Restaurant, cafe and food-court fit-out across Riyadh — commercial kitchen, extract, drainage and cold rooms behind the wall, and a dining room that earns its rent in front of it.
Front of house is what the guest sees, but on an F&B fit-out the kitchen is what governs the programme. Extract canopy sizing and the makeup air that balances it, grease interceptor position and fall, cold room slab levels, gas supply and detection, and the drainage the municipality will actually sign off — these get resolved first or they get resolved expensively.
Dar Anan builds both halves. Our mechanical and electrical teams are in-house, so the canopy, the makeup air and the dining-room comfort are designed as one system rather than three subcontracts arguing over a ceiling void. That is also what keeps a Baladiya inspection from becoming a three-week delay.
Tailored fit-out solutions for diverse business needs.
Durable, high-traffic front-of-house environments designed for rapid service alongside highly efficient back-of-house operations.
Inviting, brand-specific environments combining high-end espresso bars with comfortable lounging and rapid-service counters.
Atmospheric interiors featuring premium imported materials, acoustic treatments, custom lighting scenarios, and bespoke seating.
Back of house and front of house, delivered under one contract.
Kitchen structure, hygienic wall and floor systems, stainless fabrication and equipment installation, set out to the operator's flow from delivery to pass.
Canopy sizing, ductwork routing and fan selection with matched fresh-air makeup, so the kitchen holds its negative pressure without pulling conditioned air off the dining room.
Kitchen drainage falls, floor gullies and a correctly sized and positioned grease interceptor — a routine municipal inspection item and a common cause of rework.
Walk-in chiller and freezer construction, floor build-up and threshold detailing, condenser siting and drainage, with the acoustic separation to keep plant out of the dining room.
Gas reticulation to the cooking line with isolation, detection and interlocked shutdown, installed and certified to the requirements the civil defence review will look for.
Bar and servery joinery, banquette and feature finishes, and ceiling and wall absorption tuned so a full dining room is lively rather than unbearable.
Restaurants are heavily regulated and MEP-intensive. We transform empty shells into immersive dining experiences while flawlessly executing complex kitchen mechanics.
Seamless marrying of front-of-house aesthetics with robust, stainless-steel commercial kitchen realities.
Advanced HVAC zoning ensuring dining rooms remain pristine while heavy kitchen extraction occurs invisibly.
Navigating strict local Riyadh municipality and civil defense health codes to secure faster operating permits.
Indicative stages for a restaurant or cafe in Riyadh. Municipality and civil defence inspections sit on the critical path and are programmed, not assumed.
Survey of the unit against the operator's kitchen brief and menu, confirming extract routing, drainage falls and gas and power availability before the interior design is frozen.
Landlord and municipality submissions run alongside procurement of kitchen equipment, cold rooms and the extract system — the long-lead items on almost every F&B job.
Slab work for drainage and interceptor, then extract ductwork, gas, water and electrical first fix, inspected while accessible.
Hygienic finishes and stainless installation back of house, in parallel with ceilings, floors, bar and banquette joinery front of house.
Extract and makeup air balanced, gas and fire systems certified, municipality and civil defence inspections attended, then snagging and handover for the operator's trial service.
We fit out restaurants, cafes and food-court units across Riyadh's principal dining destinations, working to each landlord's trading-hours and delivery restrictions.
F&B venues delivered by Dar Anan, front of house and back of house.
Premium retail fit-out for Ganache patisserie, featuring curved marble counters, warm timber joinery, and bespoke display cabinetry.
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Full retail fit-out for Musa & Palm café in the Diplomatic Quarter, Riyadh — featuring custom Moroccan gypsum ceilings, marble flooring, fresco-painted walls, lighting glass facades, and complete MEP installation.
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Café retail fit-out featuring a suspended steel-tube canopy, wrought iron doors, custom marble flooring, Moroccan gypsum ceilings, fresco-painted walls, display fridges, water filtration systems, and custom sculptural elements.
View Project →A restaurant is the most heavily regulated interior most operators will ever build, and in Saudi Arabia the inspections are sequential and unforgiving. These are the local conditions that decide whether you open on time.
Amanat Ar-Riyadh assesses the kitchen layout, the hygienic wall and floor systems, the drainage arrangement and the grease interceptor. Approval is a condition of the food establishment licence. A design that looks resolved front of house and unresolved behind the pass will not clear the inspection, and the rework is structural.
The interceptor has to be correctly sized for the covers and the menu, correctly positioned for access and emptying, and served by drainage with adequate fall. Retrofitting it after the slab is finished is one of the most expensive corrections in F&B fit-out, and it is entirely avoidable at survey stage.
Gas reticulation to the cooking line, detection, interlocked shutdown and the wet-chemical suppression system over the canopy are all subject to Saudi Civil Defence review and certification. This is a separate approval from the municipal one and it has its own inspection.
Units originally provisioned as retail frequently lack the drainage falls, the extract riser capacity and the electrical and gas supply an operating kitchen needs. Creating those is a far larger scope than connecting to them. We check all three before anything else, because they largely determine the number.
In Riyadh's climate the makeup air is not just a balance question — it is tempered air, and the cost of conditioning it is real. Sizing the canopy without sizing the matched makeup air is how a dining room ends up uncomfortable, doors stick, and cooking odour migrates front of house.
The six-hour working day for Muslim workers applies during Ramadan, and operators typically want to be trading for iftar. That combination compresses an already tight window, which is why the equipment order goes in before the interior design is signed off rather than after.
Dar Anan delivers the kitchen and the dining room under one contract, with mechanical and electrical in-house. On an F&B fit-out that is not a convenience — it is what stops the extract, the drainage and the ceiling from being three separate arguments.
What operators and franchisees ask us before an F&B fit-out in Riyadh.
Yes — and on most F&B projects the kitchen is the part that governs the programme. We deliver the kitchen structure and hygienic finishes, stainless fabrication and equipment installation, the extract canopy and its matched makeup air, gas reticulation with detection and interlocked shutdown, drainage and grease interceptor, and cold rooms. Splitting the kitchen and the front of house between two contractors is where most F&B fit-outs lose time, because the ceiling void is where they collide.
Broadly: the landlord or mall tenant coordination approval for the design, municipality (Baladiya) review covering the kitchen layout, hygienic finishes, drainage and grease interception, and civil defence review of the fire, gas detection and suppression provisions. Each has its own submission and inspection point, and each sits on the critical path. We programme these as milestones from week one and attend the inspections, because a failed inspection late in the job is far more expensive than the design work that would have avoided it.
Construction is usually not the constraint — kitchen equipment lead times, extract system procurement and the inspection cycle are. The sequence that works is: confirm the kitchen layout and extract routing against the unit before freezing the interior design, submit for approvals and order equipment in parallel, then slab and drainage work, first fix, kitchen build and front of house together, then commissioning and inspections. Trying to design the dining room before the kitchen services are resolved is the most common cause of rework.
The kitchen specification and the extract and makeup air system usually dominate, followed by whether the unit has adequate drainage falls, gas supply and electrical capacity for the equipment schedule. A unit designed as retail and converted to F&B costs substantially more than a unit already provisioned for it, because the drainage and the extract riser have to be created rather than connected. We survey those three things first, and they largely determine the number.
Yes. Food court units add constraints rather than removing them: a shared extract riser with allocated capacity you cannot exceed, a fixed shopfront line, a landlord-mandated hoarding standard, and noisy works confined to hours outside trading. The extract allocation is the item to verify before signing, because a menu that needs more canopy capacity than the riser allows is a problem no amount of site work will solve.
An extract canopy removes a large volume of air, and that air has to be replaced. If it is not replaced deliberately with tempered makeup air, the kitchen pulls it from the dining room — which makes the dining room uncomfortable, unbalances the air conditioning, causes doors to slam or stick, and lets cooking odour migrate front of house. Sizing extract and makeup air as one system is straightforward at design stage and expensive to correct after the ceiling is closed.
Detailed guides on F&B fit-out cost, programme, MEP requirements and the licensing timeline in Saudi Arabia.
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Read the guide →Send us the unit and your kitchen brief and we will tell you what the extract, drainage and programme actually require.
