When we arrived at the restaurant I thought we had come to the wrong place. Crossing the wooden bridge to the glass-walled restaurant right in the middle of a park, it was not only surrounded by grass, but greenhouses too.
No menu, no what-shall-I-have's, no fuzz. The dishes depended entirely on what was harvested that day; apart from the ultra-fresh greens, it wasn't totally vegetarian, luckily. Two types of starter came; salad and impressively juicy scallops decorated with pansy petals, so delicate that it felt almost wrong to eat it. While waiting for the main, we munched on gigantic olives that were as big as the nose.
With the raised expectations by the exotic starters, the roast/poached veal with boiled root vegetables main seemed somewhat dull.
Wine, food, more food, dessert, and more dessert. I had little idea that the best was yet to come - a pot of fresh mint leaves brew. The whole leaf swayed gently in the glass pot with its stems; the light green reflected the stars above through the glass ceiling.
There was more to it than the home-planted specialty.
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De Kas
Kamerlingh Onneslaan 3, 1097 DE Amsterdam
Set meal with wine for two: €130
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