Like Chili’s, McDonalds and a lot of the restaurants on the Gulf Road, Corniche Club also lost the bid for their location earlier this year and now have to move out. Originally the rumors were that Alshaya won the location and were going to turn it into Equinox but that rumor didn’t turn out to be true.
On the other hand, the latest rumor I’ve been hearing is that Corniche Club will now be moving to Arabella instead. I’ve known for some time now that Arabella was repositioning itself and I had also heard rumors that it was turning into a hotel, so it would make a lot of sense if it turns out Corniche is taking it over. Sadly, that whole strip is already too congested with Palms and Radisson Blu right next door so I’m not really excited about this.
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I already seen Starbucks logo on one of old closed restaurants next to it.
That was Abdul Wahab and it is a different site. Alshaya won a bunch of tenders but not all of them (I think Chilis, Abdul Wahab, Lenotre + another one)
Arabella let all their tenants leave because they were planning on redeveloping the area into a hotel yes, landlord was pretty open about it. Turns out putting like 100 parking spaces into an area with 50 restaurants, maybe not the best idea
Just a rumor
Btw, what even happened to Arabella? What is still open there? Does any one like goes there?
Yes, to BurgerFi.
Might end up being Equinox, see below:
https://www.alshaya.com/en/media-centre/alshaya-news/item/34712-equinox-partners-with-alshaya-group-to-bring-portfolio-of-influential-lifestyle-brands-to-the-middle-east/