weekend Groningen: Herberg Onder de Linden - July 2017

Aduard, Friday 14 till Sunday 16 July 2017: a long weekend visiting the Michelin star restaurant Onder de Linden and moreover sleeping there for 2 nites. 
We took the bikes with us to make some tours. However, Friday it kept raining all day so we visited Groningen and did some shopping.

relaxing in the lounge 

our table on Friday evening

the awesome garden of Onder de Linden

Dinner Friday evening: superb

Saturday, 15 July 2017: it's dry, so biking time

first breakfast 

Cycling 49,7 km in the North West of Groningen

Bedum

  

Onderdendam (hey we know this place :-)

We had dinner in this restaurant and slept upstairs. 

At that time the owners were the present owners of Herberg Onder de Linden. 

  

More Onderdendam

Time for lunch (a salad)

Saaksum

   

cornfields 

Ezinge

And another awesome dinner at Herberg Onder de Linden:

amuse: mix of Italian and Japanese taste

Spoom of elderflower and passion fruit

sea bass, rettich and cucumber

wine is from Stellenbosch

Sweetbread, molo, salad etc

wine from Chile with a very French name 

pigeon, pearl barley, truffle foam and mash peas

interesting dessert wine to accompany our cheeses

les friandises

It was a lovely weekend with great food and a good cycling.

Back to Grunn - October 2016

Weekend Saturday, 22 - Sunday 23 October 2016

A weekend in Groningen: a bit of shopping, food/drinks and art; always fun to be in Groningen.

Zwanestraat: arghhh hit me like a ton of bricks ... : my all time fav shop in Groningen is closing, damn.

After shopping: relaxing with a glasss of nice wine at Schimmelpenninckhuys with a view of their terrace.

Dinner @ Eetcafe Schuitendiep, which we visited about a year ago, the quality level is still high and the price relatively low. We had their six courses menu with pairing wines. Very kind and friendly waitress. We loved it.. and hey hey we were sitting near the '(artificial) open fire place :-)'

Description of the menu:

we started with a potatoe/salmon salad with a yolk which was cooked at 65 degrees, surrounded by various vegetables

2nd course was smoked eel moussse on a bed of fresh tuna with a crispy biscuit of roasted peppers 

3rd course was pork belly with hoisin sauce and a lovely bonbon of cauliflower, sooo yummie

4th course was veal cheek (sort of pulled meat) with pumpkin and red onion

le desserts: 
5th course was a mousse of beetroot, a cake with fennel and anise, licorice jelly and ice cream made of buttermilk and beetroot

Oh well the last course (6) was complicated and the waitress was so kind to hand us a note with the ingredients, so read when you can :-)

Walking home and crossing the city we ended up at Cafe de Keyzer, which is near our hotel (the University hotel: very very basic and noisy, we won't return there) where P. had a cognac and I had a Drambui; one for the road 

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Sunday, 23 October 2016

A visit to the Groninger Museum, the 'Nieuwe Wilden' exhibition

Some snapshots of the art that impressed me in a way 

couture by Victor & Rolf

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Also on display at another floor was: Joost van den Toorn - Something to believe in:

 Walking back to the parking place: autumn is there for sure

Home: we bought this cool arty see through side table at the Groninger museum shop. It fits P.'s beer just fine :-)