netherlands
Stories tagged “netherlands”
Fig, orange and mascarpone, the way the kitchen does it
Six ingredients and one balance to get right. The figs have to caramelise properly and the mascarpone must not be overworked, or the dish turns into a pudding.
Hospitality staff shortage: 22,000 vacancies are on the floor
Dutch operators describe a chef shortage. The trade body's own figures say the bigger hole is in the dining room, and it is the room nobody has built a career ladder for.
Boerenkaas: what the EU raw-milk rule actually protects
A protected name that fixes neither a place nor a recipe, only where the milk came from and the fact that nobody heated it. On a trolley, that is the whole point.
What to eat in Amsterdam: 10 dishes and where to find them
Raw herring, bitterballen, kroket, appeltaart and rijsttafel: ten plates that tell you where you are, mapped to the carts, cafés and dining rooms serving them in 2026.
What to eat in Rotterdam: 9 dishes and where to find them
Kapsalon, meatballs on the Maas, Dudok's appeltaart, roti, cachupa and oysters: nine plates that tell you where you are, mapped to the snack bars, cafés and dining rooms serving them in 2026.
What to eat in Zwolle: 9 dishes and where to find them
Balkenbrij, Zwolse mosterd, sugar balletjes and a three-Michelin-star tasting menu: nine addresses for what to eat in Zwolle, with 2026 prices and hours.
Pike-perch IJsselmeer: one chef, one dish, twelve minutes
Our new short-film series watches a single dish from a single kitchen, starting with a fish that Dutch cooks treat as a luxury ingredient because it is.
Inside Rotterdam's wholesale market before the city wakes
A silent short film follows crates of vegetables, fruit and potatoes through Rotterdam's Groothandelsmarkt, hours before the public markets open.
Service follows one full dinner at Inter Scaldes
An Amuse Films short goes inside the pass at Inter Scaldes in Kruiningen, where chef Jeroen Achtien is rebuilding a kitchen one star short of where it stood.
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