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 :-)

Groet'n uut Grunn

Drinks after an afternoon of shopping  

Saturday, 18 July: 
A weekend trip to Grunn with our friends Femke and Gerard. 
After an afternoon of intense shopping and a few relaxing drinks at one of our favorite places in Groningen, the garden of Het Schimmelpenninck Huys, we headed for our main goal; restaurant In de Molen in Onderdendam. 
I had booked us dinner as well as the 2 apartments in the mill. The apartments are on the 1st and 2nd floor of the mill: so we only had to climb the stairs after dinner.  
It was a super dinner, great food, atmopshere, service. We enjoyed muchly and we will come back for sure. 

Restaurant In de Molen in Onderdendam 

charming Onderdendam 

smoking friends

In the restaurant:

4 amuses (appetizers); a promising start of our dinner

some of the lovely dishes of our 5 course dinner 

(also the friandises bottom right)

the awesome delicious dessert including basil ice cream and tomato coulis.

Sunday, 19 July

It rained cats and dogs. So after breakfast we decided to visit the Groninger Museum. This was a change of plan, coz initially the plan was to take a (hired) boat trip and lunch en route from the picnic basket Femke ordered from the restaurant. Shame the weather didn't cooperate.

breakfast in the morning in the restaurant

the attic of the mill (photo made by Gerard)

In the Groninger Museum:

Chinese artist Song Dong's exhibition 'Life is Art, Art is Life' '- Waste Not

A very interesting exhibition of this Chinese artist Song Dong. Especially the 'Waste Not' part on the attic of the museum was impressive. These items all came from the home of the artist's mother. Amazing what junk she collected: empty bottles, cans, shoes, clothes, you name it and it's there somewhere between the piles. 

Exhibition 'Werkman', overview of the work of this printer/painter, who was a member of De Ploeg

some of my favorite paintings from the permanent collection of the museum

When we left the museum it had stopped raining and we visited the super cheese shop De Kaaskop in the Zwanestraat, which we had spotted the day before. We stayed there for almost an hour shopping and tasting cheese. Great shop, I recommend. 

photo from website Kaaskop

Our last stop in Groningen was restaurant 't Feithhuis, a historical building where we had drinks and something to eat. 

It was a lovely weekend. 

restaurant 't Feith huis

Nothing better than Grunn - Schimmelpenninckhuys

Goodies I bought after a few hours shopping, lunch at the News Cafe  

3-4 May 2014: a weekend in Groningen:

Shopping, staying in room number 4 (the bridal room) at the Schimmelpenninckhuys hotel. Drinks in our hotel room and dinner with Wilma, our friend at restaurant 'Houdt van Eten' in De Herenstraat.

Sunday, 4 May: a visit to the Groninger museum, the exhibition 'Natural Beauty' and a lovely walk in National parque Dwingelderveld; culture and nature. Hey what more do you want ^^

Our awesome room at the Schimmelpenninck Huys hotel

 

Glass of white wine with Wilma in our consumptious room 

dinner with Wilma at Restaurant Houdt van Eten in de Herenstraat

Sunday, 4 May: culture & nature

Fra Angelico

the regular collection of the museum

paintings of De Ploeg, who were inspired by Kirchner

Marilon Manson: I ate my fingers ^^

to keep in balance - Nature: a hike at National parque Dwingelderveld  

dikke kus
Carina