A morning drink stop in Los Angeles turned out to be a chance encounter withKim KardashianWestandPete Davidsonfor one lucky tourist!
Dutch music journalist Paul Barewijk, who documented his run-in with the couple onsocial media, tells PEOPLE via Instagram that he ran into the pair at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Saturday during his vacation in L.A. from Amsterdam.
Barewijk explains that he first noticed theSaturday Night Livecomedian, 28, while he was having his morning tea and chatting on the phone with his mom at the hotel bar.
“All of the sudden I looked to my right and sawPete Davidson,” he recalls to PEOPLE. “I talked further with my mom and then I thought, ‘Who is he talking with?’ Because I know the latest dating rumors. And so, it wasKim Kardashian!”
Shortly before the encounter, the music journalist says he snapped a few selfies in front of the 41-year-old beauty mogul’sSKIMS pop-up storein Beverly Hills. He said he showed a “stunning” Kardashian West the photos to break the ice, calling their meeting a “coincidence.”
“I asked her for a photo. She said, ‘Okay, sure,’ and I asked Pete to take the photo. So he did. We took two photos,” says Barewijk, who then asked Davidson for a photo as well. “I told him that people in The Netherlands like him because ofSNL, so.. selfie? He took it!”
Paul Barewijk/Instagram
Barewijk later shared his excitement when he posted the shots on his Instagram account: “OMG MAKE ME CRAZY! SITTING RIGHT NEXT TOKIM KARDASHIANANDPETE DAVIDSONFOR BREAKFAST!”
“They looked happy, sat close to each other and walked away together,” Barewijk also tells PEOPLE of the duo. “It looked like a date to me,” he added, saying that the couple stuck around for a few minutes before leaving.
TheKing of Staten Islandactor appeared to have a love bite on his neck. The duo affectionately left the restaurant hand-in-hand, when Davidson’s blemish was photographed.
A source toldPEOPLEthat they also arrived at the restaurant holding hands and “were both in a great mood.”
“They sat very close to each other and Kim kept giggling,” the insider said. “He was very pleasant and ordered a lot of food for them. They shared several pasta dishes. He had his arm around Kim and they were very flirty. You could tell that Kim had the best time. They very much acted like a couple.”
The mom of four was first romantically linked to Davidson last month, when they were spottedholding hands on a rollercoasterat Knott’s Scary Farm in Buena Park, California. The outing came shortly after theyshared an onscreen kissfor a sketch when she hostedSaturday Night Liveon Oct. 9.
Kardashian West shares daughtersNorth, 8,Chicago, 3½, and sonsSaint West, 5½, andPsalm, 2½, with exKanye West, whom shemarriedin May 2014. Since shefiled for divorcefrom the rapper, 44, in February, the former couple hasfocused on co-parenting peacefully.
As for Davidson, PEOPLE confirmed in August that the comedian had split fromBridgertonstarPhoebe Dynevorafter about five months together. He wasbriefly engagedtoAriana Grandein 2018, and previously datedKaia Gerber,Kate BeckinsaleandCazzie David.
source: people.com
