Trump card: comfortable food at a high level

Writing chef and editor-in-chief Tom Kellerhuis visited restaurant Troef in Amsterdam, where chef Raymond Plat was named the new eel ambassador last week.

One of the newest treasures in our rich culinary capital is restaurant Troef at Schollenbrugstraat 8. Secret tip is no longer the right word here, because without a reservation on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday you can hardly get a table here, so popular now. , more than a year after opening. ‘Uncomplicatedly delicious, but at a high level,’ wrote culinary journalist Mara Grimm at the beginning of the summer last year. Het Parool and rewarded the new business with a well-deserved 8.5.

Chef Raymond Plat runs this young business, which is set up as a French brasserie, with the three catering friends Roderick Kunst and Willem Alberts from Escobar and Niels Leijssenaar, who was manager of Ron Blaauw’s restaurants for many years. The still youthful and energetic Plat himself trained at top establishments such as De Lindenhof**, De Librije*** and 212** to become an accomplished kitchen chef. The impressive influence of his last employers, Richard van Oostenbrugge and Thomas Groot (of, among others, 212**, De Juwelier*, Bistro de La Mer* and Auberge) is particularly noticeable here and on the plates. Comfortable food at a high level, in an old-fashioned cozy atmosphere with ditto tableware and silverware, and an energetic team of catering experts. And even better: you can only eat à la carte here and therefore no imposed pando with a menu devised by the chef.