{"id":332227,"date":"2025-10-25T19:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/332227\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:52:35","slug":"le-petit-chef-a-dinner-adventure-started-by-artists-opens-soon-in-dallas-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/332227\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Petit Chef, a dinner \u2018adventure\u2019 started by artists, opens soon in Dallas hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dinner isn\u2019t quite what it seems at Le Petit Chef, an immersive restaurant opening near the Dallas North Tollway on Nov. 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">This \u201cgastronomic adventure,\u201d as it\u2019s described by a spokeswoman, is centered around colorful art projected onto dining tables inside the Westin Galleria Dallas. A tiny character, Le Petit Chef, is your cruise director for the evening. He appears on each table, explaining the menu to adults and kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cIf one course is a salad with burrata, your table comes alive as a garden,\u201d said Amanda Escobedo, senior marketing director for Westin Galleria Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">(After the tiny chef demonstrates each course, servers bring actual food.)<\/p>\n<p>Restaurant News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the scoop on the latest openings, closings, and where and what to eat and drink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4096 \/ 2731\"   class=\"dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain\" width=\"4096\" height=\"2731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LHZEGD77ZRCKRLA6RXMBACJAPA.jpg\" alt=\"A blue and white tablecloth? Not quite: Le Petit Chef projects colors and patterns onto...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A blue and white tablecloth? Not quite: Le Petit Chef projects colors and patterns onto tables, which gives each course a distinct look.<\/p>\n<p>Le Petit Chef<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Le Petit Chef started in 2015 as an art installation by a pair of Belgian artists who collectively go by the name Skullmapping. The first dinner theater experience happened on co-founder Antoon Verbeeck\u2019s patio. He and co-founder Filip Sterckx realized this culinary spectacle could translate to restaurants all over the world. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The effort was \u201ca creative response to the question of how to bring life and imagination into empty restaurants and dining spaces,\u201d explained a Le Petit Chef spokesperson. It turns \u201can ordinary meal into a captivating story told through light, art and food.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The German-based entertainment company that runs Le Petit Chef today now has 111 locations in 44 countries. There\u2019s one other Le Petit Chef in Texas, in Houston. Westin General Manager Greg White worked to bring it to Far North Dallas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4075 \/ 2717\"   class=\"dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain\" width=\"4075\" height=\"2717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HD42RY6E6VHIBPHQSAMKQFCNIQ.jpg\" alt=\"Each Le Petit Chef experience in Dallas is expected to last one and a half to two hours.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Each Le Petit Chef experience in Dallas is expected to last one and a half to two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Le Petit Chef<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Reps from the Westin look at Le Petit Chef as \u201can experience,\u201d Escobedo said. Galleria Dallas already has a family-friendly ice-skating rink. The Galleria will also get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/retail\/2025\/08\/25\/netflix-house-sets-premiere-date-for-dallas\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/retail\/2025\/08\/25\/netflix-house-sets-premiere-date-for-dallas\/\">Netflix House<\/a>, which is expected to open Dec. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Just 40 people fit inside a seating at Le Petit Chef in Dallas. Like a movie, meals start at a set time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Five courses cost $79 for kids ages 4 to 12 and $189 for adults (not including tax or tip). A vegetarian option costs $159 per person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The company uses a play on words about fine dining: This is \u201cfun dining,\u201d Escobedo said, \u201cwith the world\u2019s smallest chef.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Le Petit Chef is expected to open Nov. 15, 2025 at 13340 Dallas Parkway (inside the Westin Galleria Dallas, second floor), Dallas. Tickets cost $79 to $189. <a href=\"https:\/\/lepetitchef.com\/dallas\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/lepetitchef.com\/dallas\/\">Book online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dinner isn\u2019t quite what it seems at Le Petit Chef, an immersive restaurant opening near the Dallas North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":332228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[7291,5229,1596,246,24346,16226,9733,9063,988,6270,33852,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-332227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-addison","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-family","12":"tag-far-north-dallas","13":"tag-malls","14":"tag-restaurant-news","15":"tag-restaurant-openings","16":"tag-restaurants","17":"tag-retail","18":"tag-take-the-kids","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115436555483056433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}