In a city brimming with wonderful choices, find out where people are eating out in Riyadh this season...
The restaurant scene in Riyadh has exploded in recent years, with a range of options for all tastes and budgets. From Michelin-starred dining to casual street food, the city has something to suit everyone.
Traditional Arabic restaurants are of course popular, but international cuisine is also well represented, with restaurants offering dishes from all over the world - many of them in the city's upscale neighborhoods, such as the DQ and the Laysen Valley.
Here the MCC team has put together a selection of dining spots.
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Roma Boulevard
Fresh pasta, pizza and other Italian dishes are served in this warm-hearted family restaurant, one of three in Riyadh, from a brand that has been in the city for 30 years.
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Call: +966 11 464 3798
Address: Prince Turki Bin Abul Aziz Road The Boulevard Riyadh, First Floor, Office No 4, 13513
NAC
Fresh from London’s Mayfair, this French bistro with whitewashed bricks and banquette seating, also has a wood-paneled cocktail lounge. Serving from breakfast onwards.
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Address: Laysen Valley, King Khalid Rd, Umm Al Hamam Al Gharbi, Riyadh 12329
Café de L’esplanade - Albujairi
This elegant fine-dining restaurant is the only international offshoot outside the famous original in Paris, serving upscale brasserie-style food.
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Call: +966 56 8868 900
Address: Bujaiiri Terrace, Diriyah
Le Maschou
This offshoot of its famous precursor in Cannes offers a gourmet dining experience with open fires, hearth-roasted meat, a wide range of mocktails and a smart, almost medieval decor surrounded by stone walls.
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Call: +966 9200 13005
Address: Tayma St, Al Safarat, Riyadh 12513
Signor Sassi
Smart, sophisticated Italian restaurant set up in a villa-like building, with a plant-filled interior terrace lit by a large skylight, giving the impression of a Mediterranean garden.
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Call: +966 9200 01050
Address: 2605 Prince Abdulaziz Ibn Musaid Ibn Jalawi St, As Sulimaniyah, Riyadh 12234
Crazy Pizza DQ
Set in the heart of the Diplomatic Quarter, this is one of two branches of the international pizza chain in Riyadh - the other is in Amr Al-Damari Street. The signature thin-crust, hand-tossed dough is served in a Mediterranean style-setting, with resident DJs on hand. There’s a good list of mocktails and juices too.
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Call: +966 9200 07275
Address: Prince Muhammad Ibn Abd Al Aziz, As Sulimaniyah, Riyadh 12243
Serafina
This contemporary-style, warmly welcoming, branch of an Italian restaurant chain with 35 branches worldwide, also offers a deli and an event service.
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Call: +966 55 538 2251
Address: The Esplanade, King Saud University, Riyadh 12371
LPM
The original La Petite Maison opened in 1988 on the French Riviera, with further branches now around the world. The chic destination offers French-Mediterranean dishes in a smart venue with an outside terrace.
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Call: +966 9200 11794
Address: Al Motasem Street, Al Olaya, Riyadh 12212
Somewhere - Albujairi
This modern, casual-dining restaurant on the Riyadh Front business and shopping complex in Diriyah, has beautiful outdoor seating where modern dishes are fused with authentic Mediterranean and Lebanese cuisine.
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Address: PHPF+QP8, Al Bujairi, Ad Diriyah 13711
Sumosan
Sumosan is an award-winning, sleek and smart Japanese restaurant with locations worldwide, and a theater kitchen where guests can watch the chefs at work.
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Call: +966 9200 21225
Address: Laysen Valley, Umm Al Hamam Al Gharbi, Building 25, Riyadh 12329
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