An all-day room, in ten cities
Casper & Gambini’s is an all-day restaurant-café: the kind of room you can walk into at eight in the morning for a flat white and eggs, come back to at one for a working lunch, and still find comfortable at nine in the evening over a plate of pasta and a glass of wine. That single idea — one room, three very different moods, the same standard of cooking throughout — has kept the format recognisable from the first branch to the tenth city.
The kitchen runs an all-day menu rather than three separate ones. Breakfast keeps going long past the hour most places pack it away; salads and sandwiches are built to order rather than assembled in advance; the pasta, risotto and grill sections carry the evening. Bakery and pastry are made on site, which is why the counter looks different at four in the afternoon than it did at nine.
Coffee is treated as its own discipline. Beans are roasted for espresso rather than filter, the grind is adjusted through the day as humidity shifts, and staff are trained on the machine before they are trained on the till. The result is a cup that tastes the same in Beirut, Doha and Dubai — which for a group operating across ten cities is harder than it sounds.
Behind the room there is a company: a training programme that promotes from the floor rather than from outside, and a franchise structure that has taken the format across the region without turning it into a chain that feels like one. The pages below cover the menu, the places you can find us, the people who run them, and how to join or partner with us.
Every branch offers a nostalgic feeling with the changing seasons, and greets you with a warm welcoming aroma that takes you back to nature. Embark on an exquisite journey while gazing at our signature items and feel the strong sense of belonging to our ingenious aura… Make yourselves at home, where all is in good taste!
