAC opens a winter terrace at Aseel Resort in Diriyah on 5 November

Le Café NAC, the café-brasserie from London's Belgravia, opens a winter residency at Aseel Resort in Diriyah on Thursday 5 November. It will serve every day from 6pm to midnight on an outdoor terrace in Wadi Hanifah, as Riyadh's outdoor dining season gets going again.

The original Le Café NAC sits on Motcomb Street in London, where it is known as an all-day spot: breakfast, a casual lunch, coffee or dinner. The style is a French-inspired brasserie with marble-topped tables, and the London menu gives comfort food a modern touch, with breakfast burritos, tuna melts, ricotta pancakes, burgers and black truffle rigatoni. Its best-known dessert is crushed milk chocolate cookies with soft serve and crispy cereal. The full menu for Diriyah has not been published yet, so it is not known which of these dishes will make the trip.

The first pictures of the Diriyah space show an open-air terrace with bistro chairs, small round tables, table lamps, greenery and outdoor heaters, under large circular canopies. The team already knows the site and the city. NAC has an established brasserie at Laysen Valley in Riyadh, and it has run a seasonal Winter Garden at Aseel Resort before, an outdoor dining space with heaters and sunset views over Wadi Hanifah. This residency brings the lighter, café side of the brand rather than the full NAC restaurant.

The residency is billed as a winter stay. It opens only in the evening, from 6pm, when the weather in the valley is at its best, and no closing date has been announced yet.

Bookings are already open on The Chefz app and website, where it is listed as Le Café NAC Diriyah, and there is a booking fee of SAR 50 per person. It opens on 5 November and runs daily from 6pm to midnight at Aseel Resort, Wadi Hanifah, Diriyah. Prices for the dishes have not been announced, so check the menu when you book, and book ahead for weekend evenings.