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Indulge with Mascha Lammes
Worldly dishes, sublime wine lists and home-grown ingredients: MASTERS highlights a number of places where your taste buds will certainly be stimulated...
“In our family we have a tradition that the person having a birthday can decide which restaurant they go to on that festive day. This has varied quite a bit in quality in recent years. For example, on a very, very black day, namely the birthday of the youngest, who was about six years old that day, we had dinner at the Malle Jan food bar on the Gageldijk in Utrecht. We will not waste any valuable words on that here. Ten years have now passed and our son has refined his taste considerably. On his birthday this year we sat in the Concours restaurant and enjoyed a parade of delicious dishes. One of those snacks was an amazing green pea fritter with a massaman curry and a crispy chateau. The weeks after the visit to Concours we spent trying to reproduce this meal, without any success I can now tell you. Which just goes to show that no matter how skilled you are in the kitchen, it is still a great fact that there are restaurants that prepare delicacies that you could not produce yourself with the best will in the world.” – Mascha Lammes, cookbook author
Inside Valley: Green
GREEN is metropolitan, relaxed and cosmopolitan with a breathtaking view of the beautiful capital. The restaurant is located on the Zuidas in the Valley building on the 26th floor and can be reached by private elevator. The menu is vegetarian with home-grown ingredients. Fish and meat are available in the form of a side dish. Served in an extremely pure style. The 'Green Table' is a parade of vegetarian dishes, including roasted eggplant and roasted beetroot. You don't want to miss this one. With this style, Peter Lute and his team build a bridge to what he sees as the obvious future of gastronomy. Peter and Marieke now live in the Noordoostpolder. Many of the ingredients come from there and over the next two years they will be building a self-sufficient place with another restaurant. That's going to be The Final. This creates a unique combination of several hectares at sea level in Kraggenburg and the highest restaurant and sky bar in Amsterdam. Green is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 12 noon to 18 pm and on Friday and Saturday evenings for dinner.
Special (wine) menu
A ship's camel is a system of floats that is connected to a ship to temporarily reduce its draft. It is an invention of Meeuwis Meindertsz Bakker, who tested its construction in 1690, when the warship Princes Maria was taken over the shoals of Pampus in the Zuiderzee with a pair of camels. Ship's camel: that's what the men behind successful restaurant Lille called their second business, located on the Marineterrein in Amsterdam East. A reference to the glorious maritime history of this place. Scheepskameel presents a regularly changing menu in which classic European preparations with great attention to the main ingredient form the guiding principle. Think of raw fish, barbecued vegetables, roasts with classic sauces and artisanal cheeses. The dishes are tasty and light-hearted. Nothing goes better with this menu than German wines. The extensive wine list consists exclusively of German wines, which is unique in Amsterdam. Here you can dine in a relaxed atmosphere, for all occasions and for everyone: vegans and vegetarians can also enjoy a full menu here.
Worldly
Restaurant VanOost opened its doors at the end of 2022 in the new luxury hotel in Amsterdam, Pillows Maurits at the Park. The monumental building, which previously housed a UvA building, has been transformed into a fantastic hotel in collaboration with architect Uri Galad and Studio Linse. You will be guided through the main entrance to the restaurant, where you will first be invited for an aperitif in the restaurant bar. Sommelier Saskia Smeenk (Yamazato, Vermeer, La Rive) selects a champagne that suits the season. The restaurant, on the site of a former cutting laboratory, is characterized by large windows, a fifteen-high ceiling and original wooden vaults. Chef Floris van Straalen (Vinkeles, Envy, Pure C, Felix) and his team will spoil you with a six-, eight- or ten-course menu with dishes inspired by worldly flavors. After the menu, an extensive cheese trolley awaits enthusiasts. An asset!
