Central Park Voorburg launches CP's Experience after renovation

Central Park Voorburg is changing how you spend an evening there. The Michelin-starred restaurant on the Oosteinde has introduced CP's Experience: an evening-long menu that is not served at a single table but spread across the bar, the lounge and other rooms of the eighteenth-century country house. De RestaurantKrant and WijBusinessNieuws reported the launch on 5 November.

The trigger is a renovation of roughly a year and a half. The bar, the lounge and the private dining room Willem I have been completely redone, with interior designer Jeroen Smeele as a partner, De RestaurantKrant writes. The building is the listed national monument Vreugd en Rust, set in its own park, with fourteen hotel rooms and suites above the restaurant.

What CP's Experience at Central Park Voorburg involves

You don't just taste what our chefs do, you get to know the whole house.

The new centre of the house is the bar, with marble, warm lighting and the original ceiling ornaments. There, chefs Hette Hettema and Tim Bood make amuses, small dishes and friandises right in front of you, each served with a matching glass. What lands on your plate changes with the season and with whatever the kitchen dreams up. The lounge is meant for an aperitif, a special wine by the glass or the conversation after dinner.

You book CP's Experience with a start time between 7pm and 9pm, HorecaTrends reports. The evening can be extended with extra culinary moments or adjusted to your wishes. Willem I remains available for private dinners, groups and business events, with a personal wine experience drawn from the house collection if you want one.

“You don't just taste what our chefs do, you get to know the whole house,” Joey de Kruijf, SVH master host at Central Park, told ChefsFriends. The aim, he says, is for guests to leave with the memory of an unforgettable evening rather than just a good dinner.

A star, a wine cellar and an old address

Central Park Voorburg has held a Michelin star since 2023 and scores 15.5 points in Gault&Millau. Its wine list runs to more than 2,750 references and was named Wine List of the Year by Gault&Millau. The house has been a member of Relais & Châteaux since July 2022.

The house has a long culinary history: Henk Savelberg was already cooking here in the 1990s, before the building carried on under the Central Park name. That makes Voorburg one of the starred addresses outside the big cities; our map of Dutch starred restaurants beyond Amsterdam shows how wide that field has become.

The restaurant has not put a price on CP's Experience in its announcements. Anyone wanting to know what an evening through the whole house costs will have to call first.