Café-Restaurant De Plantage
Mediterranean-Levantine cooking in a 19th-century conservatory
A leafy, quiet historic district of botanical gardens, the zoo and Jewish heritage.
The Plantage was laid out in the seventeenth century as a district of gardens and pleasure grounds, and it has kept that leafy, low-density calm. The Hortus Botanicus, the Artis zoo and the Wertheimpark sit within a few blocks, alongside the Portuguese Synagogue and the Jewish Cultural Quarter that carry the area's deeper history. It is the quietest of the central districts, more about a slow garden morning than nightlife. Come for the green and stay for the museums that take its memory seriously.
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Mediterranean-Levantine cooking in a 19th-century conservatory
Open-fire seasonal cooking in a monumental warehouse
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