French

La Brasserie (M5) Tel: 663 3333

Le Meridien, Madinah Road

This French accented restaurant offers daily sumptuous breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets with local, Oriental and International cuisine, as well as a varied a la carte menu.

 

La Brasserie (R6) Tel: 642 8555

Red Sea Palace, Balad

This chameleon of a restaurant, home to Friday brunch, seafood nights and barbecue nights is also a first class French restaurant with a menu that includes staples of French regional cuisine as well as all the finesse of nouvelle cuisine.

 

La Cuisine (O7) Tel: 663 0363

Palestine Street, opposite the Jamjoom Centre

Hi-tech design is the theme of this busy restaurant with an extensive and expensive menu.  Order the souffle for dessert first and then hope you will have room for it as the enormously generous first and second courses arrive.  Budget SR170 per head although the set menu 'Café de Paris' for SR90 consists of a generous green salad, steak café de Paris and dessert of your choice.

 

Cote Jardin (O6) Tel: 660 2000

Al Hamra Sofitel, Palestine Street

Artfully decorated with a number of wooden trellis and climbing plants, the menu is compact but reliable.

 

Try also Alcazar as mentioned above, above Harry Ramsden's on the Corniche (P7);  Le Bourgeouis in the Al Bustan Hotel on Palestine Street at the junction with Madinah Road (O5) Tel: 696 4444.