Want to make your own tea with fresh herbs, fruit and flowers? Then join one of the high teas in PlukTea’s tea garden in Boskoop, the Netherlands. You wil learn how to make great tasting tea, how you use herbs, and which flavours mix well together. Read more »
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Eetatelier in Houten
Eetatelier Houten is renowned for their creative dishes and unique atmosphere. It is a special place: a group of trained restaurant personnel, people with a developmental and/or intellectual disability, and their stewards work together to give you a relaxing and tastebud tingling evening. Read more »
Cuisinerie Mensinge in Roden
At the Cuisinerie Mensinge in Roden, in the north of the Netherlands, the most important ingredients are the organically grown local products. The traditional kitchen serves refined dishes with an excellent price to quality ratio. Everything is made in house up to and including the chocolate bonbons, which you can definitely taste. Head chef Harro Coster and hostess Anouk Folkerts actively seek out organic ingredients. Read more »
Hotel and Brasserie de Zwaan in Venray
The kitchen of de Zwaan in Venray, the Netherlands, is a spontaneous kitchen. Influenced by flavours from the four corners of the globe. On your plate you are treated to a culinary trip around the world. Crossing borders without losing sight of its roots, the French and Dutch kitchen. The stars of the show are the locally sourced ingredients, sustainable and organic. Read more »
Foodie trip in Lund
After an interesting visit to Kulturen in Lund we’re ready for some food hiking! We made a pure foodie tour in Lund and explored the most delicious foodie shops. Most of the deli’s are located on the Klostergatan street. And as in most Swedish cities (like we saw in Stockholm and Gothenburg), there is a Saluhallen in Lund. Read more »
Café Vooruit in Ghent
Café “Vooruit”, located in a large eclectic building that used to be the center of the local socialist movement, is a very relaxed meeting place with a unique outdoor terrace. They serve organic, local and fair trade products and have veggie dishes of the day. Read more »
La Placita Salt Shop in Bonaire
La Placita Salt Shop in Bonaire offers table salt, bath/beauty products and other specialty items from Bonaire’s famous salt plants. It’s an exclusive Bonaire product for which more than 20% of the island is used for the production. Read more »
Saveurs d’ici et d’ailleurs in Marche-en-Famenne
The restaurant Saveurs d’ici et d’ailleurs serves a delicious and healthy lunch menu with as many local ingredients as possible. We enjoyed the veggie salad with lots of nuts and fruit. Some products are organic, but the origin or the ‘terroir’ is even more important. The owners are part of a co-op and find it important that the ingredients have local or regional origins. They also run a small shop which sells organic and fair trade coffee and tea, juices and herbal teas. One of the owners even designed the interior of the lunchroom and the furniture himself. Read more »
Chocolate factory Defroidmont in Erezée
We love chocolate. Let me say that again. We love chocolate! And of course we prefer the cocoa to be fair trade and organic. Artisanal chocolate factory Defroidmont in Erezée makes their chocolate in a factory that is visible through the shop. Next door to the chocolate factory and shop they also have a museum where you can learn about the origin of the cocoa beans. Did you know cocoa beans consist of cocoa butter and cocoa mass? And that for making white chocolate only cocoa butter, powdered milk and sugar are used? Read more »
Ecoplan Ghent
The organic city guide makes it really easy to find pure addresses in Ghent. Available at the Tourist Information and participants, and online at ecoplan.be.