Amice

Wolf Atelier's chef duo goes a la carte: one ingredient, two preparations, prices that behave.

Fifteen years is a long apprenticeship for a co-billing. Michael Wolf and Jordy Koopmans cooked side by side at Envy and then Wolf Atelier before opening Amice, Latin for friends, in a former Thai restaurant on the quiet Noorderstraat in early March 2026. The premise is disarmingly simple: a handful of seasonal ingredients, each served in two preparations, so the tuna arrives raw with aguachile, jalapeno and kumquat or raw with red pepper and Greek yoghurt, and the white asparagus comes off the BBQ with wild garlic or folded into a risotto. Most plates sit between 14 and 24 euros, which for cooking with this pedigree qualifies as a public service. Concrete, the 212 and NENI people, did the room in warm wood, deep greens and browns, with an open kitchen you can actually talk to and a wine room where you pull your own bottle, starting at 35 euros. Early reviews are uniformly smitten, from Barts Boekje's approving nod to bloggers calling it like coming home to friends who happen to cook at fine dining level. For two, the whole sole with cockles and BBQ lemon makes the closing argument. Open until 01:00, which this corner of the Centrum quietly needed.

Order one ingredient in both preparations, that is the whole point; then pick your own bottle from the wine room. Dessert is the wentelteefje with tiramisu cream, and yes it works.

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