Restaurant

The FFF Restaurant is led by Joris Bijdendijk, head chef at restaurant Bridges (one Michelin star) in The Grand hotel in Amsterdam. The restaurant operates according to Slow Food principles, taking into account the season, provenance, production methods and stories behind the ingredients.

 

The standard menu this year is vegetarian. The roles are thus reversed: it is not the vegetarians who have to order something ‘different’, but the meat eaters who can request something extra. This makes eating meat a conscious choice, not something that automatically appears on your plate. It is an important approach, say the chefs, because vegetables should be at the heart of what we eat. And so the menu is built around seasonal vegetables and Dutch cheeses: radishes, white asparagus, rhubarb, lentils, Gouda Farmer’s Cheese (a Slow Food presidium) and many other good, clean and fair ingredients. 

 

And the animal protein? Each year FFF chefs Samuel Levie and Joris Bijdendijk choose one ingredient they believe deserves extra attention. This year that is the male chick which, because of its gender, is worthless to the egg industry and is killed at birth. The chefs will use these cockerels, which are given the time and space to mature at Hollands Haantje, in a delicious boudin blanc sausage. Fish lovers can opt for a starter of grey mullet from the Wadden Sea. The mullet is caught by the Goede Vissers and smoked in Amsterdam at Frank’s Smoke House.

 

Dinner from 17.00 to 23.00

Menu price €32.50 (excl. wine and supplements)

Fish supplement: €3, meat supplement: €4

The restaurant does not accept reservations, so arrive in good time!