Restaurant De Nieuwe Winkel

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Since its launch in 2011, dinner-only Restaurant De Nieuwe Winkel’s plant-based cuisine has earned it two Michelin stars and one Michelin green star, thanks to the forward-looking ethos behind its botanically inspired fine dining. Why plant based? “Because avoiding meat and dairy is the single biggest way to make both us and the planet healthier,” says its dynamic chef, Emile van der Staak, who was born in the southern Netherlands and moved to Amsterdam in 2000 after training in Eindhoven. The restaurant offers three- and nine-course menus, with each dish – many of which showcase experimental preservation techniques – designed to tell a story. Ingredients include a smorgasbord of herbs, grains, roots, edible flowers and nuts, most of which come from the six-acre Ketelbroek Food Forest in nearby Groesbeek. Signatures include the seaweed and algae - a brilliant blue broth made with two different kinds of foraged seaweed - and chestnut satay made with 48-hour-fermented chestnuts cubed, skewered, glazed and cooked over fire.

Key Information

• Average price per person $190
• Dinner: Tues – Sat
• 31243225093
• Visit Restaurant De Nieuwe Winkel's Website

Location

Gebroeders van Limburgplein, Njimegen-Centrum, Nijmegen, Gelderland, 6511 BW