1. Café Su

Café Su by day, sushi by night. On Valkenboskade, where we have known the Sushimeisjes for ten years, one of the newest hotspots opened in early November: Café Su. In the same building where Lisa Sassen and Nicole Dessing roll sushi in the evening, you can now go during the day for Asian-inspired lunch dishes, coffee, matcha and something sweet. So no sushi, but the same energy and warmth that have made their establishment so popular for years.

The menu includes, for example, 'honey miso chicken buns' with chicken karaage, coleslaw and sweet and sour cucumber. A place where you can easily linger all day: first lunch at Su, then a quick visit to the shops on Fahrenheitstraat and Thomsonlaan, and back again at the end of the day for sushi at Sushimeisjes.

'Honey miso chicken bun'

📍Valkenboskade 622
www.cafesu.nl

2. Restaurant Houbolt

In the beautiful seventeenth-century farmhouse near Tennis Park Berg & Dal in the Bosjes van Pex, Houbolt, the new restaurant of Daan van Munster and Edmée van Zwieten de Blom, best known for the star-studded Bib Gourmand, award-winning restaurant Basaal. Here it is all about simplicity that tastes special: no meringues or fuss, but well-prepared Dutch food.

On the menu, classic dishes like hussar salad with Scheveningen smoked herring and beef cheek in pepper sauce. Inside it feels homely with the fireplace, outside the terrace is a lovely spot in summer. Next week, we'll go there for a bite to eat!

📍Daal en Bergselaan 11
www.restauranthoubolt.nl

3. Charlie's Fika

Kanelbulle, banankaka, kladdkaka, chokladbollar... Charlie Ter Burg's Swedish pastries are beloved in The Hague. Previously, you could taste them in a small café in the back of ice cream parlour BitterKoud in the Benoordenhout, but now Charlie is starting her own shop at 142 Goudsbloemlaan. Half Swedish and 20 years old, Charlie started Charlie's Fika out of her love for the Swedish tradition of fika: the moment for coffee and something sweet, a pause that connects people and invites them to pause for a moment.

Everything is made by herself, partly from old family recipes that her mother collected in Sweden, and partly from her own recipes that she continues to develop daily. She opens on Wednesday 19 November, so it's almost time to taste the Swedish delicacies for yourself.

📍Goudsbloemlaan 142
www.charliesfika.com

4. Italo Disco

Soon the doors will swing open at Italo Disco on Zeestraat 100 and we are curious to see exactly what will happen. What do you picture at an italo disco? Think glitter, a disco ball and maybe a good dose of pasta and pizza vibes. The disco ball is already hanging there, and soon they will also be serving coffee and sandwiches with dough that is a crossover between pizza and focaccia. Keep an eye on them on Instagram, we're curious!

📍Zeestraat 100
www.italodisco.shop

5. Baytna Cafe

On Piet Heinstraat, Tatjana Sharif opened a Palestinian lunchroom that invites you to taste, talk and pause for a moment. Her dishes are traditional but always given a contemporary twist: the maqluba ('upside down', a dish of rice, vegetables and meat or chicken that is flipped when served) there is classic or vegetarian, and even the falafel gets its own twist.

Tatjana largely runs the place herself and dreams of turning it into a meeting place, with poetry, book clubs and community dinners.

📍Piet Heinstraat 112
www.baytnacafe.nl