Chapter 05 · Oost & Plantage · Park Frankendael

De Kas

Name: De Kas
Address: Kamerlingh Onneslaan 3, Amsterdam, 1097 DE, NL
Telephone: +31 20 462 4562
Price range: €€€€

9.1 /10How we score

Michelin-starred cooking inside the greenhouse where your dinner was picked this morning.

Every city now has a restaurant claiming its vegetables were 'harvested today'. De Kas has been making that literally true since 2001, when Gert-Jan Hageman rescued the municipal nursery's 1926 greenhouse in Park Frankendael and planted tomatoes where the city once grew its street trees. The set menu is written around whatever the gardeners cut that morning, here and at the restaurant's Beemster field, and the kitchen holds both a red Michelin star and a green one for the trouble. Meat and fish appear, but as supporting cast; the vegetable cooking is the point, and it has more swagger than most steakhouses. The room is all light and leaf, herbs growing at eye level, Frankendael's lawns beyond the glass. Weekday lunch is the smart-money move; dinner under the glowing glass is the anniversary one.

Ask for the fully vegetarian version of the menu in high summer, when the tomato course comes from metres away.

What to order

Full menu

Set lunch menu (3–5 courses)€55–76
No à la carte, ever: morning-harvested vegetables from their own greenhouse lead every course.
Set dinner menu (5–6 courses)€86–95
The weekly-changing garden menu at full stretch; goes fully vegetarian or vegan on request.
Barbecued pointed cabbage
The kind of dish Michelin cites, smoke and saffron cream, vegetables treated like the main event.