netherlands
Stories tagged “netherlands”
Subway Blueprint becomes the EMEA standard from January 2027
Kiosks, breakfast, coffee and an evening menu from 6pm: the chain's new format is meant to help it nearly double in the region in five years. The release gives no starting number and no cost.
De Cuijt Michelin star arrives 18 months after opening
Koen van Weert and Yukyung Lee reopened a 1914 canal-side restaurant in Mierlo in April 2025. Michelin gave it a star on 5 October; the phone took 96 bookings in a day.
Michelin Guide Netherlands 2026: every new star, full list
Two restaurants enter straight at two stars, seven take a first star and De Librije stays alone at three. The Dutch total holds at 119, exactly where it stood a year ago.
Margo Reuten's Da Vinci loses its Michelin star after 27 years
Michelin phoned the chef of the Maasbracht restaurant on Sunday 4 October, a day before its Dutch ceremony in Maastricht. Da Vinci held two stars from 2009 to 2018.
Bib Gourmand Netherlands adds ten restaurants before the stars
Michelin names its ten new value picks a week before the Maastricht star ceremony: three in Amsterdam, five in Noord-Holland and none in Utrecht or Gelderland.
Michelin Guide Netherlands adds nine restaurants
Nine restaurants join the Michelin Guide Netherlands this month, from Amsterdam to Groningen, ahead of the October 5 stars ceremony in Maastricht.
Benjamin Den Bosch hires Bart van Hemert from starred Alma
Sommelier Chiel Seuren's wine restaurant on the Kerkstraat hands its kitchen to the chef de cuisine of Wouter van Laarhoven's Michelin-starred Alma in Oisterwijk.
Élan Amsterdam: the Roux team takes over the old Maris Piper
Roos Bierhoff, Allon Niesen and chef Sebastiano Guglielmucci open a 120-seat à la carte restaurant on the Frans Halsstraat in early November, with mains at €25 to €30.
Dutch hospitality bankruptcies ease from last year's peak
CBS data show hospitality bankruptcies fell fastest of any sector in the Netherlands this summer, even as restaurant sales outrun hotels hit by a new VAT rate.
Michelin Guide Netherlands adds nine restaurants before the gala
Erik van Loo's EVE in The Hague, Jarno Eggen's return to Drenthe and a Zwolle wine bar from the De Librije stable enter the Dutch selection weeks before the stars.
Leon Mazairac leaves Karel 5 to take over De Hoefslag
The chef who won Karel 5 its Michelin star in 2023 will run De Hoefslag with Zara Kooke from November, splitting the historic house into a brasserie and a gastronomic restaurant.
Brasserie De Hofsmid in Buren hands its kitchen to a 22-year-old
Cas Vieleers leaves his sous chef post at De Engel in Dodewaard to run the charcoal grill at an all-day brasserie backed by Edwin Muns of Brasserie Poelzicht.
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