Peter en Carina's Reisblog

zondag 19 februari 2017

A weekend in Eindhoven - dinner at Wynwood

The Intell Art hotel Eindhoven, our home for this nite (view from our window)

Saturday 18 - Sunday 19 February 2017:

Our yearly celebration of P.'s sister Saskia's Bday in a restaurant near or in Eindhoven. This year we choose Wynwood, a trendy restaurant in a former Philips warehouse, which is located in Strijp-S in Eindhoven.

We loved the area and decided to revisit soon as it has many nice small creative shops, galleries, a food hall and many restaurants.

drinks: Aperol spritz at Usine after shopping

Restaurant Wynwood (they also have a cocktail bar area where they serve small bites) gives you a choice of a Surprise menu of 4,5 ... or 9 courses, all small plates and very tasty. We opted for the 6 course menu. P. selected a bottle of white wine (and later another one) to accompany the food. We loved it: the food, the combination of tastes, the creativity of the chef, the wines, the atmosphere, the surroundings and the service - all was very good.

Restaurant and Cocktail bar Wynwood

The Food:

several appetizers and the bottle of wine P. selected; a Verdicchio Riserva,

sooo yummie

Holsteiner tartar, piccalilly with young vegetables (bottom right)

Tuna, tom ka kai sauce/soup and tomato (top right)

Monk fish (=zeeduivel), parsley root, mushrooms and truffle (left)

scallop, oxtail and celeriac hidden in a shell

next bottle of white Rueda wine

veal, chicory, Cevenne onion from the BBQ (top right)

passion fruit, blood orange and citrus (left) accompanied by a glass of dessert wine (Tokai)

coffee with several friandises & the indication of the 6 courses we had

One for the road in the bar of the hotel

Sunday, 19 February 2017:

breakfast at Usine, which is situated next door of our hotel.

Can you spot us ?

On our way home we passed Maurick castle in Vught and decided to do a detour and visit. A great place with a Michelin star restaurant and rooms to stay (maybe next time?). We had tea in the brasserie which was served in wine glasses.

It was a lovely weekend, we enjoyed muchly!

dikke kus

Carina

zondag 23 oktober 2016

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