Cuisine:

• Dutch
• Contemporary

De Kas Description:
The concept is simple but exacting: raise your own boutique produce in an attached greenhouse, buy local meats from the finest purveyors, then put it all together in a five-course prix-fixe, you-get-what-we're-serving menu (€lunch 32.50, dinner €44.50). Oh, and toss in exemplary, highly sophisticated service and a serene greenhouse-warehouse interior. The setting itself is a story---chef Gert Jan Hageman just couldn't allow the 1926-era municipal nursery to be destroyed, so with the help of friends and the city, he set to work to make it one of the city's most celebrated restaurants. Weather permitting, take your appetizer in the herb garden before retiring to the Piet Boon-designed dining room. Always changing, the menu may begin with house-made bread paired with an intensely basil-pumped olive oil, then move to tiny lobsters dabbed with a trio of sauces, one a burstingly vibrant green pea. Then, perhaps, a veal chop accompanied by an array of just-picked baby vegetables, the evening culminating in an elegant cheese plate and tiny Dutch cookies, chocolates and fruit gelées. For an extra splurge, you may dine inside the kitchen at the chef's table, available to groups of four for €125 including wine.


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