The Lime Tree Cafe & Kitchen is a Dubai-based chain of cafés and bakeries and a producer of packaged food products founded in 2001 by New Zealand sisters Jacqueline and Corinne Bowker. Its first café opened in a converted villa in Jumeirah at a time when Dubai had relatively few independent cafés focused on natural ingredients and freshly prepared food. The company gradually expanded its operations to include multiple locations, an in-house bakery, catering, wholesale distribution, and the production of gift hampers. Its retail range includes jams, marmalades, chutneys, vegetable preserves, cookies, biscuits, crackers, and crisp flatbreads. These products are prepared in small batches in the company’s own kitchen. The producer states that they contain no preservatives or artificial colors and that preference is given to natural, seasonal, and locally sourced ingredients whenever available. The range combines European and New Zealand baking influences with Middle Eastern ingredients such as dates, pistachios, sesame, sumac, and za’atar. Jams, preserves, and chutneys are cooked in small batches, while crackers and cookies are handmade and baked in the company’s own production facilities. Today, The Lime Tree Cafe & Kitchen is an established local brand that combines hospitality with its own artisanal product range.