An Adventure For Your Taste Buds

Imagine that you are on the broken streets of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, a coastal city. It’s 100 degrees out and you are hungry.

You catch a smell of freshly baked bread. You look at the jumbled signs on the buildings and find a place called Latif Pastry.

You walk through a doorway, into a slightly cooled room, smells of spice waft around you. As you reach the counter you can feel the heat again, bewildered, you see the gas brick oven roaring in front of you.

The smell of melting cheese, olive oil, za’atar, and baking honey just sucks you right in. People are crowded around the counter trying to get their orders in, money seemingly being thrown around, a frenzy of voices, shouting orders and before you know it the baker is taking your order, in a hurry, moves onto the next person, then comes back to you.

Your mouth is already watering, you go ahead and order a cheese, labna, and za’atar bread. Within a minute it is being put in the oven and within the next minute it is being handed to you.

You go to bite into the piping hot bread, just too good to resist, and instantly the pillowy texture of the bread invites you to keep eating. The slight taste of saltiness from the cheese comes then the creamy baked labna, a tangy yogurt cheese. Then za’atar, a Middle Eastern pesto made from thyme rather than basil, not long after, hits your palate, and brings together your sense of deliciousness. 

This is the memory that persists in our minds, the inspiration of the breads made at Latif Breads. It is the re-creation of these smells and feelings that we yearn to share with others. It is Manaeesh, taken after a childhood favorite bakery Latif Pastry, which would fulfill the need to share those memories right here, right now. It was the realization that we can supply new or old memories alike, to your doorstep, without having to fly across the world just to get it from the source.

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Our Manaeesh recipe was perfected on Friday, September 13th, 2019.