One of my favorite beach clubs to go to in Noordwijk. Great location directly on the beach with…read morenice views of the North Sea. Reservations are recommended to avoid disappointment for busy weekend nights and Sunday brunch. Food menu items regularly change and are of high quality and well prepared. Today's breakfast was great as usual and the portions are well sized and attractively priced; especially considering the location. In the summer the location has a great outside terrace with ample seating on lounge chairs, benches and deckchairs. For dinner their steaks are great; grilled on a charcoal grill and served on a wooden plank. Beer and wine selection is good. Prices are moderate and the place is frequented by a hip crowd.

Fantastic place to have dinner with great friends in The Netherlands. Drinks and food are superb…read more Try the very grainy bread first. We shared an appetizer with fish, meats, vegetables. Excellent. My fish was presented "whole" and called "dorade" or sea bream. So well prepared: simple and firm. It came with local vegetables and some french fries. The ambiance is relaxed, cool and hip! Lots of great music and beautiful, blond people! The views are just stunning, because the restaurant is on the beach, so you can watch the sea and wild waves. We saw spectacular clouds and sunset.

From the owner: Het elfde gebod is: Gij zult genieten! Ongedwongen genieten: dat doet u bij Grand Café 't Elfde…read moreGebod. Elke dag een High Tea at Sea, heerlijke nieuwe gerechten op onze vernieuwde menukaart en niet te vergeten: een terras met spectaculair zeezicht.

Lovely restaurant close to the water. Service was amazing. After a long day, we were treated by a…read morefriendly and knowledgeable server who made the meal special. Our table had wine and beer with dinner. I had the seafood Lenten special and ot was delicious. A nice mix of seafood with a wonderful cream sauce. Definitely would order again. The table shared a piece of cheesecake for dessert. Also delicious. A great spot for a cozy meal in comfortable surroundings.

Well worth a try - Service was very nice (thank you Peter),…read morecourteous, attentive and not over bearing - and with good recommendations. Atmosphere was also very nice for local restaurant in a small town - cozy and very comfortable with nice decor. The food was equally good - I only tried the salmon on crostini (they were out of the tar tar) which was nice - could possibly benefit from a light sauce but it was fine. The fish of the day was a flaky white fish (don't remember the local name) similar to sea perch or small sea bass. Nice presentation and was complimented with the house Chardonnay (from Chile). Would recommend the restaurant and would not hesitate to eat there again.

If you're craving genuine, heartwarming Dutch comfort food near Leidseplein, The Pantry is the real…read moredeal. The space is quaint, cozy, and feels like stepping straight into a classic Dutch living room. If it's your first time or you just want a bit of everything, the stamppot combination plate is unbeatable. Getting to sample all three traditional mashes--hutspot, boerenkool, and zuurkool--paired with a juicy smoked sausage or traditional Dutch meatball is pure comfort on a plate. The Erwtensoep (Dutch pea soup) served with rye bread and smoked bacon is rich, thick, and incredible on a cool afternoon. Start off with the bitterballen or Dutch shrimp croquettes to share while you wait. Service is super friendly, welcoming, and effortlessly switches between languages without missing a beat. Because the dining room is small and intimate, it fills up remarkably fast--booking a table online in advance is essential, especially if you're aiming for dinner. A total gem for proper, unpretentious Dutch cuisine!

Booked a table for two at The Pantry. Completely dissatisfied with the dining experience. We…read morearrived five minutes before our reservation time. We felt like if we had been just a minute late, our table would have been given to someone else. Head Server rushed us to a table. The tables were packed like sardines in a can...barely enough room to sit down. Head server reminded us that we have only an hour and a half time slot for dinner. We then waited 20 minutes before another server took our orders, appetizer took another 20 minutes to be served. We didn't get our main dishes until an hour into our dining time slot. Because The Pantry crowds diners so tightly together, the place is extremely loud...so loud that I felt I like I was part of the adjoining tables' conversations. We could not hear eachother. It was impossible to hold a conversation. It was school cafeteria loud. We were unable to talk about the day and enjoy our meals...the noise was too distracting. Our food was nothing special. It tasted just ok. We expected it to taste better. The sauerkraut tasted pickled...like out of a jar. The red cabbage was overly sweet. The stew had only four chunks of beef. Overall, the food didn't taste fresh made. My wife could have cooked a better dinner at home. When visiting a new country, one expects better food (quality and taste) for 60 Euro. Not sure why other patrons line up to eat here. We will not return to The Pantry.

Adorable, handsome unique tower on the water; there is a pier behind the tower to view the…read moreentirety. There is a bar in the first floor that serves "The Heinekenbier" among others, and the restaurant on the 3rd floor descends back to the 2nd and is totally medieval in design, reached by tight winding brick staircase in the monkey tower.

My wife and I visited De Hoofdtoren mainly because of the novelty of eating inside a 1600s gate…read morehouse that used to be on the south sea (now on a lake). Turns out the food is really excellent and the service is friendly. They had just launched a new menu when we paid a visit and the sandwiches for lunch were delicious, though not exactly filling. Probably an appropriate serving size. The view from the small windows isn't too expansive, but the atmosphere is still very nice. We'd definitely skip the street level restaurants to dine here again.

I taught this was the best restaurant of 'Hotel van Oranje' but maybe we had our expectations up…read moretoo high after restaurant Oriento. We took a four course Asparagus menu. Unfortunately they completely messed up the first course, the second course was not really our taste, the main course and desert were really good luckily. I should say I give them credit for admitting that they forgot some of the ingredients in the first course but still they did nothing to make it good. I have enjoyed better menus for 150€ (for 2 inclusive wine and apero). We left the restaurant slightly disappointed. Service here was good as well but not as good as in Oriento. Fun thing about this restaurant is that many dishes seem to be prepared next to your table, unfortunately none of the asparagus menu.

From the owner: 'Vernieuwend, fris en toch vertrouwd.' Onze chef-kok geeft een speelse 'Touch of Dutch' aan de…read moreduurzame, dagverse streekproducten. U krijgt verrassende gerechten voor een vriendelijke prijs. En het allerleukste: door de open keuken kunt u zelf meekijken hoe er elke dag een ander Menu du Chef wordt gemaakt.

For the quality of restaurants normally found in Leiden, this one is rather excellent. All the food…read moreis fresh, well-prepared, and full of flavour. The restaurant itself has a nice welcoming atmosphere, even though the waiters and plate settings would indicate that it's rather stiff-upper-lip, the clientelle is relaxed and everyone is welcome. I would only give a few dings for the following things: (1) The service - yes, I know I should not complain of the service in the Netherlands, but I can't help myself. The waitress told us that as per the concept, they recommend ordering one 'small' bite, two 'medium' ones and one 'large' one. Setting aside the fact that this is actually an outrageous amount of food for one person, when our group of 4 proceeded to not follow the 'recommendation' and order haphazard amounts of everything from different parts of the menu, the waitress clearly panicked and started asking us about the order in which things should we served. We told her to essentially figure it out herself and were rewarded with fairly haphazard serving order in return. (2) Odd flavour combinations - while some dishes were absolutely delicious (like the classic Asperges a la flamande), others where they clearly tried to experiment were frighteningly bad. In particular the 'food shot' (served in a shot glass) of diced cervelat salami served with chunks of vodka jelly on top of a bed of sliced onions - this dish was not appealing in any way, shape or form. There were a few other similar clearly failed experiments and I'm not sure why they've chosen to keep them around on the menu. Other than this though, it's definitely an interesting place and worth checking out if in Leiden.