Wine List

What wine are we drinking in 2021?

1. Less but better Christian Griffioen of The Wine List: "A clear trend for 2021: the average price is rising, but volume is falling. In the past three years, almost 18 million fewer bottles appeared on the Dutch market. So fewer drinking occasions, but generally better wines. Good news for the...

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BOIDR eats at home: @Home Diner from Hofstede Meerzigt (Zoetermeer)

Ding dong. At the stroke of 7pm, a man wearing a mouth guard hands us a cardboard box. "Here you go, your four-course @Home Diner from Hofstede Meerzigt. Enjoy your meal." We thank him, walk into the kitchen and see what's inside. Under the elaborate instruction forms are vacuum-packed bags of contents. "Oh...

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peer house of lords

BOIDR eats at home: Christmas box House of Lords

Take a look, says my mother pointing at the big, black box with gold and silver speckles. "What a package!" It has to be, it's supposed to contain a four-course Christmas menu from exclusive caterer House of Lords. Boy, how full it is....

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handling

BOIDR eats at home: HanTing Delivery

Is this all for lunch?" Lisette Rademakers looks surprised when she sees how many bags from HanTing Delivery are on her kitchen table. "Let's open the 'Executive land box' first," I say. In a greaseproof paper lies the 'Japanese style beef sandwich' and in...

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At Us In The Residence launches first short video (for Maasstede)

We were ready for another step as a media brand: producing our first short video. Why? Because we think that this way we can highlight a brand or product even better. Maasstede For Maasstede, developer of eye-catching real estate, we made...

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New: brasserie 1640 in Zoetermeer

Opening a restaurant just after the lockdown, you just have to dare. But for Bert de Boer, his new Brasserie 1640 in Zoetermeer is an asset. Opposite restaurant Hofstede Meerzigt, the founding father of wine importer Activin runs the old 1640 farmhouse - hence the...

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Harbour Club

New restaurant in the Binckhorst

The Binckhorst, that was an urban jungle with vacant industrial buildings and here and there still a slewing crane. But at the edge, BINK36 was the promise: one day this would not be the end of the city, but the centre. That future is now in sight....

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House of Lords

What will be the food trends for this summer?

In London the other day, Raymond Talsma walked into a basement. How strange, he thought when he saw a bunch of flowers next to a framed photograph. "Just like I was at a funeral," the House of Lords caterer explains in lunchroom Vascobelo on the Denneweg. "At...

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Taat & De Reg

Anything was possible when catering was rock 'n' roll

If the stories are to be believed, there was little to do in The Hague in the 1970s and 1980s. The wild years of the pop scene were over and the residency seemed to be dozing off again in dreams of the East Indies and the fin-de-siècle. Spectacle But...

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The best wine & food spots? Wine guru Nico McGough takes us through

The journey begins in Scheveningen at Tasca. Here, the energetic Ilse Zweegers has both feet firmly on the ground behind the stove. You won't get a plate full of liflafjes but solid cuisine with a high gastronomic value. Memorable in this context was the...

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