Dinner isn’t quite what it seems at Le Petit Chef, an immersive restaurant opening near the Dallas North Tollway on Nov. 15, 2025.
This “gastronomic adventure,” as it’s 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.
“If one course is a salad with burrata, your table comes alive as a garden,” said Amanda Escobedo, senior marketing director for Westin Galleria Dallas.
(After the tiny chef demonstrates each course, servers bring actual food.)
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A blue and white tablecloth? Not quite: Le Petit Chef projects colors and patterns onto tables, which gives each course a distinct look.
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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’s patio. He and co-founder Filip Sterckx realized this culinary spectacle could translate to restaurants all over the world.
The effort was “a creative response to the question of how to bring life and imagination into empty restaurants and dining spaces,” explained a Le Petit Chef spokesperson. It turns “an ordinary meal into a captivating story told through light, art and food.”
The German-based entertainment company that runs Le Petit Chef today now has 111 locations in 44 countries. There’s one other Le Petit Chef in Texas, in Houston. Westin General Manager Greg White worked to bring it to Far North Dallas.
Each Le Petit Chef experience in Dallas is expected to last one and a half to two hours.
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Reps from the Westin look at Le Petit Chef as “an experience,” Escobedo said. Galleria Dallas already has a family-friendly ice-skating rink. The Galleria will also get Netflix House, which is expected to open Dec. 11, 2025.
Just 40 people fit inside a seating at Le Petit Chef in Dallas. Like a movie, meals start at a set time.
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.
The company uses a play-on-words about fine dining: This is “fun dining,” Escobedo said, “with the world’s smallest chef.”
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. Book online.