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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 list awards go short as often as long
Restaurant ML in Haarlem wins the Gold Star for the Netherlands' best short wine list, proof that forty well-chosen bottles can out-argue four hundred.
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.
Zeeland's mussel harvest hits a 30-year low, oysters hold firm
A wet 2024 cut the Oosterschelde's mussel crop by a third, CBS figures show. The region's oyster beds, grown in the same water, barely noticed the difference.
Restaurant Robuust reopens in an 1850 café near Vollenhove
After nine years in the centre of Vollenhove, the Pot brothers have moved their kitchen into a former stable on the dike: 50 seats, a chef's table for 16, tasting menu from €65.
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.
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