Restaurant openings, chef profiles, culinary travel, and the Gulf's rapidly evolving dining culture.
Presented by Bait Al-Kaif Group
Chipotle Mexican Grill has officially arrived in Saudi Arabia, with Alshaya Group opening the brand’s first restaurant in the Kingdom at Sidra, next to Granada Mall in Riyadh.
There is a moment in many Saudi kitchens when the smell of cardamom and dried lime hits the air and something ancient stirs. The new generation of chefs working across Riyadh and Jeddah knows this moment well — they have trained in Copenhagen and Paris and Tokyo, yet it is always this smell, and the memory attached to it, that pulls them back to their own culinary roots.