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Restaurant Flore**, Amsterdam (Jul 2025)
I visited last in 2017, but the restaurant has changed direction to conscious plant-forward fine dining and recently undergone a full remodeling. Time to revisit the fine dining restaurant of Hotel De L’Europe. about the restaurant That last visit was for a business lunch, but back then it was still called Bord’eau**. Bas van Kranen…
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Restaurant Foer – Amsterdam (Oct 2023)
Back for dinner at Restaurant Foer and, again, a superb fine dining experience.
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Around the World – Restaurant Coque** – Madrid (Oct 2023)
A very good reason to return from hiatus…
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Choux x De Nieuwe Winkel Food Box (Feb 2021)
A collaboration vegan food box of Choux (Amsterdam) and De Nieuwe Winkel (Nijmegen).
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Choux at Home food box (Jan 2021)
We tried the ‘Choux voor Thuis’ food box a couple of weeks ago and were in for a treat!
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HFSLG – Snacks and Dinner Food Boxes (Jan 2021)
We kicked off 2021 well with snacks and dinner boxes from De Hoefslag a.k.a. HFSLG.
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Restaurant Fred** At Home Food Box (Dec 2020)
With both Christmas days already occupied with the Dutch tradition of “gourmetten”, we decided to treat ourselves to a fancier pre-Christmas food box from Rotterdam’s Restaurant Fred**.
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Daalder Food Box (Nov 2020)
The fourth and last instalment of our November fine dining food box month, Restaurant Daalder.
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De Jonge Dikkert @ Home Food Box (Nov 2020)
The third instalment of our November-fine-dining-food-box-month was a local Amstelveen one: De Jonge Dikkert @ Home.
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Triptyque Thuismenu Food Box (Nov 2020)
The second instalment of our November food box month was from Restaurant Triptyque.
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Olivijn* Thuis Food Box (Nov 2020)
With the restaurants closed yet again, we are trying out fine dining food-boxes the entire month of November.
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Restaurant De Loohoeve*, Schoonloo (Oct 2020)
We had a festive dinner at De Loohoeve* on holidays in Drenthe, in the North-Eastern part of the Netherlands,
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Restaurant Coulisse, Amsterdam (Sept 2020)
We celebrated Chantal’s birthday with a lunch at Coulisse.
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Restaurant Merlet*, Schoorl (Aug 2020)
Our first fancy lunch after the lockdown was at Merlet* and it was fabulous!
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RIJKS* x Manu (March 2020)
A memorable vegetarian lunch event at RIJKS* (and also the last time eating out in quite a while, I am afraid…)
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Restaurant Foer – Amsterdam (February 2020)
Dinner at Restaurant Foer provided a superb fine dining experience.
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Bistro Bord’o – Leiden (January 2020)
We started 2020 well, catching up with friends at Bistro Bord’o in Leiden.
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Restaurant Oshima – Amsterdam (December 2019)
I visited Oshima, the new restaurant of Akira Oshima, the former executive chef of Yamazato*, a couple of weeks ago.
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‘Cook like a Chef’ Food Box – Review
A food box that enables you to recreate dishes from some of the best Dutch chefs at home!
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Around the World – British Columbia Roadtrip (2019) – Burnaby
Our final day and a half in Canada: Driving from Victoria to Burnaby, near Vancouver International Airport, for our flight back home.
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Around the World – British Columbia Roadtrip (2019) – Victoria
The last part of our road trip through beautiful Vancouver Island: from Salt Spring Island, via a very scenic route, to Victoria.
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Around the World – British Columbia Roadtrip (2019) – Tofino
Next stop on Vancouver Island: 3 days to explore BC’s surfer’s paradise Tofino, and the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.
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Amber Garden Restaurant – Amstelveen (October 2019)
A new high-end Chinese restaurant in Amstelveen has officially opened late September. I checked it out for a quick dinner with my brother last month, and it is really, really good!
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Around the World – British Columbia Roadtrip (2019) – Courtenay
The next destination of our British Columbia road trip was Courtenay, one of 4 stops on Vancouver Island.
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Restaurant Olivijn* – Haarlem (October 2019)
3rd Friday fancy lunch in a row was at Restaurant Olivijn* in Haarlem.
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Restaurant ‘t Nonnetje** – Harderwijk (September 2019)
We have been trying out some fine-dining restaurants that were already quite some time on our “to-do” list.
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Restaurant De Burgemeester* – Linschoten (September 2019)
The very recent restyling of Restaurant De Burgemeester* was a reason enough to revisit them for Chantal’s birthday.
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