Champagne is mostly drunk and served by the rich and famous. There are a lot of good houses (as we call them). One of the most well-known is called Bollinger. Thanks to the movies of special agent James Bond this brand became more famous. In 1929 Joseph Jacob Placide Bollinger helped to establish the house […]
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WineParis is the first great wine fair of the year; from the 12th to the 14th of February. But not only wine, also spirits, other kind of alcoholic beverages and non alcoholic wine’s and so called spirits where prensented on this international fair. But if you don’t know what you want to taste you’re completely
On the 10th of December I got the sad news of the death of Adrianus Anthonius Cornelis Duyves. He became 89 years of age. He was a famous entrepreneur in Amsterdam. In his early years he was a waiter in several important hotel-restaurants in Europe. He also was a waiter in the world famous restaurant
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Who would think that on the hills around Paris and in Paris itself were about a 100 hectare of vineyards. That was in the time of the Romans. The Romans were great wine growers in France and everywhere else. Now there’s only one small vineyard of 1 hectare you can visit. It’s located nearby Paris in
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The most impressive hall of ‘Paris Expo Porte de Versailles‘ is hall six. It’s desiged by the architect Jean Nouvel. He also designed Musée Quai Branly Paris (for ethnographical art). In front of hall six he made and eccentric mobile louver with moving text on it. Jean Nouvel is 77 years of age and he
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One of the wine-fairs I have often visited was the ‘Vinexpo’ in the area around and in the city of Bordeaux. Nowadays this exhibition takes place in Paris. The Vinexpo merged with ‘WineParis’ and it’s called now ‘WineParis and Vinexpo Paris’. For a lot of exhibitioners and professional visitors Paris is better accesible. The fair
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De afgelopen periode van covid heeft pijnlijk duidelijk gemaakt dat het voor veel horecaondernemers niet vol te houden is. Zo schreef ik een verhaal over het sluiten van het iconische Amsterdamse restaurant Haesje Claes, (Spuistraat 273-275), dat in 2020 helaas zijn deuren moest sluit. Het begon allemaal in een klein pand en is uitgegroeid tot
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In the recent period of covid new restaurants opened and old ones closed their doors. Nowadays there’s another kind of crisis, a shortage of staff. Recently chef Peter Lute (about 50 years old) was asked by the Dutch furniture compagny ‘Co van der Horst’, to start a new restaurant on the 26th floor in the
Restaurants komen en gaan, zeker tijdens de coronacrisis en ook nu nog. Vooral omdat er bijna overal een tekort aan goed personeel is. Onlangs werd chef-kok Peter Lute (rond de 50) door de eigenaren van het meubelbedrijf Co van der Horst gevraagd om in het nieuwe gebouw aan de Beethovenstraat 305 op de 26ste verdieping
Restaurants zijn er in Amsterdam in overvloed; van heel goed tot veel te duur en heel matig. Betaalbaar en goed zijn er al een stuk minder. De broers Caron, Tom en David zijn samen met Julian Louw en Martijn Wolff eigenaar van vier restaurants in Amsterdam: ‘Café Caron’ https://cafecaron.nl ‘Petit Caron’ https://petitcaron.nl ‘Cantine de Caron’
