Awesome Restaurants
 

Please share any really great restaurants experiences you have had in any of the following places:

Amsterdam
Delft - (Harlaam, Rotterdam, and Hague)
Otterlo
Bruges
Ghent
Antwerp
Brussels

A place does not have to be expensive. It could just be a fun place to go. I started a post like this for the UK and got some really great suggestions.

I have yet to find a restaurant in Belgium that didn't have really good to excellent to incredible food. Holland is generally good - but you can find places that are ordinary;

If you decide to spend a day or two in the east - which is fascinating - a couple of places that we really liked when we stayed in Spa;

the Restaurant in the Manoir de Lebioles (we stayed there too - fantastic both for food and as a luxury get away) - including champagne and interesting amuse bouche in front of a huge roaring fire in the huge entrance hall (it was Sept and chilly at night)

Moderately priced Restaurant L'Auberge in the town was also excellent - all 4 of us loved each course

Sorry can't list Brugge restaurants - one of my kitties chewed up that diary

Pieter Pourbus
Pieter Pourbusstraat 1, Bruges, Belgium

Bierbrasserie Cambrinus
Philipstockstraat 19, Bruges

The Pancake Bakery near the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam is tasty. I've heard several people say there are better/cheaper places but the few random other places I tried were disappointing....

Train station stands for waffles in Belgium!

I like the Pancake Bakery too but it's not in the awesome league, it's just simple good food. It is, however, pretty representative of Dutch food. And it's been there for a really long time, at least since the 1980s, so it's stood the test of time. Yeah, I'll second them.

Lavandula