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Like a Local is a sited developped by fellow Dutchman in order to accomodate the traveler who wants to enjoy the real couleure locale (French for local circumstances).
You can search for accomodation. You can find locals who are willing to take you on a city tour or who like to offer you a meal at […]

Amsterdam - Restaurant Freud: Mad Dish

If you don’t make a reservation, it may become a Madhouse!

Amsterdam - Restaurant Freud: Front

Their motto is aptly chosen, if you don’t make a reservation, chances are they are fully booked.

Amsterdam - Restaurant Freud: Interior

Unfortunately I did not have my camera with me last week when I had an excellent […]

Palais de Versailles

Dinner?
On September 17 there will be another Epicurean happening: The US $ 30,000.- pp Dinner of the Chefs. A gastronomic experience, bringing together 38 Michelin stars (16 three stars donated chefs) in the Palais de Versaille.
On arrival at the airport in Paris, the sixty guests will be shuttled in their own limousine to […]

I wasn’t aware it is almost completely new, at least for The Netherlands, as it appears it was available earlier in the USA, in Taiwan and in France: The Heineken 5 Liter DraughtKeg.
We hosted a party last Monday and someone took a cooled Heineken 5 L DraughtKeg with him and installed it. I noted the […]

It took me some time to vote for the Travvies, mainly because I carefully inspected all the finalists and also the nominees, because methodically as I sometimes am, I wanted to know whether I missed something. The reading took me to some lists of travel writers and also to the 2007 Bloggies and found there […]

Dutch have a name to lose in Design.
I’ll start the series Dutch Design with FG Stijl. The F comes from Finegan and the G from Glintmeijer.
Colin Finnegan (1968), a British native with a British degree in interior design, lives and works in Amsterdam for over 16 years and formed a partnership with Gerard Glintmeijer in […]

The Northern Ireland newspaper Irish News -I must say I don’t like their policy of hiding their news behind a mandatory subscription- published a restaurant review back in 2000 by a renowned restaurant critic Caroline Workman.
The review criticized the quality of food and drink, the staff and the smoky atmosphere of the restaurant. On a […]

When clicking on the official and worthwhile site of Baron Philippe de Rothschild S.A. you are elegantly welcomed by Baroness Philippine herself.
The story:
HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES ILLUSTRATES THE LABEL OF CHATEAU MOUTON ROTHSCHILD 2004
Each year since 1945 the Mouton label has been illustrated with an original artwork by […]

I believe hoteliers without interest in food and beverage do not exist. However my problem this month is there is happening so much in Dutch (language) food and restaurant world, that I will never be able to translate any or all fast and efficient enough:

Dutch Gault Millau “guide” released, now in glossy format,
Dutch […]

I have come to translating posts from the other (Dutch) »Weblog from June, 2004 up to June, 2006 and will continue translating, but so much is happening that I have to continue posting in real time and slow down the translating.

No better restart than with this Spanish »Luxury Collection Hotel Marqués De Riscal in […]

In May Job Cohen, the mayor of Amsterdam has officially opened the totally renovated »Eden Rembrandt Square Hotel. It has a 4 star Dutch hotel classification and 166 rooms and suites. Brasserie Flo is its restaurant, which shortly after its opening got high notes from Johannes van Dam, the Amsterdam restaurant reviewer. The dark brown/light […]

After »Haagsche Suites (Suites of The Hague) that opened 29th September 2002 and after »Maison le Dragon in Bruge, we now see a new Dutch small all suite hotel initiative in Ouderkerk a/d Amstel, just outside of Amsterdam. Ouderkerk is bording on the small Amstel river from which Amsterdam derived its name: The Dam in […]

Special Bite is a Dutch site in Dutch as well as in English with many tips about hot restaurants in The Netherlands. It offers also some guest reviews. Tips are organized by Dutch city/province.