By Ahmed Al-Bar

If you haven’t heard about the grand opening of Lenôtre restaurant & café, you must have been sleeping under a rock. Finally the famous upscale chain of the French Master Pastry Chef Gaston Lenôtre cafés and restaurants has arrived here in Jeddah serving a wide range of French Cuisines.

Starters & Salads

Most of you surely would know Lenôtre from their famous French pastry and chocolates sold in Jeddah for a while now, think of the restaurant as the icing over the cake.

Once you walk into Lenôtre Café, you will be instantly engulfed by a warm relaxing environment, that would welcome you inside. Once seated you can make your selection from a wide range of salads and starters, yet Lenôtre is one of the few places in town that offers a huge lobster salad that you can even enjoy as a main dish (think healthy).

Main Course

When we checked we discovered that Lenôtre has some hidden items that are off the main menu, such as the Japanese Kobe beef**, this steak is so tender you can literally cut it with a butter knife, it is so soft and smooth that it could melt over your fork before reaching your mouth. so once you’re at Lenôtre and want to try something special and unique, ask for the Kobe beef, and feel like an emperor.

Desserts

Now when we reached this part, we thought that making a choice would be extremely hard, since we all know Lenôtre’s famous chocolates and pastries, how can you make a selection to end this amazing meal. So to think out of the box, I recommend that you would close your eyes, take two deep breaths, then drop your finger anywhere on the dessert section of the menu… Trust me you will love that!

Lenôtre restaurant & café is located on Prince Mohammed bin Abdullaziz St. (Tahlia St.) at the Teatro mall, you can dine in the restaurant or even enjoy a cup of coffee sided by a piece of splendid French pastry.

* “The Art de Vivre” means art of the Good Life.

** Kobe Beef: Is a Japanese beef from the black Tajima-ushi breed of Wagyu cattle, raised according to strict Hyōgo Prefecture tradition. Kobe beef is renowned for its flavor, tenderness, and fatty well-marbled texture. The cattle are massaged, brushed, and fed on grain fodder.