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The self-styled nouveau kroeg: bitterballen under the counter, coq au vin and bavette on top, noon to midnight, no bookings.
Tim Werners and Natalie Kouwen, both ex-BAUT, searched the city for the right room before landing on the Lindengracht in early 2024 and calling what they made a nouveau kroeg. The idea is simple and surprisingly rare: a café where you can drink a beer at the bar at three in the afternoon, and where the same bar will serve you steak tartare, potato croquettes with mustard mayo or a whole coq au vin at nine. The current card runs from small things at 5 to 14 euro, olives, bread and butter, braadworst with piccalilly mayo, mackerel rillette, to four big plates: ravioli with aubergine, coq au vin at 25, cod with artichoke and crab hollandaise at 24 and a bavette with marrow and beurre Café de Paris at 26. Butter cake and advocaat close it out. The room is warm rather than brown, with a proper bar, and the terrace on the Lindengracht is one of the Jordaan's better places to lose a Saturday after the market. Your Little Black Book covered the opening in April 2024 and Het Parool reviewed it the same year, praising the coq au vin. No reservations, which is part of the point; go early on market days.
Open Monday to Saturday 12:00 to midnight, Sunday to 22:00, no reservations. Saturday lunch after the Lindengracht market is the classic visit. Order the potato croquettes, the steak tartare and one big plate to share.
What to order
Full menu- Bavette met oerpeen, merg en beurre Café de Paris€26
The big plate to share; the marrow butter is the reason it costs what it costs.
- Coq au vin€25
The dish Het Parool singled out; a whole leg, properly braised.
- Steak tartare€14
Hand-cut, the best of the small plates for a bar seat.
- Braadworst met piccalilly-mayo€10
The kroeg half of the nouveau kroeg, made in house.
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