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: Black Cafe in Dhahran

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Updated 23 January 2026
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Where We Are Going Today: Black Cafe in Dhahran

  • There were many pastries available but my latte was sweet enough so I did not indulge further on that visit

There is a new cafe in town at Khobar City Walk, near many of the popular eateries. Black Cafe is situated at the corner of the street so you might risk missing it altogether — that side of the building seemed to have been vacant for some time. But not anymore.

Despite its name, the interior is light-colored, aside from a few details such as the black straw and little tables inside.

Outside, there are plenty of seats and tables available so one can enjoy the cooler weather while it is still here.

I had the cafe to myself mostly, aside from a few customers who trickled in over the two hours I stayed there. It was a great spot to quietly read a book or sip a drink without the noise of the outside coming in.

I ordered an iced Spanish latte for SR19 ($5) and really liked it. There were many pastries available but my latte was sweet enough so I did not indulge further on that visit.

They gave out free bottles of water with every order, a nice gesture to remind us to keep hydrated as we caffeinated.

Open from 6:00 a.m. until 2:00 a.m, they definitely should be getting a larger crowd. I think since that spot was vacant for so many years that perhaps not many have come across it. But it is worth a try.

They are opening two more branches — all in the Eastern Province — later this year.

Follow them @blackcafe.ksa on Instagram.