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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.
Michelin Guide Netherlands adds eight new restaurants
Sichuan cooking on the Rokin, a sake bar in the Rivierenbuurt and six regional kitchens enter the Dutch selection four weeks before the ceremony in Maastricht.
Sidney Schutte opens The Gym in Amsterdam in November
The former gymnasium next to The College Hotel becomes an a la carte dining room, two months later than the date given when the project was announced in May.
The country still has one three-star. It is not in Amsterdam.
De Librije kept the highest rating in the Dutch guide at the October ceremony in Maastricht, months after the death of Jonnie Boer. Twenty-one years at the top, and the address is still Zwolle.
Inter Scaldes is rebuilding, one star short of where it was
Two years after the sale and the refit, Jeroen and Sanne Achtien hold two stars in Zeeland. What is on the plate now, and what the third would take.
Twenty-three green stars, and only eight of them shine twice
Sustainability now has its own scoreboard in the Dutch guide. Most of the kitchens on it hold no regular star at all, and that is the interesting part.
What a tasting menu actually costs to put on a table
Eight courses, four people in the kitchen, two in the room. We walked one Amsterdam restaurant through its own numbers, line by line.
Amsterdam has the most stars. Zwolle has the last word.
There are 122 starred restaurants in the country and the capital holds more of them than anywhere else. Yet the only three-star sits two hours east. We mapped the whole selection to work out where the Dutch map of flavour really runs.
Dutch wine lists are not getting shorter, just sharper
Rotterdam sommelier Taco de Vos just won Gold for the country's best short list. His own restaurant won the prize for the best long one a year earlier.
North Sea in September, sole up and plaice under question
Sole advice is up 16.4% for 2026, skippers say the plaice numbers do not match the nets, and Zeeland mussels are back after the worst season of the century.
Restaurant openings worth a train ticket this autumn
Names, dishes and prices from five kitchens opening outside the Randstad this season, from a returning three-star chef in Apeldoorn to a Greek taverna in Breda.
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