A star meal in your own kitchen

Part two of this delicious culinary diptych: the resilience, creativity and flexibility with which these Dutch Michelin chefs run their shop is admirable. While some people's glass is always half empty, these glasses are half full. MASTERS lists restaurants where, despite the lockdown, you can still enjoy a delicious star meal at your own kitchen table during the run-up to New Year's Eve. Bon appetit!Text: Mical Joseph
Image: Rahi Rezvani, Goed Folk at MASTERS EXPO 2021 and Hotel Okura Amsterdam

Daalder

Chef Dennis Huwaë and his team ensure that eating at home becomes a culinary feast for you. At home with Daalder is an evening restaurant at your own kitchen table. A five-course star menu as you are used to from them. No simpler menu or delivery portions, but just the experience that almost makes you feel like you are in the restaurant. Thuis bij Daalder also includes a wine pairing, cheese board, friandises and cooking utensils. Just like real, huh? Inspired?

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There in Amstelveen…

There is a two-star restaurant Aan de Poel from chef Stefan van Sprang. The restaurant has had two Michelin stars since 2013. The star chef boxes give a different dimension to enjoying at home. In the new year there is a choice of a four-course and a five-course box. The culinary boxes include delicious lobster and Australian prawn with pea flan, pomegranate and dashi-chive vinaigrette. The five-course menu also offers the additional dish Foie Gras with yakitori sauce, currant and almond. There is also a choice of a wine range. However, is your mouth already watering? Van Sprang's special Christmas menu can be ordered until December 31, 2021.

You order here.Photo: 1st photo in MASTERS EXPO's star restaurant M*, from left to right: chefs Erik van Loo, Fred Mustert and Soenil Bahadoer. 2nd photo: Jonnie and Thérèse Boer for MASTERS Magazine

The three-star Valhalla of the Low Countries

As a patron-cuisinier of your own kitchen, you only have to add the finishing touches to these culinary boxes from Jonnie and Thérèse Boer from De Liberije. The four- and five-course menu cannot be missed in the kitchen if you want to surprise guests with spectacular culinary delights. Fancy, among other things, a gently cooked lamb neck, a monkfish and a 'dolmen' sloe bed? You know what to do:

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A culinary experience

So it's worth the wait stay tuned: The Experience Box 2022 by Restaurant Fred will be available soon. In addition to the delicious dishes contained in this box, you will also receive a unique online masterclass from chef himself: Fred Mustert. After this masterclass you will be an accomplished chef yourself. Patience pays off and when the time comes you can order The Experience Box 2022…

You can order from January 13, 2022 here.

Restaurant Parkheuvel

Two-star restaurant Parkheuvel in Rotterdam by Erik van Loo should of course not be missing from this culinary list. The restaurant is located right on the Maas and has had two Michelin stars since 2009. Quality, emotion and feeling are a few words that describe Van Loo's kitchen. The delicious boxes offer a choice between a four-course and five-course menu including lobster filled with pata negra, beef tea and deer stew. Prefer vegetarian? Then go for the vegetarian four-course menu, including lentil ravioli with mushroom cream sauce.

Order your do here.Photo: The Exquisite NYE Experience – Hotel Okura Amsterdam

Ciel Bleu, Serre and Hotel Okura

Ring in the new year in a gastronomic way with the tasty snacks put together by the chefs of Ciel Bleu, Onno Kokmeijer and Arjan Speelman, Serre en Hotel Okura Amsterdam. Enjoy the culinary selection at home such as a goose liver bonbon, Albacore tuna, duck and prawn. This festive selection is served together with their Sugoi cocktail created by the bartenders of the Twenty Third bar. The Exquisite New Years Eve Experience box can be picked up on New Year's Eve, December 31, after ordering. MASTERS thinks it's good to have a good time at home.

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Yamazato

Wonderful 2022. The chef of Restaurant Yamazato, Masanori Tomikawa, will serve a unique, traditional and colorful Japanese menu for your home on December 31. Each chosen dish symbolizes the new year and represents good health, fertility, good harvest, happiness and longevity. This menu is prepared by the chef with great care and an eye for detail. Due to the long traditional preparation time, only a few Yamazato Osechi Menus are available. So it's unique….

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