Amsterdam Culinair 2005 - part II

Amsterdam, June 2 - 2005

Hallowie, For all you people out there, yes again this is about food & beverage, but he ... who can blame me. Today we should go to the opening of Amsterdam Culinair 2005. Unfortunately the three gentlemen couldn't make it (one forgotten, one business excuse and a sprained ankle) well sorry guys, Ninke and I went for it, and to humor you guys this is what we had ....

We started off with champagne, I know it's not my favourite but ... Of course visit our host first, Sanday's the new sandwich shop in town, watch out for them, it's good, different than you use to get and incredible tastefull.


And than it was time to get our first course .... croquette de crevette by Restaurant Dorrius, If you want to taste the real Old Dutch culinary delights, you should pay a visit to restaurant Dorrius. You will get to know the delicious Dutch cuisine, which has made our restaurant world-famous since 1890, in a typically Old Dutch atmosphere. Almost the best I've ever tasted ... delicious!

Website : http://www.dorrius.nl



The next course was by Blender. I've never been there but someone told me to visit the place, so we did ... we both had duck combines with a duck mousse on toast and rucola salad ... divine taste, need to go there soon, so any of you been there, let me know and say what I need to try from the menucard.

Website : http://www.blender.to


So now we needed a stiff drink as well so we went to Restaurant Local ... we took a Caipirinha, you know the drink made from Cachaca



And that was a good choice, lovely ... shaken not stirred !

We had a perfect match with it, a sate of rib-eye, a sate of lamb and a sate of ostrich combined with three very well made sauces and turkish bread ... Never been here as well. You were there, let me know and say what I need to choose, the food was perfect so ... I'm anxious to here about this restaurant. We took an espresso from Rombouts .... and had a lovely evening also without the three "losers"

Well gentlemen you missed a very well organised and entertaining, food & beverage evening.

Till we eat again ... sleep tight - kiss Paul