Where We Are Going Today: Easy Bakery

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Easy Bakery offers special boxes in several sizes of its most popular pastries for special occasions. (Instagram: @easybakery.sa)
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All baked goodies are made on the premises, so customers can watch as they are made and served fresh. (Instagram: @easybakery.sa)
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Updated 15 October 2023
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Where We Are Going Today: Easy Bakery

Locally owned and operated, Easy Bakery in Riyadh is known for its fresh pastries and sourdough bread.

Its branches are located on Anas Ibn Malik Street and in Turki Square, which has a larger sitting area.

The bakery offers a variety of freshly baked pastries, cakes, and bread, ranging in price from SR11 ($2.93) for a plain croissant to SR39 for a mixed seed sourdough loaf.

Other available bread loaves to go include German bread, brioche, and baguette.

Easy Bakery recently included a sourdough sandwich menu using its famous sourdough made with natural yeast, which is fermented for more than 18 hours and baked fresh every morning.

Sourdough sandwiches come with four different sets of ingredients: beetroot hummus, avocado, Greek cheese, balsamic cream, and chives; peanut butter spread, organic granola, banana, blueberries, and honey; scrambled eggs, mashed avocado, parmesan cheese, and chives; and labneh, mint, thyme, pomegranate molasses, and fresh pomegranate seeds.

For special occasions, including Ramadan, Eid, and Saudi National Day, Easy Bakery offers boxes in several sizes featuring its most popular pastries. 

The range of cakes and pastries available is unique in texture, flavor, and fillings, such as their white cheese and mint croissant, sundried tomatoes and pesto Danish, cheese tahini Danish, tiramisu wheel, black sesame cake, and zucchini carrot cake.

Other favorites include almond raspberry tart, Nutella twist, babka cardamom, pecan and caramel Danish, lemon cake, and apple muffin.

All baked goods are made on the premises, and customers can watch the process during their visit.

The drink menu includes a coffee of the day, an iced Spanish latte, a cortado, an espresso, and an English breakfast tea. They also served freshly squeezed lemon juice.

Open from 7 a.m. to midnight daily, the bakery tends to be at its busiest on the weekend.

For more information, visit @easybakery.sa on Instagram.


Where We Are Going Today: Orenda Coffee Hub in Dhahran

Updated 14 January 2026
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Where We Are Going Today: Orenda Coffee Hub in Dhahran

  • The Hasawi cookie was the highlight of my visit, and definitely something I would order again

In search of a hot beverage that you can hold like a hug for your hand as the winter weather cools? Try Orenda in Dhahran.

According to Dictionary.com, Orenda is defined as “an invisible magic power believed by the Iroquois people of North America to pervade all natural objects as a spiritual energy.”

While geographically far away from the land in which the word originated, the cafe has plenty of inspiration from local and global lands.

Their Hasawi cookies—caked with dates and a tiny bit of nuts and cardamom tucked within to give it texture and an elevated taste of neighboring Al-Ahsa—goes for SR 12. This was the highlight of my visit and I would definitely order again.

I tried it with a satisfying SR 16 cappuccino in a ceramic mug. Soft jazz played on the day of our visit. Plenty of natural light bathed the space with the giant windows and many people were typing on their laptops or scrolling on their phones in silence.

 It has a perfectly quiet, perhaps even an orenda atmosphere.

While the weather is still pleasant, you can find many options for outdoor seating. There’s also an upstairs section, up a fun, winding green spiral staircase. Though no elevator was in sight, the bottom floor interior seems wide enough for a wheelchair.

If you do find yourself wandering up the second floor, you’ll find even more seating with an even cozier feel with decor reminiscent of a warm home.

Restrooms are situated on the next and final floor, up even more steps.

A prayer area can be found on the third floor too, along with a massive glass door leading into an outdoor space with tables and chairs aplenty.

Opened eight months ago, it remains the first and only branch in the Kingdom.

Because it seemed very popular, I ordered an iced Orenda matcha for the road, at SR 24. It was decent.

It is open from 6 a.m. until midnight daily, aside from Thursdays and Fridays when it closes at 1 a.m.

Follow them on @orendacoffee.sa.