LEGO 10362 French Café is the first Icons Restaurants of the World series

January 26, 2025
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LEGO has officially unveiled 10362 French Café, a brand new not quite micro-scale, but not quite minifigure-scale model, celebrating houses of cuisine across the globe.

The 1,101-piece LEGO 10362 French Café falls under the LEGO Icons theme, and is part of a new “Restaurants of the World” collection, and will retail for a relatively manageable US$79.99 / AU$129.99 with a release date of 1 March 2025 where it’ll be available from LEGO.com or your local LEGO store.

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Update: Check out my review of 10362 French Cafe!

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The set depicts the front facade of a gorgeous little café, appropriately-named Café Fleur as it’s tastefully decorated with bunches of hanging pink flowers. As you can see, the set is kind of minifigure-scale based on the doors, and accessories used, but the size of the chairs and tables don’t quite correspond to minifigure-height, so I’d say this is a completely new scale LEGO are working with here.

The set measures 30cm (11.5 in.) wide, and 16cm (6 in.) tall which is quite a manageable size for a display model, and with a minimalist black base, it makes for a tasteful bookshelf display.

And no, unfortunately, there is no interior and the back is a jarring void, compared to the gorgeous exteriors out the front. There are some connection points at the back – perhaps a hint of future possible connections to other buildings?

Here’s a 360 view of the French Cafe.

There’s a minimal interior here as it’s not a complete building, but the double doors do open up to reveal some hidden, cozy details. The front is full of great-looking touches from the classically-Parisian brick work to the ornate streetlight, gold-trimmed windows, chalkboard shop sign and the soft blue-and-white tables adorned with newspapers, coffees and pastries (yes, there is a croissant here).

Check out more photos supplied by LEGO.

On the whole, it’s always exciting to see LEGO launching new collections and formats, and I’d love to see where else in the world this series takes us. I for one, would love a Kebab Shop, New York-style Pizzeria (or Billund!), and especially a traditional wooden Japanese Sushi Shop.

10362 French Café will be released on 1 March 2025 and will be available from LEGO.com or your local LEGO Store.

What do you think of 10362 French Café? What other regional cuisines or eateries would you like to see in a Restaurants of the World series?

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